Artists' Fellowship - 1988
Music Composition
Artist Statement:
1) "Mercurial Etudes" - 14 min. for solo flute; 2) "String Quartet #4" - 28 min.; 3) "Overtura Vera" - 9 min. orchestral work. A rich year, but trying, exhausting, unsettling. However, my work grew.
More about the Artist:
George Tsontakis received the 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for his Violin Concerto No. 2. Previously, he was honored with the American Academy’s prestigious award for lifetime achievement in 1995, and the 2002 Berlin Prize (Alberto Vilar Fellowship). He served as Composer-in-Residence with the Oxford (England) Philomusica from 1998-2002. His works have been performed throughout the U.S. and in many European countries in such venues as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall, London’s Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, Oxford’s Sheldonian, Radio France, Auditorium Bank de Luxembourg, Athens' Megharon and Oslo’s Gamle Logen.
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