Before graduating, Michael Hersch became one of the youngest composers ever awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music in 1997.
Performer Biography
Marin Alsop, the conductor, studied at Yale and the Juilliard School, and won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize at Tanglewood, where she studied with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Michael Hersch's music is characterized by extreme shifts in dynamics and texture, often searing in effect, and can rise to multiple forte only to quickly drop to an intimate whisper.
Performer Biography
Marin Alsop, the conductor on this album, selected Michael Hersch as the First Prize winner of the American Composer Awards the year before he received his Guggenheim Fellowship.
Composer Biography
Michael Hersch, the composer, discovered his desire to compose at almost nineteen years old after his brother Jamie, a gifted horn player, convinced him to listen to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
Recording & Production
This album features the world première recordings of all the works by Michael Hersch.
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