Paul Moravec, recipient of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music, has composed more than a hundred works in the orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film, and operatic genres. His music has earned numerous other distinctions, including the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, as well as many prestigious commissions. In many ways, Moravec's work builds upon ‘The Great Tradition’ of Western Europe, reconfiguring some of its bedrock gestures into an aesthetic that is thoroughly of our day. Dubbed a ‘New Tonalist’ by critic Terry Teachout, Moravec writes with depth but does so with a light touch.

He is regularly sought out by leading performing artists and ensembles, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe Opera, the American Brass Quintet, violinist Hilary Hahn, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Ying Quartet, cellist Matt Haimovitz, Trio Solisti, and Opera Omaha.

A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University, he has taught at Columbia, Dartmouth, and Hunter College and currently holds the special rank of University Professor at Adelphi University. In 2006-07, he was Composer-in-Residence at Mannes College of Music, and in 2007-08, he served as Artist-in-Residence with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. [official website]