Composer, Aspen Music Festival
Alberto Vilar Fellow - Class of Spring 2002
George Tsontakis’ is Composer-in-Residence with the Oxford (England) Philomusica and the Aspen Music Festival. Recent CDs include the acclaimed Four Symphonic Quartets, with James DePreist and Orchestra Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, and pianist Stephen Hough’s monumental recording of Ghost Variations was nominated for a Grammy. Tsontakis’s current commissions feature works for the Baltimore, National and Dallas symphonies and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. String Quartet No.4 and Perpetual Angelus (orchestra) were both winners of Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, and he received the American Academy’s prestigious award for “lifetime achievement” in 1995.