Faculty

Shulamit Ran, Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music is a composer with special interest in the performance and study of contemporary music. She is also Artistic Director of Contempo (Contemporary Chamber Players). Ran's Symphony earned the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in Music and the 1992 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award. Among her awards, fellowships, and commissions are those from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund, Ford Foundation, NEA, Guggenheim Foundation, Chamber Music America, American Composers Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Koussevitsky Foundations. She served as Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1991-1997 and the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1994-1997, where her residency culminated in the premiere of her opera “Between Two Worlds (The Dybbuk). Ran is the recipient of five honorary doctorates. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003. Recording releases in 2007 of her music include “Credo/Ani Ma’amin” by the vocal ensemble Chanticleer on Warner Classics and orchestral works “Legends” with the Chicago Symphony conducted by Daniel Baremboim and Violin Concerto on Albany Records. Teaching at Chicago since 1973.

Office: Goodspeed 401
Phone: (773) 702-3072
E-mail: sran@uchicago.edu

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