Melinda Wagner Gr'86
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Melinda Wagner was born in Philadelphia in 1957. She received her graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania where she studied with Richard Wernick, George Crumb, Shulamit Ran and Jay Reise. Ms. Wagner’s music has been performed by the Chicago Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Society of New Music and other leading organizations. Ms. Wagner is the recipient of numerous honors, including an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Howard Foundation (Brown University), three ASCAP Young Composer Awards and resident commissions from the Barlow Foundation, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the Fromm Foundation (Harvard University). Melinda Wagner’s orchestral composition, Falling Angels, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and premiered in 1993, was performed by the American Composers Orchestra in 1995, and again by the CSO in 1996 under the AT&T American Encore series. In 1999, Ms. Wagner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion. Melinda Wagner’s compositions are published by Theodore Presser and her Sextet (1989) has been released on the Opus One label.