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Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw is an American composer, singer, and violinist awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for her a capp...

American Contemporary Vocal Chamber

8.5 Great

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John Corigliano

John Corigliano is an American composer of contemporary classical music, known for his symphonic, chamber, and operatic...

Music Opera American Contemporary

8.1 Great

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William Bolcom

William Bolcom is an American composer and pianist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1988 for his "Twelve New Etud...

Opera American Contemporary Piano

8.1 Great

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George Crumb

George Crumb was an American contemporary composer recognized for his avant-garde style, atmospheric textures, and explo...

American Contemporary Chamber Mystical

8.0 Great

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George Benjamin

George Benjamin is a British composer and conductor born in 1960. He studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and Alexa...

Music Opera Contemporary Orchestral

7.8 Good

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Missy Mazzoli

Missy Mazzoli is an American composer recognized for her contributions to contemporary classical music, particularly in...

Opera American Contemporary Accessible

7.8 Good

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Jennifer Higdon

Jennifer Higdon is an American composer of contemporary classical music whose catalog includes orchestral, chamber, chor...

Music American Contemporary Accessible

7.5 Good

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Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann is a German composer, clarinetist, and conductor born in 1973. His catalog includes orchestral, chamber, vo...

German Opera Contemporary Chamber

7.4 Good

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George Walker

George Walker was an American composer and pianist whose music includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, and solo piano works...

Music American Contemporary Orchestral

7.4 Good

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Joan Tower

Joan Tower, born in 1938, is an American composer whose catalog includes orchestral, chamber, piano, and wind-band music...

Music American Contemporary Orchestral

7.3 Good

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Zhou Long

Zhou Long is a Chinese-American composer born in 1953 whose output includes opera, orchestral music, chamber works, and...

Opera Contemporary Chamber Cross Cultural

7.1 Good

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Aulis Sallinen

Aulis Sallinen (born 1935) is a Finnish composer whose catalogue includes seven operas, eight symphonies, concertos, cha...

Symphony Opera Contemporary Chamber

6.8 Fair

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Charles Wuorinen

Charles Wuorinen was an American composer, conductor, and pianist who lived from 1938 to 2020. His music often uses seri...

Complex American Contemporary Serial

6.6 Fair

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Nico Muhly

Nico Muhly is an American composer whose work belongs broadly to the contemporary classical tradition. He writes for orc...

Music Opera American Contemporary

6.4 Fair

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Pawel Mykietyn

Paweł Mykietyn is a Polish composer of contemporary classical music. His output includes chamber music, orchestral works...

Opera Polish Contemporary Film

6.4 Fair

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Augusta Read Thomas

Augusta Read Thomas is an American composer whose catalogue includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, and instrumental music....

Music American Contemporary Lyrical

6.3 Fair

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Kevin Puts

Kevin Puts is an American composer whose catalog includes opera, orchestral music, chamber works, and concert vocal musi...

Music Opera American Contemporary

6.2 Fair

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Luca Francesconi

Luca Francesconi is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, born in Milan in 1956. He studied with Azio Cor...

Music Opera Italian Contemporary

5.9 Mediocre

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Beat Furrer

Beat Furrer is a Swiss-Austrian composer known for contemporary music that explores complex textures, spatial placement,...

Austrian Opera Complex Contemporary

5.8 Mediocre

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Michael Gordon

Michael Gordon is an American contemporary composer and a co-founder of Bang on a Can, an organization and collective as...

American Contemporary Rock Influenced Downtown

5.6 Mediocre