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First name: Kevin
Last name: Puts
Dates: 1972
Category: Doublebass
Nationality: American
Opus name: Quintet (2006)
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Peculiarities: http://www.kevinputs.com/program/quintet.html
Information: Composers website: http://www.kevinputs.com/ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera. Puts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Alma, Michigan. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman School of Music. Among his teachers were Samuel Adler, Jacob Druckman, David Lang, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and, in piano, Nelita True. He also studied at the Tanglewood Music Festival with William Bolcom and Bernard Rands. He is composer-in-residence at the Fort Worth Symphony and has received a commission from the Aspen Music Festival. His Cello Concerto was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma. Puts's works have been performed by the St. Louis Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Utah Symphony (with Evelyn Glennie as percussion soloist), the Miró Quartet, and Concertante. He is a frequent composer in residence at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, which commissioned his fourth symphony and his flute concerto.