Shulamit Ran

Shulamit Ran (Hebrew: שולמית רן; born October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her the Pulitzer Prize for Music.[1][2][3] She was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first being Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1983. Ran was a professor of music composition at the University of Chicago from 1973 to 2015. She has performed as a pianist in Israel, Europe and the U.S., and her compositional works have been performed worldwide by a wide array of orchestras and chamber groups.

  1. ^ Herman, Kenneth (November 12, 1991). "Fame Comes a Piece at a Time : Music: Although composer Shulamit Ran was virtually unknown on the West Coast before she won the Pulitzer, the prize has not diminished her pride in being out of step". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
  2. ^ Kozinn, Allan (April 11, 1991). "Composer's Pulitzer Makes the Telephone Her New Instrument". The New York Times. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  3. ^ Green, Judith (May 17, 1998). "A song of instability, possibility in Vessels of Courage and Hope, composer Shulamit Ran recalls a Baltimore ship's role in the founding of Israel". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved June 1, 2015.