Ten-time American Prize winner Douglas Knehans (b. 1957) has received awards from the American Music Center, the NEA, the Australia Council Performing Arts Board, Yale University, the MacDowell Colony, Opera Australia, The Cannes Film Festival, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The National Symphony Orchestra, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Meet the Composer, and a host of others.
His music has been praised by The Washington Post as “beautiful” and that “tells an exciting story;” by The New Yorker,saying “the sounds of nature course through the orchestral pieces... with a primitive force and melodic insistence that recall Stravinsky.” by The Australian as “brilliantly catchy and eerily bright;” and by Fanfare Magazine as “…astonishingly visceral… and hauntingly beautiful.”
Knehans’ music is available on ERM Media, Crystal Records, Move Records, New World Records, Naxos Records, and ABLAZE Records labels. His work is published by Donemus Publishers, Netherlands. He is the Norman Dinerstein Professor of Composition Scholar at the University of Cincinnati's famed College-Conservatory of Music whose department of composition is ranked in the top ten of all US conservatories.
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