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George Tsontakis
12+ albums
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George Tsontakis (born Astoria, Queens, New York City, October 24, 1951) is an American composer and conductor of Greek descent. . Tsontakis studied composition with Hugo Weisgall and Roger Sessions at the Juilliard School from 1974 to 1978, and later with Franco Donatoni at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. His music has been performed and broadcast by major orchestras, chamber ensembles, and festivals throughout North and South America, Europe and Japan. Tsontakis was honored with the "Academy Award" in 1995 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was the fourth recipient of the coveted Ives Living Fellowship, in 2007. Pianist Stephen Hough's recording of Tsontakis's Ghost Variations on Hyperion Records was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition, and was the only classical recording among Time magazine's 1998 Top Ten Recordings. Tsontakis received the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin in 2002, and the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for his Violin Concerto No. 2 in 2005. A proficient conductor of orchestral and choral music, Tsontakis has been a composer-in-residence with the Aspen Music Festival and conductor and the founding director of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music School, where he teaches composition. He was an assistant professor at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, and has served on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. He is
top songs
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Unforgettable: III. Ballade
2282Sonnets: No. 3, Sonnet 60 "Like As the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore"
15633 Sighs, 3 Variations: No. 3, Sigh. Andante, impulsive rubato
15143 Sighs, 3 Variations: No. 4, Var. 1. Allegro scherzando
14953 Sighs, 3 Variations: No. 1, Sigh. Lento
9163 Sighs, 3 Variations: No. 5, Var. 2. Lento
857Anasa: I. Donya - Pistoli
418Sarabesque
409Sonnets: No. 2, Sonnet 12 "When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time"
3810Sonnets: No. 4, Sonnet 75 "So You Are to My Thoughts As Food to Life"
38albums
George Tsontakis: Anasa - True Colors - Unforgettable
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Man of Sorrows [Hough]
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25 Years of New York New Music
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The Nyfa Collection: 25 Years of New York New Music (Disc 5)
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Eclipse
George Tsontakis: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4
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Tsontakis: Mirologhia; Violin Concerto No. 1; October
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George Tsontakis: The Past, The Passion; Claire De Lune; Violin Concerto;
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The Valley Sings: Choral Music by Composers of the Hudson Valley
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Man of Sorrows
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Piano Quartet Trilogy
Boston Symphony Commissions