Puts studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University, earning the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Eastman. 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. His alma mater reports, For several years, Kevin Puts received reviews describing him as a 'promising composer' and 'a young composer to watch.' But with a flurry of recent performances and prestigious commissions, Puts can now be described as one of America’s most important composers, period. Puts recently left a post as Associate Professor of Composition at the University of Texas at Austin, which he held from 1997 until 2005. He now teaches composition at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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