Michael Kurek

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Throughout his stylistic evolution from modernism to postmodernism to what he calls “inclusive traditionalism,” Michael Kurek's ever-present integrity of craft and his music's emotional power have steadily earned him both national and international recognition. He has received some of the nation's most important composition awards and has enjoyed world-wide performance, publication, and recording of his works for the concert hall. His numerous prizes for composition include the Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Academy's highest annual “lifetime achievement” award in music (the Academy had earlier awarded him their Charles Ives Prize). Kurek has garnered a MacDowell Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire; a Fromm Fellowship in Composition at the Tanglewood Music Center; a Fellowship at the Wellesley College Composers Conference; and first-place wins in many national composition competitions, along with prestigious awards and recognitions from Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), the American Symphony Orchestra League, Meet the Composer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Music Teachers' National Association. He serves on several professional boards and committees, including service to NARAS (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences) in Los Angeles, which administers the Grammy Awards, and the John W. Work III Memorial Foundation, which awards minority music scholarships nationally. A po

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Kurek: The Sea Knows

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Michael Kurek: The Sea Knows

Michael Kurek: Trio and Violin Concerto

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Michael Kurek: Symphony No. 3 "English"

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Michael Kurek

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M. Kurek: Symphony No. 2 "Tales from the Realm of Faerie" & Other Works

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Trio for Violin, Violoncello, and Piano

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Backup Track without Voice

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With Computer Chorus Sound

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Violin Solo Version with Strings and Harp

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Sibelius Computer Choral, Organ, Harp

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Use Computer Female Vocal Solo

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