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Artist
Mischa Zupko
6+ albums
composercontemporary classicalwestern classical music
about
Chicago-based composer Mischa Zupko writes music that is emotionally charged, physically engaging and continually seeks to involve participation on a variety of levels. Having collaborated with a number of today's most exciting performers, he has created a body of work that is intensely virtuositic and speaks with clarity of vision. The New York Times Photo of Composer Mischa Zupkodeclared Zupko's Five Etudes for Piano as "...Liszt-like in their florid generosity." His orchestral music has also been praised by the Los Angeles Times as "Engaging" and by the Orange County Register as "powerful, rhythmic and declamatory." Mr. Zupko’s honors include first place in the Pacific Symphony Orchestra's American Composer's Competition, the Lee Ettelson Composers Award from Composers Inc., co-winner of the USA International Harp Competition Composition Contest, three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, one of which was the first place Kaplan Award, the First Music Award from the New York Youth Symphony, the Ruth and Emil Beyer Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs, awards from the Bloomington Chapter of the National Society of Arts & Letters, the Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, Dean's Prizes from Indiana University and finalist in the Rome Prize Competition. Mr. Zupko’s commissions include those from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the St. Olaf Symphonic Band, the Barlow Endowment, the Fromm Foundation, the Gilmore International Ke
