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David Lang

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'death speaks' preorder now on iTunes

04/25/13 - 'death speaks' preorder now on iTunes

STREAMING NOW on NPR: death speaks by David Lang!

04/23/13 - STREAMING NOW on NPR: death speaks by David Lang!

David Lang Piano Competition Concert

05/02/12 - David Lang Piano Competition Concert

David Lang

Albums

death speaks
The Woodmans: Music from the Film
this was written by hand
Music From the Film (Untitled)
Free (Untitled) Soundtrack Sampler
Elevated
Child
The Passing Measures
This is Not a Clarinet
Classics
So Percussion
AC/DC
Terminal Velocity
The Carbon Copy Building
Brian Eno: Music for Airports (Live)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary

Biography

David Lang is one of the most highly esteemed American composers writing today. His works have been performed around the world and in many of the great concert halls.

The recipient of a wide array of awards, Lang received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music for the the little match girl passion, based on a fable by Hans Christian Andersen and Lang's own rewriting of the libretto to Bach's St. Matthew's Passion. The recording of the piece on Harmonia Mundi was awarded a 2010 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance.

His music is used regularly in ballet and dance productions around the world, by such choreographers as Benjamin Millepied, Twyla Tharp, Susan Marshall and Edouard Lock. Lang's film work includes the score for Jonathan Parker's recent (Untitled), the award-winning documentary The Woodmans, and the string arrangements for the soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream, performed by the Kronos Quartet.

In addition to his work as a composer, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can, a prominent new music festival in New York. He is Professor of composition at the Yale School of Music.

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