Donal Fox
Donal Fox
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About Donal Fox
Donal Fox is an American composer, pianist and improviser in the jazz and classical genres. His numerous awards include a Guggenheim fellowship in music composition, and a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy). He has also been nominated for the CalArts/Alpert Awards in the Arts. He was the first African American composer-in-residence with the St. Louis Symphony (1991-1992). Mr. Fox projects have a wide range of creative interests from his premiere of his Monk and Bach Project at Jazz at Lincoln Center, his orchestra piece, “Hear De Lambs A-Cyrin,” commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra for The Spiritual Project, the premiere of “Peace Out, My Brother” at Carnegie Recital Hall and his “Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project” at Ozawa Concert Hall at the 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival. He has been Composer-in-Residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Germany), Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), Djerassi Resident Artist Program (USA), Liguria Study Center (Italy), Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival (USA) He has recorded as composer and pianist for New World Records, Evidence Records, Music & Arts, Passin' Thru Records, Yamaha's Original Artist Series, and Wergo Records. His works are published by Margun Music, G. Schirmer and Leonellis Music. In 2008, Mr. Fox was awarded the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Music.
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