Arthur Kreiger has been composing for nearly four decades and his works have been performed worldwide. He has written pieces for orchestra, chorus, mixed chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and the electronic medium. His honors included the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and commissions from the Fromm Foundation, the Koussevitzy Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Composers Conference at Wellesley. He is also the recipient of the 1993 Brandeis University Creative Arts Medal. Krieger has held teaching positions at Connecticut College, Harvard, New York University, Baruch College, Rutgers, and Columbia. He currently lives with his wife, Diane, on Moosup Pond in Connecticut.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Arthur Kreiger
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Moosup, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1979, 1982, 1986, 1988
Studios
Van Zorn (formerly Kirby)
Arthur Kreiger worked in the Van Zorn (formerly Kirby) studio.
Constructed thanks to a bequest from Sarah L. Kirby, Kirby Studio was the last new building to be erected during Mrs. MacDowell’s leadership (1907-1951). The load-bearing masonry walls were laid by local mason Augustus Beaulieu atop a fieldstone foundation. A 1995 renovation preserved the brick fireplace with wooden mantel and…