Discipline: Music Composition

C. Tison Street

Discipline: Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1977
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Tison C. Street is an American composer of contemporary classical music and a violinist. He studied violin with Einar Hansen (the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) from 1951 to 1959. He later studied composition at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and David Del Tredici, receiving B.A. and M.A. degrees. In 1973 he won the Rome Prize and spent a year at the American Academy in Rome. His compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Boston Classical Orchestra. He has taught at Harvard University (associate professor of music, 1979–1983), the University of California, Berkeley, Boston University, and Amherst College (2008). He is a winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1981), a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (second prize, 1994, for his orchestral work Bright Sambas), a Naumberg Recording Award, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, an NEA grant, the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award.

Studios

Veltin

C. Tison Street worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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