Michael Djupstrom is a composer and pianist whose music has been commissioned by many major institutions including the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the Tanglewood Music Center. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage (including a 2014 Pew Fellowship), S&R Foundation, and many other organizations. As a performer, he focuses especially on chamber music, having appeared at festivals and in cities throughout the world. In Philadelphia, he teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music.
While in residence, he focused on the composition of a new string quartet commissioned by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music for the acclaimed Dover Quartet. The work, which finds its inspiration in the classical and folk music of Romania, premiered in March 2018 at the 25th Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival.
