Michael Kurek is a composer whose music has evolved through modernist, postmodernist, and narrative traditionalist influences. He is the recipient of the prestigious Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Academy’s highest annual “lifetime achievement” award in music. Kurek’s music has been performed lived and heard on the radio and television across the United States and abroad. He has been profiled in numerous magazines, journals, and newspapers and his music has been widely broadcasted on classical radio stations, including NPR’s Morning Edition. Kurek has also garnered a MacDowell Fellowship, a Fromm Fellowship in Composition at Tanglewood Music Center, a Fellowship at the Wellesley College Composers Conference, and many first-place wins in international competitions. He serves on several professional boards and committees, such as The Recording Academy, and was Chair of the Department of Music Composition at the Blair School of Music of Vanderbilt University for many years.
Michael Kurek
Studios
Phi Beta
Michael Kurek worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…