Tom Cipullo

The winner of a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2013 Sylvia Goldstein Award from Copland House, and the 2013 Arts & Letters Award from the American Academy, composer Tom Cipullo has received commissions from Music of Remembrance, SongFest, Joy in Singing, the Cecilia Chorus, the New York Festival of Song, the Mirror Visions Ensemble, Sequitur, and Cantori New York, among many others. He has received multiple fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and awards from the Liguria Study Center (Bogliasco, Italy), the Fundación Valparaíso (Spain), the Oberpfaelzer Kuenstlerhaus (Bavaria), and ASCAP. Other honors include the Minneapolis Pops New Orchestral Repertoire Award (2009) for Sparkler, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Art Song Award (2008) for the song-cycle Of a Certain Age, and the Phyllis Wattis Prize for song composition from the San Francisco Song Festival for Drifts & Shadows (2006). Cipullo is the composer of four operas: Mayo, Josephine, After Life, and Glory Denied.