James Grant

For over five decades, James Grant has been commissioned by individuals, choruses, chamber ensembles and orchestras who have performed his music throughout the world. He is a past first-prize winner in the Washington Cathedral Choral Society's choral composition competition and the Louisville Orchestra Competition for New Orchestral Music and has received the Aaron Copland Award and the Sylvia Godstein Award, sponsored by Copland House. Grant's colorful musical language is known by musicians and audiences for its honed craft and immediacy, and his ability to compose music appropriate to specific levels of experience has found him working with groups ranging from professional orchestras, choruses, solo recitalists, new music ensembles and ballet companies to community choruses, university choral and instrumental ensembles, and youth orchestras. His music is regularly programmed at music festivals, symposia, and clinics worldwide.