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Paul Frucht

Music Adjunct Faculty

Paul Frucht is an American composer whose music has been acclaimed for its “sense of lyricism, driving pulse, and great urgency” (WQXR). His music has been commissioned and performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Weill-Cornell Music and Medicine Orchestra, American Modern Ensemble, Asian American New Music Institute, Euclid Quartet, New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, cellist Julian Schwarz, and violinist Rachel Lee Priday.

Paul has been the recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, the Brian H. Israel Prize, Juilliard’s Palmer Dixon, Arthur Friedman, and Gena Raps Prizes, and the American Composers Orchestra’s Audience Choice Award. 2019-2020 highlights include performances by the Ulysses Quartet, Minnesota Orchestra, and the world premiere of an orchestral song cycle commissioned for Kenneth Kellogg and the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra.

Paul is the artistic director of the Charles Ives Music Festival at the Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra. He holds D.M.A. and M.M. degrees from the Juilliard School and a B.M. from New York University