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Eugene Birman (b. 1987,) first prize winner of the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione “Lavagnino 2007,” has written for a variety of genres, ensembles, and performers, with performances across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Published as a composer by the age of four, he went on to tour with the Crowden String Orchestra in France and Belgium as conductor of Mosaique, his work for solo string quartet and string orchestra, in the year 2001. At the age of twenty, he won the Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize. Eugene Birman has had performances by the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Symphony, the fourbythree ensemble, the Neos String Quartet, members of the Deutsches Oper, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and the Milan Conservatory, as well as by soloists Axel Strauss, Keisuke Nakagoshi, Maurizio Ben Omar, and Jessica Miller. Recently, he appeared as a guest on Radio Classica’s A tu per tu con i compositori d’oggi and on ABC’s Good Morning America.

Through his music, Eugene Birman has sought to explore the transcendent realm in harmony and texture, an approach most prevalent in his work for symphony orchestra, Tomorrow, At Dawn, premiered at Lincoln Center in 2009, as well as his recent film work, including musical contributions to the upcoming feature release, “Good For You,” by In Play Films. His interest in broadening the profile of contemporary music has led him to pursue a highly publicized concert tour in Turkey, where a mixed Turkish-Western ensemble performed newly commissioned works across the country amidst meetings with Turkish political and cultural figures and appearances on major TV and newspaper outlets. As a Co-Founder of New Paths, New Music, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to promoting contemporary music in the United States and abroad, he has expressed a strong interest in rebuilding relevance for new music.

A former student of John Adams, Sam Adler, Luis Bacalov, David Conte, Azio Corghi, and Christopher Rouse, Eugene Birman graduated with an M.M. degree from the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the A. Ellstein Memorial Scholarship and the Rodgers and Hammerstein Scholarship. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University, as well as a Diploma di Merito from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He was Composer-in-Residence February-March 2009 at the ISCM Visby International Centre for Composers in Sweden. Eugene Birman is a recipient of awards from the NFAA, ASCAP, SCI-ASCAP, Collage New Music, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, the Juilliard School, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, among others.

He has been awarded a 2010-11 Fulbright Research Full Grant for Music Composition studies with Toivo Tulev at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia.