Shulamit ran biography for kids
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Shulamit Ran facts for kids
Shulamit Ran (Hebrew: שולמית רן; born October 21, 1949, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her the Pulitzer Prize for Music. She was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first being Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1983. Ran was a professor of music composition at the University of Chicago from 1973 to 2015. She has performed as a pianist in Israel, Europe and the U.S., and her compositional works have been performed worldwide by a wide array of orchestras and chamber groups.
Biography
Early life
Born in Israel in 1949, Ran began composing songs to Hebrew poetry at the age of seven. By the age of nine, she was studying composition with some of Israel's top composers, most notably Alexander Boskovich and Paul Ben-Haim. As a child, Jewish cantoral music played on the radio by her father had a hug
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“Shulamit Ran has never forgotten that a vital essence of composition is communication,” proclaimed critic John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune following the world premiere of her work Legends by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1993. Accolades on that level are by no means the exception: “gloriously human,” “compelling not only for its white-hot emotional content but for its intelligence and compositional clarity,” “magnificent composer,” “superior quality of her musical imagination and artistic invention”—these critical assessments of her work are typical of reactions across the United States and abroad, despite her unwillingness even to consider diluting the complexity of her art for the sake of broader appeal.
Ran was born in Tel Aviv to parents who had immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Europe before the Second World War. She commenced piano studies as a young child, almost immediately demonstrating her natural gifts, and by the age of eight she began to compose sh
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Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran (Hebrew: שולמית רן; born October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York at 14, as a scholarship lärling at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her the Pulitzer Prize. In this regard, she was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, the first being Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1983.
Shulamit Ran is a longtime faculty member of the University of Chicago and has served as composer-in-residence with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Lyric Opera. More recently she wrote a Violin Concerto (2003) for the Israeli violinist Ittai Shapira.
Ran studied with Ralph Shapey and dedicated her Symphony to him.
Many critics have commented on the combination of raw power and classical structure in Ran's work. Ran has written that she considers classical-era composer Ludwig van Beethoven her "compositional idol,