Philip Glass
American composer
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| 2025 | Glass composed 'Prelude for Organ', a forward-looking piece for future performance. |
| 2023 | Glass composed the music for 'Once Within a Time', directed by Godfrey Reggio. |
| 2023 | Philip Glass created 'Triumph of the Octagon' for orchestra. |
| November 7 2023 | Released Philip Glass Piano Etudes: The Complete Folios 1–20 & Essays from Fellow Artists, a deluxe boxed set with piano etudes and essays |
| 2022 | Awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, further cementing his status as a groundbreaking contemporary composer. |
| 2022 | Philip Glass composed 'Alice ballet' for orchestra. |
| 2022 | Philip Glass completed String Quartet No. 9, titled 'King Lear'. |
| 2022 | Philip Glass composed Symphony No. 13. |
| 2022 | The Metropolitan Opera's production of Akhnaten won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. |
| 2021 | Philip Glass completed Symphony No. 14, titled Liechtenstein Suite for string orchestra. |
| June 13 2021 | Circus Days and Nights was livestreamed worldwide. |
| May 29 2021 | Circus Days and Nights, with librettists David Henry Hwang and circus director Tilde Björfors, premiered on Malmö Opera’s main stage. |
| 2020 | He wrote the score for 'Tales from the Loop', an Amazon Original series. |
| 2020 | Receives the Grammy Trustees Award. |
| 2019 | Perpetulum, a percussion quartet, was composed. |
| 2019 | Glass composed the music for 'Samurai Marathon', directed by Bernard Rose. |
| 2019 | Philip Glass wrote 'King Lear Overture' for orchestra. |
| 2019 | Philip Glass composed incidental music for 'King Lear' by Shakespeare. |
| 2019 | Philip Glass completed his 'First Piano Sonata.' |
| 2019 | Philip Glass composed Symphony No. 12, which is based on 'Lodger' by David Bowie. |
| January 10 2019 | Premiered Symphony No. 12, based on David Bowie's album Lodger, at Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by John Adams |
| 2018 | Philip Glass composed String Quartet No. 8. |
| 2018 | Annunciation, a piano quintet for two violins, viola, cello, and piano, was completed. |
| 2018 | Receives the Kennedy Center Honors. |
| 2017 | He wrote the score for 'Jane', directed by Brett Morgen. |
| 2017 | The 'Flute Concerto' for flute and orchestra, a transcription from Glass's Violin Concerto No. 1, was arranged by James Strauss. |
| 2017 | The 'Orphée Suite' from Philip Glass's opera 'Orphée' was arranged for flute, strings, and percussion by James Strauss. |
| 2017 | Philip Glass completed Symphony No. 11. |
| 2017 | Philip Glass composed 'Distant Figure – Passacaglia.' |
| 2017 | Philip Glass completed Piano Concerto No. 3 for piano and string orchestra. |
| September 22 2017 | Premiered Piano Concerto No. 3 with pianist Simone Dinnerstein at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music. |
| January 31 2017 | Premiered Symphony No. 11 at Carnegie Hall on his 80th birthday, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies |
| 2016 | Philip Glass created music for 'The Crucible' by Arthur Miller. |
| 2015 | Philip Glass composed 'Partita for Solo Double Bass' subtitled 'The Not Doings of an Insomniac.' |
| 2015 | Glass composed the score for 'Fantastic Four', directed by Josh Trank. |
| 2015 | Philip Glass created the 'Double Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra'. |
| 2015 | Anton Batagov transcribed Prophecies from Koyaanisqatsi for piano. |
| 2015 | Published memoir 'Words Without Music' |
| 2015 | Received the National Medal of Arts from the President of the United States. |
| 2015 | Collaborated with Marco Beltrami to score Fantastic Four. |
| May 2015 | Premiered Double Concerto for Two Pianos with Katia and Marielle Labèque and the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel. |
| 2014 | Philip Glass wrote String Quartet No. 7. |
| 2014 | 'The Trial' was composed by Glass for voices and chamber orchestra, featuring a libretto by Christopher Hampton, based on Franz Kafka's novel. |
| 2014 | World premiere of the opera Help, a short monodrama he wrote, performed at a live broadcast of This American Life at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. |
| 2013 | Philip Glass completed String Quartet No. 6. |
| 2013 | He wrote the music for 'Visitors', directed by Godfrey Reggio. |
| 2013 | Philip Glass created 'Two Movements for Four Pianos'. |
| 2013 | Contributed the piano piece 'Duet' to Park Chan-wook's film 'Stoker'. |
| 2013 | Composed the opera The Perfect American. |
| June 28 2013 | Premiered Two Movements for Four Pianos at the Museum Kunstpalast, performed by Katia and Marielle Labèque, Maki Namekawa, and Dennis Russell Davies. |
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