Carson Kievman

Title: Wake Up, It's Time to Go to Bed
Commission:
Completed: 1978
Instrumentation: two actors, vocal quartet, and chamber ensemble
Premiere Location: Tanglewood Music Center, MA
Premiere Ensemble: Festival Players, Theodore Antoniou, conductor
Notes:

Carson Kievman has been the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts American Masterworks; Miami New Times Mastermind Award; Princeton University Research Fellowship; a Janet A. Hooker Charitable Trust Award; two MacDowell Colony Fellowships; Jury & Participant’s Prizes at the 4th International Composer’s Festival Zurich, Switzerland; NEA Composer / Librettist Fellowship; Rockefeller and Adolph Foundation awards for a music-theater productions at the Public Theater; Fromm Foundation at Harvard Commission; Koussevitzky Foundation Composer/Director Residency Tanglewood; Margaret Grant Composition Prize from Tanglewood; Leonard Bernstein Fellowship; two Lord Mayor of Darmstadt Fellowships at Ferienkürse Fur Neue Musik; Disney Fellowship at California Institute of the Arts; Naumburg Fellowship at Princeton University; and  two BMI Awards.