# Roger Reynolds ![Roger Reynolds](/sites/g/files/omnuum3121/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/fromm/files/roger-reynolds_0.jpg?itok=IqlmT012) laptop\_windows [(This composer has multiple commissions - click here to view all)](/people/roger-reynolds) Title: *Piano Etudes* Commission: 2008 Completed: 2013 Instrumentation: piano Premiere Location: Barge Music New York, NY Premiere Ensemble: Talea Notes: Title: *Submerged Memories* Commission: 2001 Completed: 2006 Instrumentation: chamber ensemble with narrator, electroacoustic processing, and visual projections Premiere Location: Project Artaud Theater, San Francisco Premiere Ensemble: Paul Dresher Ensemble Notes: Title: *Only Now, And Again* Commission: 1976 Completed: 1977 Instrumentation: Premiere Location: Dekalb, IL Premiere Ensemble: Northern Illinois University Wind Ensemble Notes: Title: *Blind Men* Commission: Completed: 1966 Instrumentation: three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, percussion, piano, and chorus Premiere Location: Tanglewood Music Center, MA Premiere Ensemble: Notes: Roger Reynolds is known for his integration of diverse ideas and resources, and for seamlessly blending traditional musical sounds and those now enabled by technology. His work responds to texts both poetic (Beckett, Borges, Ashbery) and mythological (Aeschylus, Euripides, Heraclitus). He is noted for “wizardry in sending music flying through space: whether vocal, instrumental, or computerized.” In 1969, Reynolds accepted a tenured appointment to UC San Diego and has helped establish its Music Department as a destination program. Reynolds won early recognition with Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Institute of Arts and Letters Awards, as well as several grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, and a Fellowship from the Institute for Current World Affairs. In 1989, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for the string orchestra composition, *Whispers Out of Time*. His over 100 compositions are published by Edition Peters, New York; several dozen CDs and DVDs of his music have been commercially released. He is author or four books and numerous articles, some of them the result of collaborations with American, Canadian, and French scientists. Other collaborators have been choreographers Lucinda Childs and Bill T. Jones, as well as theater directors Tadashi Suzuki and Tina Parker. His performer partners have included Irvine Arditti, The Arditti Quartet, Steven Schick, Yuji Takahashi, Alexis Descharmes, Pablo Gómez Cano, Anthony Burr, Eric Hueber, and Jacqueline Leclair. In 2009 Reynolds was appointed University Professor—the first artist to be so honored in the University of California. In 1998, the Library of Congress established a Special Collection of his work. His scores and correspondence are also included in the Paul Sacher Collection in Basel. Reynolds has held guest appointments at Harvard, Yale, Amherst, University of Illinois, and CUNY. - ## Commission Date [1976](/commissiondate/1976) [2001](/commissiondate/2001) [2008](/commissiondate/2008) - ## Completion Date [1966](/completiondate/1966) [1977](/completiondate/1977) [2006](/completiondate/2006) [2013](/completiondate/2013) - ## Composer [Reynolds, Roger](/composer/reynolds-roger) - ## Commissions [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)