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Pierre Jalbert Awarded 2006-07 Stoeger Prize
At a special award ceremony at CMS on Monday, March 20, composer Pierre Jalbert was awarded the Elise L. Stoeger Prize for Composition. The Stoeger Prize is a $25,000 cash award given every two years in recognition of significant contributions to the chamber music repertory. Mr. Jalbert accepted the award from CMS Co-Artistic Director Wu Han at the ceremony, which was hosted by CMS Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Programs Bruce Adolphe.
The event, which included an interview with Mr. Jalbert and a live performance of a representative work by the Escher Quartet, was recorded for national radio distribution by the WFMT Radio Network.
PIERRE JALBERT served as Composer-in-Residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 2002-2005 and is currently Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston. From 1999-2002, he served as Composer-in-Residence with the California Symphony. He has received numerous awards for his compositions, including the Rome Prize, the BBC Masterprize, a Guggenheim fellowship, BMI and ASCAP Awards, a Society of Composer’s Award, and the Bearns Prize in Composition.
His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and abroad, including four Carnegie Hall performances of his orchestral works, one of the most recent being the Houston Symphony’s premiere of his orchestral work, big sky, in January, 2006.
The London Symphony Orchestra performed his In Aeternam at the Barbican Centre in London as part of the BBC’s Masterprize Competition in 2001, in which he received first prize. He has also been commissioned and performed by violinist Midori, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Seattle Symphony, Albany Symphony, Vermont Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, the Fischer Duo, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Zeitgeist, Network for New Music, and the Ying, Maia, Enso, and Chiara String Quartets, among others. His music is published by Theodore Presser Company and he is a member of Musiqa, a Houston new music group.
Current projects include a new work for the Maia String Quartet and an orchestral work commissioned through Meet The Composer’s Magnum Opus Project for three California orchestras who will each perform the work over the next three years (the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, and the Marin Symphony).
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