Michael Nathaniel Hersch was born on June 25,1971 and is an American composer and pianist.
11 Facts About Michael Hersch
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Michael Hersch currently serves as faculty at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland, where he completed his own studies in music composition.
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Michael Hersch began his studies at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore with Morris Cotel.
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In 1995 Michael Hersch studied at the Moscow Conservatory, where he worked with Albert Leman and Roman Ledenev.
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Michael Hersch then returned to Peabody for graduate studies, graduating in 1997 with a Master of Arts.
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Michael Hersch returned to Peabody in 2006, where he currently teaches composition.
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That year saw Michael Hersch awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition.
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Michael Hersch has been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he studied under Christopher Rouse, the Norfolk Festival for Contemporary Music, and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan.
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In 2000, Michael Hersch was awarded the Rome Prize, in 2001 the Berlin Prize.
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Michael Hersch has written a number of pieces premiered by Hong, including his one-act opera POPPEA created alongside librettist Stephanie Fleischmann, which premiered in at the Festival ZeitRaume Basel and the Wien Modern Festival in 2021.
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The violinist has commissioned several works from Michael Hersch, including his Violin Concerto, which she premiered with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2015.