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| Composer of the Month August 2023: Michael Abels | |
 Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels is best known for his genre-defying scores for the Jordan Peele films ‘Get Out’, ‘Us’ and ‘Nope’. The score for ‘Us’ won a World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, multiple critics awards, and was named “Score of the Decade” by The Wrap. Upcoming releases include ‘Landscape with Invisible Hand’, ‘The Burial’, and a series for Disney Plus. Abels’ creative output also includes many concert works, including ‘Delights and Dances’, ‘Global Warming’, the Grammy-nominated ‘Isolation Variation’ for Hilary Hahn, the choral song cycle ‘At War with Ourselves’ for the Kronos Quartet, and the opera ‘Omar’, co-composed with Grammy-winning recording artist Rhiannon Giddens. Abels’ concert music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Opera and many others. Recent commissions include ‘Emerge’ for the National Symphony and Detroit Symphony, and a guitar concerto titled ‘Borders’ for Grammy-nominated artist Mak Grgic. Abels is co-founder of the Composers Diversity Collective, an advocacy group to increase visibility of composers of color in film, gaming and streaming media. His music is published by Subito Music Publishing.
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Listen to 'Isolation Variation' for Violin, performed by Hilary Hahn. |
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