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Morten Johannes Lauridsen (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007),〔National Endowment for the Arts (Website )〕 he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale (1994–2001)〔(Los Angeles Master Chorale Website )〕 and has been a professor of composition at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music for more than 40 years.〔Thornton School of Music (Profile )〕 ==Biography== A native of the Pacific Northwest, Lauridsen worked as a Forest Service firefighter and lookout (on an isolated tower near Mt. St. Helens) before traveling south to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen.〔Oram, Thomas biography, (AllMusic Website )〕 He began teaching at USC in 1967 and has been on their faculty ever since.〔 In 2006, Lauridsen was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Arts from the President in a White House ceremony, "for his composition of radiant choral works combining musical beauty, power and spiritual depth that have thrilled audiences worldwide". His works have been recorded on more than 200 CDs, five of which have received Grammy Award nominations, including ''O Magnum Mysterium'' by the Tiffany Consort, ''A Company of Voices'' by Conspirare, ''Sound The Bells'' by The Bay Brass, and two all-Lauridsen discs entitled ''Lux Aeterna'' by the Los Angeles Master Chorale led by Paul Salamunovich, and ''Polyphony'' with the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Stephen Layton. His principal publishers are Peermusic (New York/Hamburg) and Faber Music (London). A recipient of numerous grants, prizes, and commissions, Lauridsen chaired the Composition department at the USC Thornton School of Music from 1990–2002 and founded the School’s Advanced Studies program in Film Scoring. He has held residencies as guest composer/lecturer at over 100 universities and has received honorary doctorates from Oklahoma State University, Westminster Choir College, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Whitman College. In 2014 he was invited to be Honorary Artistic President of Interkultur/World Choir Games. Lauridsen now divides his time between Los Angeles and his home in the San Juan Archipelago off the northern coast of Washington State. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Morten Lauridsen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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