Pitt Professor Eric Moe Receives 2010 Aaron Copland Award
PITTSBURGH—Eric Moe, composer and professor of composition and theory at the University of Pittsburgh, is one of only 10 composers nationwide selected for a prestigious Aaron Copland Award residency at Copland House in Mt. Kisco, N.Y., the home of the late eminent American composer that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
During Moe’s residency, from mid-April to mid-May 2011, he will work on a commissioned piece for the Brentano String Quartet and soprano Christine Brandes—setting to music the poetry of the late May Swenson. The quartet is the first-ever ensemble-in-residence at Princeton University.