Tod Machover Biography

The Los Angeles Times described Tod Machover as "America's most connected composer." He is praised for creating new music technologies, such as Hyperinstruments, which he introduced in 1986, and is regarded as one of the most prominent and inventive composers of his time. Machover was the first Director of Musical Research at Pierre Boulez's IRCAM in Paris and studied at The Juilliard School under Elliott Carter and Roger Sessions. Since the lab's founding in 1985, he has served as its Director of the Hyperinstruments and Opera of the Future Groups and Professor of Music and Media. Additionally, Machover has served as a visiting composition professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 2006. Tod Machover's work has received praise for transcending conventional creative and cultural borders by fusing together the acoustic and electronic sounds of symphonic orchestras, interactive computers, operatic arias, and rock songs in a distinctive and new way. His work has received various awards and accolades, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the German Culture Ministry, the Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, and the French Culture Ministry, which made him a Chevalier of l'Order des Arts et des Lettres. He received the IEEE's Steinmetz Prize in 2007. He won the inaugural World Technology Award for the Arts in 2010 and placed third in the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music voting.

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