Du Yun (CRF 2015) is a CRF Board Director as of November, 2019. Chinese born international composer, multi instrumentalist, vocalist and performance artist. She won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera Angel’s Bone. She was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. Du Yun was named as one of the 38 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2018 and received a 2019 Grammy nomination in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition for her work Air Glow.
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06/05/2023: Du Yun Receives 2023 Harvard Centennial Medal
03/02/2023: Du Yun Wins the Vilcek Prize in Music
09/21/22: Civitellians Recognized by Bogliasco, MacDowell, and the Academy of American Poets
05/28/2022: Civitellians at MacDowell
03/15/2022: Steven Kazuo Takasugi and Du Yun Receive 2022 Creative Capital Awards
08/29/2021: Du Yun’s Sweet Land Named Best Opera of 2020
07/27/2021: Du Yun in the NYT
05/12/2021: Du Yun Recipient of Spring 2022 Berlin Prize Fellowship
02/03/2021: Du Yun Awarded CFA Grant
12/16/2020: Entwining Histories and Futures
08/06/2020: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Composers