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Stephen Jaffe

Mary D. B. T. and James H. Semans Distinguished Professor of Music Composition
Music
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
079 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708

Awards & Honors


Hilda Honigman Cup, Sonata (in four parts) for cello and piano

State North Carolina Music Teachers Association · October 2013

American Academy of Arts & Letters, Elected to Membership

National American Academy of Arts & Letters · May 2012

Artist Fellowship

International Bogliasco Foundation (Centro di Studi Ligure) · December 2010

Composer in Residence

National Composers Conference at Wellesley College · August 2008

Koussevitsky International Recording Award (KIRA), Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Bridge 9141)

Other Musician's Club of New York · 2006

Composer of the Year, 2005

Other Classical Recording Foundation · 2005

Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship

Other Brown University · 1996

Lifetime Achievement Prize

Other American Academy Institute of Arts & Letters · 1993

Arts and Letters Awards

National American Academy of Arts and Letters · 1993

Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, First Quartet

Other Kennedy Center · 1991

Creative Arts Citation

Other Brandeis University · 1989

Artist Fellowship

State North Carolina Arts Council · 1988

Fellowship

National John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation · 1984

Composer/Librettist Fellowship Grant

National National Endowment for the Arts · 1980

Rome Prize Fellowship

Other American Academy in Rome · 1980

Tanglewood Music Center Fellow

Other Boston Symphony, Tanglewood Music Center · 1979

Teaching Fellowship

University University of Pennsylvania · 1977

Joseph H. Bearns Prize, for Four Nocturnes

National Columbia University · 1976

In the News


Published July 16, 2021
https://sites.duke.edu/sjaffe/interviews-and-selected-writings/
Published July 11, 2021
https://sites.duke.edu/sjaffe/selectedreview/
Published September 15, 2017
'Songs of Journey' Concert Invokes Stories of Migration
Published September 9, 2015
Alum's Gift To Fund Student Recording Sessions
Published April 30, 2015
Student Composer Meshes Two Musical Traditions
Published October 29, 2013
Spring 2014 Class: Making Music Today