Pierre Jalbert

Young American Composer-in-Residence, 1999-2002

During his residency, Pierre Jalbert won the coveted International Masterprize Competition in 2001 with In Aeternam, a piece of music commissioned and premiered by the California Symphony. He also won the Rome Prize in Composition during his tenure with the Symphony.

Mr. Jalbert, a native of New Hampshire, received his musical training at the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Pennsylvania. He has won numerous awards for his compositions, including a residency at the Copland House, a Guggenheim fellowship, two BMI Foundation Composition Awards, three ASCAP Foundation Awards, a Society of Composers Award, the Bearns Prize in Composition and a Tanglewood Music Center fellowship.

His works have been performed throughout the United States. He has received commissions from violinist Midori, the American Composers' Orchestra, the Vermont Symphony, the Fischer Duo, the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Zeitgeist, the New York Youth Symphony and the Maia String Quartet.

Mr. Jalbert teaches at Rice University in Houston (TX). His music is published by the Theodore Presser Company. To learn more.