Ellen Taaffe Zwilich named Honorary Member of SAM

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor of Composition, has been named as a 2014 Honorary Member of the Society for American Music (SAM). 

Judy Tsou, president of SAM, made the following statement:

"I am pleased to announce that composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich has accepted our invitation to be the next Honorary Member of SAM. As most of you know, Ms. Zwilich is a much-honored composer, being the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music with her Symphony No. 1 in 1983. Since then she has been awarded the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the Arturo Toscanini Critics Award, the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, and many other awards. New Grove Online calls her 'one of America’s most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers.' We are privileged that Ms. Zwilich will accept the Honorary Membership in person at the Society’s next conference in March, 2014 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and an exact date and time for the Ceremony will be announced at a later date."