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Meet the notable composers

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Meet the notable composers

This is the 2025 list of Guggenheim award winners, out today. Three have been selected as ‘notable’ (good word for a composer) – Katherine Balch (pictured), Michael Patrick Dease and Huang Ruo.

Full list:
Holland Andrews
Katherine Balch
Caroline Davis
Michael Patrick Dease
Tomás Ignacio Gueglio Saccone
Mara Mathilda Helmuth
Huang Ruo
yuniya edi kwon
Gwen Marie Laster
Peter Seajong Shin
David Virelles
Xinyang Wang
Krzysztof Wolek
John Yao

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