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'''Roger Lee Reynolds''' (born July 18, 1934) is a [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer]] prize-winning American [[composer]]. He is known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, and for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds andwith those newly enabled by technology.<ref name=hicken-newest>{{cite journal|last=Hicken|first=Stephen|title=The Newest Music|journal=American Record Guide|date=July–August 1997}}</ref> HisBeyond work responds to text of poetic ([[Samuel Beckett|Beckett]]composition, [[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]], [[Wallace Stevens|Stevens]], Ashbery) or mythological ([[Aeschylus]], [[Euripides]]) origins. His reputation rests, in part, upon his “wizardrycontributions into sendingmusical musiclife flyinginclude throughmentorship<ref space:name=fjo whether vocal/>, instrumental,algorithmic or computerized”.design<ref name=leighton-wind"four_algo">{{cite newsweb |lastlast1=KernerReynolds |firstfirst1=LeightonRoger |title=TheFour SuddenReal-Time Algorithms Wind|newspaperurl=[[Thehttps://www.edition-peters.com/product/four-real-time-algorithms/ep68491 Village|website=Edition Peters Voice]]|publisher=C.F. Peters |access-date=March18 8,September 19852022}}</ref>, Thisengagement signaturewith feature[[psychoacoustics]]<ref firstname=levitin appeared in the notationally innovative theater piece/>, ''Thewriting Emperorbooks ofand Ice-Cream''articles (1961–62).<ref name=hitchcock-currentmindmodels />{{cite, journal|last=Hitchcock|first=H.and Wiley|title=Currentfestival Chronicle|journal=[[Theorganization.<ref Musical Quarterly]]|datename=Julygrovebio 1965|doi=10.1093/mq/LI.3.530|volume=LI|pages=530–540}}</ref>

During his early career, Reynolds worked in Europe and Asia, returning to the US in 1969 to accept an appointment in the music department at the [[University of California, San Diego]]. His leadership there established it as a state of the art facility – in parallel with [[Stanford]], [[IRCAM]], and [[MIT]] – a center for composition and computer music exploration.<ref name=crca /> He has addressed the tradition with three symphonies, and four string quartets, works that have been performed internationally as well as in North America.<ref name=loc_bio /> Reynolds won early recognition with [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright]], [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim]], [[National Endowment for the Arts]], and [[National Institute of Arts and Letters]] awards. In 1989, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a string orchestra composition, ''[[Whispers Out of Time]]'', an extended work responding to [[John Ashbery]]’s ambitious ''Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror''.<ref name=pulitzerfound /> Reynolds is principal or co-author of threefive books and numerous journal articles and book chapters. In 2009 he was appointed University Professor, the first artist so honored by University of California.<ref name=kiderra-ucprof>{{cite web|last=Kiderra|first=Inga|title=UC San Diego Faculty Member Receives 'Highest Honor' Appointment|url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/archive/newsrel/arts/08-09RogerReynolds.asp|work=News Center|publisher=University of California, San Diego|access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://adminrecords.ucsd.edu/Notices/2009/2009-8-4-2.html|title=Appointment of Roger Reynolds, University Professor}}</ref> His work has been featured at festivals including [[Warsaw Autumn]], the [[The Proms|Proms]] and Edinburgh Festivals (UK), the Suntory International Series (Tokyo), the Helsinki and Venice biennales. The [[Library of Congress]] established a Special Collection of his work in 1998.<ref name=loc_bio />

His nearly 100150 compositions to date are published exclusively by the C. F. Peters Corporation,<ref name=peters-rr-bio>{{cite web|title=Roger Reynolds|url=http://www.edition-peters.com/composer/Reynolds-Roger|work=Composer Biography|publisher=C.F. Peters|access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> and several dozen CDs and DVDs of his work have been commercially released in the US and Europe. Performances by the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego Symphonies, among others, preceded the most recent large-scale work, ''george WASHINGTON'', written in honor of America's first president.<ref name=kennedy-center>{{cite web|title=National Symphony Orchestra: Christoph Eschenbach, conductor / Saint-Saëns's "Organ Symphony," plus the world premiere of Roger Reynolds's ''george WASHINGTON''|url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/events/?event=NOCSA|work=Calendar|publisher=the Kennedy Center|access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> This work knits together the Reynolds's career-long interest in orchestra, text, extended musical forms, intermedia, and computer spatialization of sound.<ref name=kennedy-center-prognotes>{{cite web|last=May|first=Thomas|title=george Washington|url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=5196|work=Program Notes|publisher=The Kennedy Center|access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref>

Reynolds's work embodies an American artistic idealism reflecting the influence of [[Edgard Varèse|Varèse]] and [[John Cage|Cage]], as well as Xenakis, and has also been compared with that of [[Pierre Boulez|Boulez]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Gann|first=Kyle|author-link=Kyle Gann|title=American Music in the Twentieth Century|year=1997|publisher=Wadsworth|location=Belmont, California|pages=170–172}}</ref> and [[Giacinto Scelsi|Scelsi]]. Reynolds lives with his partner of 59 years, Karen, in [[Del Mar, California]], overlooking the Pacific.