Composer Pierre Jalbert wins $25,000 prize from Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society

NEW YORK: Pierre Jalbert has won the $25,000 (€18,802) Elise L. Stoeger Prize.

The prize, given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, is awarded every two years to a composer in recognition of significant contributions to the chamber music repertory.
Jalbert, a 39-year-old faculty member at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston, received the award Tuesday at Lincoln Center's Rose Studio.
He was composer-in-residence with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 2002 to 2005.
His compositions have been performed around the United States and abroad, including four Carnegie Hall performances of his orchestral works. One of the most recent was the Houston Symphony's premiere of "big sky" in January 2006.

Previous Stoeger winners include Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen, Osvaldo Golijov, Aaron Jay Kernis and Nicholas Maw.
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