Steve Reich

Steve Reich has been called "the most original musical thinker of our time" (New Yorker). His path has embraced not only Western classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American verncular music, particularly jazz. "There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Double Sextet in 2009 and Grammy Awards for Different Trains (1989) and Music for 18 Musicians (1998).