David Lefkowitz

Composer and music theorist DAVID S. LEFKOWITZ enjoys national and international renown, having performances in Canada, Mexico, England, the Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, The Ukraine, Egypt, Israel, Japan, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and throughout the United States.
He has won many national and international competitions, including the Fukui Harp Music Awards Competition (twice), and the American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers (ASCAP) Grants to Young Composers Competition, the National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA) Young Composer Competition, the Guild of Temple Musicians, Pacific Composers’ Forum, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Washington International Competition, Society for New Music’s Brian M. Israel Prize, the ALEA III International Competition, and the Gaudeamus Music Week. He has also been a Meet-The-Composer Composer in Residence.
As a music theorist, David S. Lefkowitz has written articles on set theory, and on the piano music of Arnold Schoenberg, and is currently at work on an undergraduate music theory textbook. He has presented papers throughout the United States, as well as Spain and Hawaii.
David S. Lefkowitz received his BA from Cornell University where he studied composition with Karel Husa. He then went on to University of Pennsylvania, studying with George Crumb and receiving his MA in 1990, and The Eastman School of Music, studying primarily with Joseph Schwantner and Samuel Adler, completing his Ph.D. in 1994. He is currently Associate Professor of Music Composition and Theory at UCLA.