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Jeffery Cotton is currently composer-in-residence of the Boston-based Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, having joined the group in 1999. His first new work for Metamorphosen, Lyra, was praised by the Boston Globe as "a gentle, confessional hymn to music of great beauty."
A native of Los Angeles, studied with Hans Werner Henze from 1983 to 1985 at the Academy of Music in Cologne, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar. Later he studied with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Master of Arts and Ph.D. in 1989.
In 1990 Jeffery Cotton returned to Germany as a Guggenheim Fellow, and lived in Berlin during the German Reunification. In 1992 he returned to the United States and settled in New York, where he became the first composer in residence of St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. During his tenure there, Cotton created "Second Helpings", a "hosted" series of contemporary chamber music performances in the galleries of the Guggenheim Museum. The series, hailed by the New York Times as "something truly different", continues to this day.
In 1990 Jeffery Cotton returned to Germany as a Guggenheim Fellow, and lived in Berlin during the German Reunification. In 1992 he returned to the United States and settled in New York, where he became the first composer in residence of St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. During his tenure there, Cotton created "Second Helpings", a "hosted" series of contemporary chamber music performances in the galleries of the Guggenheim Museum. The series, hailed by the New York Times as "something truly different", continues to this day.
A recipient of many awards and grants, including the Meet the Composer/Reader's Digest consortium grant, his music has been performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and the Indianapolis Symphony.
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