Philip Glass is an internationally acclaimed and highly influential American
composer noted for a minimalist style who has written concertos, symphonies,
operas, chamber music and film scores. Among his most famous scores are for the
Academy Award-nominated features 'Kundun' (1997), 'The Hours' (2003) and 'Notes
On a Scandal' (2007).
Born in Baltimore to a musical family, he learned to play the flute as a child
and later studied at the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School of Music
in New York. He won a Fulbright Scholarship in 1964 and spent time in Paris
where he ...