Biography
A skilled composer of considerable imagination
Courtney Bryan, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, is “a pianist and composer of panoramic interests” (New York Times). She is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow, and currently serves as composer-in-residence with Opera Philadelphia. Recent accolades include the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2018), Samuel Barber Rome Prize in Music Composition (2019–2020), United States Artists Fellowship (2020), and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship (2020–2021). She is the Albert and Linda Mintz Professor of Music at Newcomb College in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University.
read bio“Her music speaks to us with urgency and honesty.”
– carlos Miguel Prieto, Conductor
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Latest Press
Feature
The Christian Science Monitor
‘Minister of music’: Courtney Bryan fuses protest with the sacred
The organization praised Dr. Bryan for her melding “of jazz, classical, and sacred music in works that reverberate with social and political issues of our time.”
Ira Porter
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The Christian Science Monitor
Feature
Tulane University
Tulane composer and pianist Courtney Bryan awarded 2023 MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant’
Tulane University composer and pianist Courtney Bryan has been named a 2023 “genius grant” recipient by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, one of the most coveted honors in academia, the arts and sciences.
Stacey Plaisance
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Tulane University
