The Rome Prize is a prestigious American award made annually by the American Academy in Rome, through a national competition, to 15 emerging artists (working in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, Historic Preservation and Conservation, Literature, Musical Composition, or Visual Arts) and to 15 scholars (working in Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and early Modern, or Modern Italian Studies).
Rome Prize winners go to the American Academy, situated on the Janiculum, Rome's highest hill. The American Academy in Rome was established in 1894 and chartered by an Act of the United States Congress in 1905.
The ideal of community is fundamental to the American Academy. Fellowship winners come to Rome to refine and expand their own professional, artistic or scholarly aptitudes, drawing on their colleagues' erudition and experience, as well as on the resources of Rome, Europe and the Mediterranean.
The Academy offers the opportunity to examine firsthand the source of Western humanistic heritage, and to engage in a dialogue with Rome's culture. Time spent at the Academy — stimulated in part by varied walks, talks, tours and trips, a stream of distinguished international visitors and spontaneous table talk — allows residents to enter into informed discourse with this past and to draw upon it for their individual explorations.
The Academy's main building contains most of the studios, studies and residences of the Rome Prize winners, the Library, dining facilities and administrative offices, as well as exhibition galleries, communal spaces, a dark room and archaeology facilities. The Academy facilities also include extensive gardens and additional buildings.
[edit] Winners of the Rome Prize
Musical Composition
1924: Howard Hanson, Leo Sowerby
1925: Randall Thompson, Wintter Watts
1927: George Herbert Elwell
1928: Walter Helfer
1929: Robert Levine Sanders
1930: Alexander Lang Steinert
1931: Roger Sessions
1932: Normand Lockwood
1933: Werner Janssen
1934: Herbert Inch
1935: Hunter Johnson
1936: Vittorio Giannini
1937: Samuel Barber
1939: Kent W. Kennan, Frederich Woltmann
1940: Charles Naginski
1941: William Douglas Denny
1942: Arthur Kreutz
1947: Samuel Barber, Douglas Stuart Moore
1949: Alexei Haieff, Andrew Imbrie
1950: Jack Beeson
1951: Aaron Copland, George Rochberg, Harold S. Shapero
1952: Lukas Foss, Ulysses Kay, Gail Kubik, Randall Thompson
1953: Alexei Haieff
1954: Elliott Carter, Nikolai Nabokov, Frank Wigglesworth
1955: Robert Moevs
1956: Goffredo Petrassi, Yehudi Wyner
1957: Billy Jim Layton, Bohuslav Martinu, Richard M. Willis
1958: Stanley Hollingsworth, Otto Luening, William O. Smith
1959: Salvatore Martirano
1960: Ross Lee Finney, Higo H. Harada
1961: Robert Moevs, G. B. Wilson
1962: John Eaton (composer), John La Montaine
1963: Leslie Bassett, Elliott Carter, Paul Nelson
1964: Ezra Laderman, Marvin D. Levy
1965: Otto Luening
1966: Jack Beeson, Vincent S. Frohne, Charles Whittenberg
1967: Stephen Albert, Richard Trythall, Hugo Weisgall, Philip Winsor
1968: Morris Cotel, Jack Fortner, Andrew Imbrie
1969: John Heineman
1970: Henry Weinberg, Louis Weingarden, Frank Wigglesworth
1971: Barbara Kolb, Loren Rush, Harold S. Shapero, Richard Trythall
1972: David Diamond, James Heinke, Daniel Perlongo
1973: Eugene O'Brien, Leo Smit
1974: William Hellermann, Jeffrey Jones, Leon Kirchner, Tison Street
1975: David Bates, John Eaton (composer), George Edwards
1976: Claus Adam, Martin Bresnick, Barbara Kolb, Gerald H. Plain
1977: Chester Biscardi
1978: Robert Beaser, Lukas Foss, John Thow
1979: William Albright, Dennis Eberhard, Sheila Silvery
1980: Arthur V. Kreiger, Allen R. Shearer, William O. Smith
1981: John Harbison, Stephen Jaffe, John Anthony Lennon, Robert Hall Lewis
1982: Todd Brief, Jacob Druckman, Nicholas Thorne
1983: Larry Thomas Bell, Ezra Laderman, William Neil
1984: Tamar Diesendruck, Jay Anthony Gach
1985: David Del Tredici, Aaron Jay Kernis, Paul Moravec
1986: Scott Lindroth, Rand Steiger
1987: Earle Brown, Thomas Oboe Lee
1988: John Adams (composer), Kamran Ince, Fred Lerdahl, Steve Rouse
1989: Kathryn Alexander, Michelle Ekizian, Harvey Sollberger
1990: James C. Mobberley, Walter K. Winslow, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
1991: Lee Hyla, David Lang, Charles Wuorinen, Yehudi Wyner
1992: Donald Erb, Stephen Hartke, Bun-Ching Lam
1994: Sebastian Currier
1995: Edmund Campion, Francis Thorne
1996: Nathan Currier, David Charles Randolph
1997: Mario Davidovsky, Arthur Levering
1998: Tania León, P.Q. Phan, Andrew Rindfleisch
1999: Betsy Jolas, Christopher Theofanidis, Mark Wingate
2000: Shih-Hui Chen, Carolyn Yarnell
2001: Michael Hersch, Pierre David Jalbert
2002: Derek Bermel, Martin Brody, Kevin Puts
2003: Mark Kilstofte, Ned Rorem, David Sanford (composer)
2004: Mason Bates, William Bolcom, Jefferson Friedman
2005: Steven M. Burke, Lee Hyla, Harold Meltzer
2006: Susan Botti, Charles Norman Mason, Steven Stucky
2007: Andrew Norman (composer), Bernard Rands, Ken Ueno
2008: John Corigliano, Erin Gee, Yotam Haber, Olly Wilson
2009: Keeril Makan, Kurt Rohde
2010: Lisa Bielawa, Don Byron
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