b'Meet the SymphonysArtistic Partner 2020Ellen Taaffe Zwilich! SEASON2021The Symphony welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich as its SRS @ Home Artistic Partner. One of her works will be included in each SRS @ Home concert. She will also engage with SRS @ Home audiences and the community throughout the 2020-2021 season.A prolific composer in virtually all media, Ellen Taaffe Zwilichs works have been performed by most of the leading American orchestras and by major ensembles abroad. Her works include five symphonies and a string of concertos commissioned and performed over the past two decades by the nations top orchestras.Zwilich is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music (the first woman ever to receive this coveted award), the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the Arturo Toscanini Music Critics Award, the Ernst von Dohnnyi Citation, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Grammy nominations, the Alfred I. Dupont Award, Miami Performing Arts Center Award, the Medaglia doro in the G.B. Viotti Competition, and the NPR and WNYC Gotham Award for her contributions to the musical life of New York City. Among other distinctions, Zwilich has been elected to the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1995, she was named to the first Composers Chair in the history of Carnegie Hall, and she was designated Musical Americas Composer of the Year for 1999. Zwilich, who holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School, currently holds the Krafft Distinguished Professorship at Florida State University.Watch this introductory videoon the Symphonys YouTube channel.14Santa Rosa SymphonyRESIDENT ORCHESTRA|WEILL HALL, THE GREEN MUSIC CENTER'