Jay Schwartz

Jay Schwartz (born June 26, 1965) is an American composer based in Germany. Biography Schwartz was born in San Diego, California, in 1965. His father was a professional boxer who later worked in swimming pool maintenance, while his mother was a kindergarten teacher. Schwartz began playing the piano at a young age and was largely self-taught in composition. He studied music at Arizona State University, graduating in 1989 followed by graduate studies in musicology in Tübingen, Germany. Awards In 2000, Schwartz received the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Prize for composition in Cologne, Germany. He is also a three-time recipient of the Strobel Fellowship for electronic music from the Südwestrundfunk. In 2014, Schwartz was awarded a residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, and he also received the Rome Prize for a residency at the Villa Massimo in Rome in both 2017 and 2018. In 2019, he was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. In 2020 he was awarded wit the Mario Merz Prize. Music Jay Schwartz’s compositional approach is grounded in the physical properties of sound, incorporating elements such as the overtone series, microtonality, and glissandi. He explores t