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Still in his twenties, composer, violinist, and conductor David Fulmer is quickly emerging as one of the most unique musicians of his generation - his bold compositional aesthetic combined with his thrilling performing abilities have garnered him numerous international accolades.

The success of his award-winning Violin Concerto at Lincoln Center in 2010 earned international attention and resulted in immediate engagement to perform the work with major orchestras and at festivals in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, Scandinavia, and Australia. Fulmer made his European debut performing and recording the Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Matthias Pintscher in February 2011.

A surge in Fulmer’s compositional activity has resulted from a series of distinctive commissions from major international orchestras, a new violin concerto for virtuoso Stefan Jackiw, and several new works for notable contemporary ensembles throughout Europe, China, Japan, and North America. His hour-long cycle for saxophone and ensemble, On Night, composed for saxophonist Eliot Gattegno, has been featured in numerous music festivals worldwide, and will be commercially released on the Tzadik label in 2012 with the Argento Ensemble with the composer conducting.

Fulmer is the first American ever to receive the International Edvard Grieg Competition for Composers, which he was awarded in 2010. He also has received the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the BMI Composer Award, and the Charles Ives Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Other honors and awards include a special citation from the Minister of Education of Brazil for Fulmer’s series of lectures on music, the Hannah Komanoff Scholarship in Composition (2006-07), the Dorothy Hill Klotzman Grant from The Juilliard School (2005), and the highly coveted George Whitefield Chadwick Gold Medal from the New England Conservatory (2004). Fulmer recently graduated from The Juilliard School where he received his doctorate, having studied composition with Milton Babbitt and violin with Robert Mann. In 2009, he was appointed to the faculty of Columbia University.

Fulmer appears regularly and records often with the premiere new music ensembles including the Argento New Music Project, Speculum Musicae, the Group for Contemporary Music, the New York New Music Ensemble, and also with the Second Instrumental Unit, an ensemble that he co-founded and directs. He has appeared recently on the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center, Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts, and the Center’s annual festivals; performing concerti, chamber music, and solo works. He is a founding member of the Axiom Ensemble, an ensemble at Juilliard.

In addition to academic and performing engagements, he regularly presents lectures on myriad musical topics around the globe, with recent appearances at the Philadelphia Modern Languages Association Conference; International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture (Germany); BRIDGES International Mathematics Conference (Maryland); Banff Centre; Hildegard Von Bingen Society.