Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

American composer

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1939

Place of Birth: Miami, Florida, United States

Profession: composer, violinist, musicologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (born April 30, 1939, in Miami, Florida) is an American composer, the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Her early works are marked by atonal exploration, but by the late 1980s she had shifted to a post-modernist, neo-romantic style.
She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
Zwilich currently serves as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.