Charles Wuorinen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Charles Wuorinen

American composer

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1938

Place of Birth: Upper West Side, New York, United States

Profession: composer, conductor, pianist, university teacher, musicologist, music pedagogue

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Charles Peter Wuorinen ( , born June 9, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. His catalog of more than 270 compositions includes works for orchestra, opera, and chamber music, as well as solo instrumental and vocal works.
Salman Rushdie and Annie Proulx have collaborated with him.
Wuorinen's work has been described as serialist, but he has come to disparage that term as meaningless.