Website: http://www.carlwitt.com/bio.html

Educated at the Eastman School of Music, where he earned the top composition prize, Carl Witt has poured his love of music and the arts into chamber music, opera and music theater, contemporary art music, dance, and of course through his unique work as a solo performing artist.

Before devoting himself full time to solo piano performance, he won the $25,000 McKnight Performance Award, with Minnesota Orchestra Co-Principal flute Barbara Leibundguth, the McKnight Composer Fellowship, the Quinto Maganini Award, ASCAP awards, and grants and commissions from the Walker Art Center, the Jerome Foundation, the American Composers Forum, the Dayton-Hudson foundation, the Target Foundation, the Twin Cities Metropolitan Arts Council, the Brannon-Cooper Fund, the Fisher Scientific Trust, the Upper Midwest Flute Association, the Faith Partners Residency, and Nautilus Music Theater, Zeitgeist, Opus 21, and individual patrons.

Eastman School of Music: DMA in Composition and Applied Piano