ABOUT ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH
The first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music for her Three Movements for Orchestra (Symphony No. 1), which was first performed by the American Symphony Orchestra in 1982.
She studied violin at Florida State University. She was initially fascinated by atonal music, but eventually developed a post-modernist, neoromantic style.
She was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 1994.
Her husband Joseph died in 1979.
She won the Pulitzer Prize the year after Roger Sessions won his.
