Yehudi Wyner (Photo © Michael Lovett, courtesy Schirmer Music)

Congratulations to composer and Juilliard alumnus Yehudi Wyner (Diploma '46, piano), who won a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for his piano concerto Chiavi in Mano. The concerto received its premiere in February 2005 by the Boston Symphony, which had commissioned it; Robert Levin was the soloist. The 76-year-old Wyner, the composer of some 60 works, was a Pulitzer finalist in 1998 for Horntrio.

Wyner was born in Alberta, Canada, but grew up in New York City. In addition to Juilliard, he studied at Harvard and Yale, and after winning the Rome Prize in 1953, spent three years at the American Academy in Rome. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, SUNY-Purchase, Cornell, Tanglewood, and Brandeis, where he is professor emeritus of composition.