Violinist and composer David Fulmer was presented the prestigious Charles Ives Award (Scholarship) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007). He is the recipient of numerous other honors, including the 2005 Dorothy Hill Klotzman Grant from the Juilliard School, and the highly coveted 2004 George Whitefield Chadwick Gold Medal from New England Conservatory. After graduating from the Masters program pursuing studies in composition with Milton Babbitt and violin with Robert Mann, David is currently resuming his studies at Juilliard as a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow. As violinist, he has appeared this season throughout Lincoln Center, most recently in the Great Performers series, as well as Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, amongst other places. He appears often with Speculum Musicae, the Group for Contemporary Music, and also with the Second Instrumental Unit, an ensemble specializing in contemporary music that he co-founded and directs. Between academic and performing engagements, he often presents lectures on myriad musical topics, with recent appearances at the Philadelphia Modern Languages Association Conference; International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture; BRIDGES International Mathematics Conference; Banff Centre;Hildegard Von Bingen Society.

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