Dello Joio Honored by Classical Recording Foundation

Justin Dello Joio, faculty composer-in-residence in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at NYU Steinhardt, was awarded Composer of the Year by the Classical Recording Foundation at an event at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 30.

      Dello Joio received the award for his Music of Justin Dello Joio, a 2007 recording of original scores released by Bridge Records and featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson, violinist Ani Kavafian, cellist Carter Brey, and pianist Jeremy Denk.

      Dello Joio is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including an Academy Award in music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is currently at work on an opera based on Isabel Allende’s novel House of the Spirits, with poet J.D. McClatchy. Dello Joio has been commissioned by the Barlow Foundation to write a work for cello and piano for New York Philharmonic principal cellist Carter Brey, and by the Trinity School and the Riverside Church for a celebratory organ and brass work for the 300th anniversary of the school.