Anuj Bhutani
Anuj Bhutani is quickly emerging as a unique and versatile composer whose music often features visceral grooves; ethereal, meditative spaces; a combination of acoustic instruments and electronics, and a strong sense of narrative. Since 2020, he won 1st prize in Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble’s Emerging Composer Competition, Verdigris Ensemble’s ION Composer Competition, Warren County Summer Music School’s Promising Young Composer Competition, Blank House Media’s Recording Competition, was a Finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, won 3rd prize in the American Prize in Choral Composition and The Choral Project's Composition Competition, was a Finalist in the RED NOTE Composition Competition as well as the Keene State College Call for Scores, and was selected for the NewAm Composer’s Lab, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival’s New Music Workshop at Yale School of Music, RED NOTE Festival Composition Workshop, an Avaloch Farm Music Institute residency, SCI National Conference and Student Mixtape, SEAMUS conference, Impulse New Music Festival, Nick Photinos’ “1:2:1” string intensive, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, and the Sonic Murals and Electric LaTex festivals.
His work has been commissioned or performed by Ashley Bathgate, Raleigh Civic Symphony, Metropolis Ensemble, Verdant Vibes, Andrew Tholl of Wild Up, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, Lauren Cauley Kalal of Switch~ ensemble, Inversion Ensemble (after winning the Happy Composer Commissioning Project), vocalist Daisy Press, soprano Molly Fillmore, the William Paterson University Percussion Ensemble, and more.
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