Two leading international composers—Osvaldo Golijov and Mark-Anthony Turnage—will each join the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as Mead Composers-in-Residence for two-year residencies, spanning the Orchestra's 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 concert seasons.

Osvaldo Golijov

American-based Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov captured international attention in 2000 with the premiere of his La Pasión según San Marcos, a dramatic work for orchestra and chorus, filled with an inspired blend of Spanish, Latin American and Jewish musical influences »

Mark-Anthony Turnage

British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is one of the most admired and widely performed composers of his generation. Mr. Turnage's highly inventive compositional style results in works with a dramatic musical language that is distinctly his own »

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