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Birth Place: Baltimore, MD, USA

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King LearKing Lear
 
[Broadway, 2019]
Original Score
The CrucibleThe Crucible
 
[Broadway, 2016]
Original Score
Beckett Shorts
 
[Off-Broadway, 2007]
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The Elephant Man
 
[Broadway, 2002]
Composer
In the Summer House
 
[Broadway, 1993]
Composer

Awards and Nominations


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Drama Desk Awards - 2016 - Outstanding Music in a Play

Philip Glass, The Crucible

Drama Desk Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Music in a Play

Philip GlassThe Bacchae

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Music at Kohl Mansion Unveils 2025�"26 Season Featuring Top International Chamber Ar Photo
Music at Kohl Mansion Unveils 2025�"26 Season Featuring Top International Chamber Artists
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 19, 2025

Music at Kohl Mansion has announced its highly anticipated 43rd season of chamber music concerts, bringing an exciting lineup of acclaimed ensembles from across the globe to the historic Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, CA.
Caramoor Opens Summer 2025 with Payare and Orchestra of St. Luke’s Performing Beeth Photo
Caramoor Opens Summer 2025 with Payare and Orchestra of St. Luke’s Performing Beethoven’s Ninth
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 10, 2025

This summer, Caramoor marks its 80th anniversary with a season that reflects both its legacy as a site for classical performance and its ongoing interest in musical variety and experimentation.
World Premiere Recording AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Announced by American Composers Orchestr Photo
World Premiere Recording AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Announced by American Composers Orchestra
by Emmy Rice - May 24, 2025

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) today released the world premiere recording of composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang’s moving and timely opera, An American Soldier, conducted by Carolyn Kuan, digitally via Platoon.
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden & Neil Patrick Harris Will Lead ART on Broadway Photo
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden & Neil Patrick Harris Will Lead ART on Broadway
by Nicole Rosky - May 22, 2025

Bobby Cannavale, Tony Award winner and Emmy Award winner James Corden and Tony Award winner and Emmy Award winner Neil Patrick Harris  will lead Yasmina Reza's ART on Broadway. We have all of the details here!
IN BETWEEN LINES Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2025 In July Photo
IN BETWEEN LINES Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2025 In July
by A.A. Cristi - May 20, 2025

The theme of Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival 2025, the 42nd season of Long Island's longest-running classical music festival, is “In Between Lines: A summer of music inspired by literature.” Eleven concerts, from July 19 to August 17, feature works from Baroque to contemporary sparked by poetry and language, performed by some of the best chamber musicians in the world.
Alexander Shelley To Conclude Tenure As Music Director Of Canada's National Arts Cent Photo
Alexander Shelley To Conclude Tenure As Music Director Of Canada's National Arts Centre in 2026
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 15, 2025

Canada's National Arts Centre has revealed that Alexander Shelley will end his tenure as Music Director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra after 11 highly successful seasons.
Nymphia Wind Brings BANANAS? to the Town Hall Photo
Nymphia Wind Brings BANANAS? to the Town Hall
by Stephi Wild - May 9, 2025

Nymphia is bringing her experience as “America's Next Drag Superstar” and as a Taiwanese cultural ambassador to The Town Hall’s stage to celebrate this year’s PRIDE. BANANAS? is an all new show and mark’s Nymphia’s NYC debut..
27th Annual MATA Festival Single Tickets Now Available Photo
27th Annual MATA Festival Single Tickets Now Available
by A.A. Cristi - May 3, 2025

From June 11-14, 2025, MATA will present its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
Soundstreams Unveils 2025/26 Season Featuring Quatuor Bozzini, Steven Dann and More Photo
Soundstreams Unveils 2025/26 Season Featuring Quatuor Bozzini, Steven Dann and More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 25, 2025

Soundstreams has revealed the company's 43rd season, opening this November with Sarah Kirkland Snider's poignant choral work Mass for the Endangered. Learn more!
Smuin's 25/26 Season to Feature Ballets by Justin Peck and Alejandro Cerrudo and More Photo
Smuin's 25/26 Season to Feature Ballets by Justin Peck and Alejandro Cerrudo and More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 25, 2025

Smuin Contemporary Ballet has revealed its lineup for its 32nd season, its first curated by Artistic Director Amy Seiwert. See the full season here and learn how to purchase tickets.
Christopher James Lees Extends Contract As Resident Conductor of Charlotte Symphony O Photo
Christopher James Lees Extends Contract As Resident Conductor of Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 24, 2025

The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra has announced that Resident Conductor Christopher James Lees has extended his contract through the  end of the 2028–29 season.
27th Annual MATA Festival Passes Now Available Photo
27th Annual MATA Festival Passes Now Available
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 23, 2025

From June 11-14, 2025, MATA will present its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
HARVEY MILK REIMAGINED To Have West Coast Debut At Opera Parallèle Photo
HARVEY MILK REIMAGINED To Have West Coast Debut At Opera Parallèle
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 18, 2025

Opera Parallèle will present the West Coast debut of Harvey Milk Reimagined, a bold and timely refreshed version of the groundbreaking opera originally composed by Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie.
'ABT Studio Company: Spring Moves' to Return to NYU Skirball in May Photo
'ABT Studio Company: Spring Moves' to Return to NYU Skirball in May
by Josh Sharpe - Apr 16, 2025

ABT Studio Company: Spring Moves is returning to NYU Skirball for two performances on Friday, May 16 and Saturday, May 17 at 7:30 P.M. The two-night engagement will feature a World Premiere by ABT dancer Brady Farrar and more.
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Opera Recording Debuts in May Photo
Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's AN AMERICAN SOLDIER Opera Recording Debuts in May
by Josh Sharpe - Apr 16, 2025

The American Composers Orchestra (ACO) is set to release the world premiere recording of composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang’s moving and timely opera An American Soldier digitally via Platoon on Friday, May 23, 2025.
NYU Skirball To Present the World Premiere Ethan Philbrick's Choral Work THE CONQUES Photo
NYU Skirball To Present the World Premiere Ethan Philbrick's Choral Work THE CONQUEST OF BREAD
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 12, 2025

NYU Skirball will present Ethan Philbrick's The Conquest of Bread, a free May Day Special Event, on Thursday, May 1 at 7:30 pm. The world premiere choral work is inspired by Russian anarchist and philosopher Peter Kropotkin's 1892 critique of capitalism.
Simone Dinnerstein Releases 'Complicité - Music Of J.S. Bach' Photo
Simone Dinnerstein Releases 'Complicité - Music Of J.S. Bach'
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 12, 2025

On May 30 2025, pianist Simone Dinnerstein releases her new album, Complicité, on the Supertrain Records label. This is her first recording with the string ensemble she founded and directs, Baroklyn (the ensemble's name is a portmanteau of Baroque and Brooklyn, Dinnerstein's home borough), and features the music of J.S. Bach and Philip Lasser.
Anthony Roth Costanzo's COUNTERTENOR Premieres At National Sawdust Next Week Photo
Anthony Roth Costanzo's COUNTERTENOR Premieres At National Sawdust Next Week
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 11, 2025

National Sawdust will present the world premiere of COUNTERTENOR, a multisensory concert exploring the falsetto voice, created and performed by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.
27th Annual MATA Festival - INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces Set For June Photo
27th Annual MATA Festival - INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces Set For June
by Stephi Wild - Apr 9, 2025

MATA will present its 27th annual MATA Festival, this year in partnership with ISSUE Project Room, featuring four concerts across four nights exploring the concept of INTERGALACTIC INFINITY: Music Between Spaces.
Long Beach Opera To Present Pauline Oliveros & Moira Roth's THE LIBRARY OF MAPS: AN Photo
Long Beach Opera To Present Pauline Oliveros & Moira Roth's THE LIBRARY OF MAPS: AN OPERA IN MANY PARTS
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 9, 2025

Long Beach Opera (LBO) to present The Library of Maps: An Opera in Many Parts—Pauline Oliveros' uniquely experimental opera devised in collaboration with poet and librettist, Moira Roth.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What awards has Philip Glass been nominated for?

Outstanding Music in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Crucible and Outstanding Music in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Bacchae.

What awards has Philip Glass won?

Philip Glass won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for The Crucible.

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