Ray Lustig

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About Ray Lustig

entrancing…surreally beautiful…ecstatic…rapturous” — THE NEW YORK TIMES on LATENCY CANONS “compelling beauty and eerie prescience…” — THE WASHINGTON POST on SEMMELWEIS “…inspired…hauntingly beautiful…a glitchy, gorgeous success” — SLATE on LATENCY CANONS “scintillating, mystical …hauntingly beautiful…Lustig’s choral writing and orchestrations made the most impact…dreamlike…stunning” — SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL on SEMMELWEIS “Lustig is writing music charged with intensity and leavened with intelligence.” — THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS on UNSTUCK “powerfully resonant…gripping…alternately austere and lustrous…otherworldly” — New York Music Daily on SEMMELWEIS “ethereal…mysterious…colorful and rich musical composition.” Csaba Németh, Csillagpont Radio, Hungary on SEMMELWEIS Ray Lustig is a genre-fluid composer-performer creating for live stage, recording, and live internet performance. Ray’s work has been honored with the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, ASCAP’s Rudolf Nissim Prize for his orchestral work UNSTUCK, the Aaron Copland Award from Copland House, the Juilliard Orchestra competition, the New Juilliard Ensemble competition. Lustig’s music has been presented in venues ranging from New York City clubs and galleries to major concert halls, opera stages, and festivals around the world—Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Budapest Operetta Theater, The Bartok Plusz Opera Festival, and the École Normale in Paris, and many more. Residencies have included the Fresh Ink Festival, the Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, and the Bowling Green New Music Festival. Ray has received commission, grants, and performances from Budapest Operetta Theater, American Composers Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, American Opera Projects, the Juilliard Symphony, the Bowling Green Philharmonia, Metropolis Ensemble, Town Hall Seattle, the Juilliard-Carnegie-Weill Academy, New York City Ballet, the American Music Center, the Alfred P.Sloan Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts, Seattle Town Music, the Wet Ink Festival, Chamber Music Festival of Lexington, the Bowling Green New Music Festival, Blind Ear, Flutronix, and more. Ray’s new band Misospoek, a collaboration with New York-based Italian artist Luigi Porto (aka Appleyard College), is performing in the U.S. and Italy and is recording for releases in 2023. Ray lives in Washington Heights, New York, and teaches Advanced Composition and Composition Lab at The Juilliard School Extension.