Discipline: Composing
Based In: Minneapolis, MN
Year at Millay: 1994
Awards/Honors: Fellow, Individual Artist Fellowship, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN (2023); Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2018); Fellow, Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York, NY (2014); Award Winner, Music Criticism, Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards, American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, New York, NY (2010); Artist-in-Residence, Copland House Residency, Copland House, Cortlandt, NY (2007); Fellow, Charles Ives Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (2001).
Website: https://www.russellplatt.com/
Photo by Spencer Platt
Russell Platt has composed works for the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Knights, the flutist Molly Barth, the tenor Paul Appleby, and the bassoonist Peter Kolkay. He has won both a Charles Ives Scholarship and Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and, in 2023, a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. He has composed at Yaddo, Copland House, and Civitella Ranieri. He teaches at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.