Paul Moravec

"As a composer, I try always to make beautiful things..."

- Paul Moravec

Paul Moravec, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music, has composed over two hundred orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal compositions. He has been described in Opera News as “a masterful musical dramatist,” and his music has been hailed as “tuneful, ebullient and wonderfully energetic” (SF Chronicle), “riveting and fascinating” (NPR), and “assured, virtuosic” (WSJ).

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March 6, 2026

A NATION OF OTHERS : Premiere

Composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell’s opera “A Nation of Others” dramatizes the stories of the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” at Ellis Island on a single day in 1921.
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Harvard Magazine
November 18, 2022

Review: Oratorio Society Debuts Stunning NATION OF OTHERS by Moravec and Campbell at Carnegie Hall