David Lang is the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices, directed by Paul Hillier. One of America’s most performed and honored composers, his recent works include writing on water for the London Sinfonietta, with libretto and visuals by English filmmaker Peter Greenaway; The Difficulty of Crossing a Field – a fully staged opera for the Kronos Quartet; Loud Love Songs, a concerto for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie, and the oratorio Shelter, with co-composers Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, at the Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, staged by Ridge Theater and featuring the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trio Mediaeval.

Lang provides the score for (Untitled), a major independent feature about a composer's life. He writes: "Most of the time film music is in the background, setting the mood or advancing the story in a supporting role. This project was different. Because the leading character is a composer, it is a film as much about musical development as it is about character development. There is the music that surrounds him, the music he composes and performs, the music that comes out of him as the complexity of his emotional life deepens and grows." The soundtrack combines music composed especially for the film with excerpts compiled from his entire discography on Cantaloupe Music. Edited and produced with Lawson White, (Untitled)'s soundtrack serves as perfect introduction to Lang's work, a mid-career retrospective of sorts for this composer's composer. For information on (Untitled), please visit: http://www.untitled-themovie.com/.

Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of New York's legendary music festival, Bang on a Can, along with Julia Wolfe, a composer whose music is muscular and kinetic and experienced through the body. She creates journeys like unfolding dramatic landscapes, a music meant to be entered into by the listener. Wolfe's work is distinguished by this intense focus on sound, the power of sound, the ways in which sound is related to memory and experience, the possibilities for new harmonies between familiar chords and micro tonal tunings or sounds found in nature and the urban world. Julia Wolfe's music is heard around the world in performances at the Next Wave Festival at BAM, the Sydney Olympic Arts Festival, Settembre Musica, the Holland Festival, Theatre de la Ville, the San Francisco Symphony, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, and more. Upcoming works include FUEL for Ensemble Resonanz, with a film by Bill Morrison, and an evening length work with film for the Bang on a Can All-Stars.