George Edwards

George Edwards (b. 1943) was named MacDowell Professor Emeritus of Music by the Committee on Education Policy of the Trustees of Columbia University in January of 2009. He has been on the faculty of Columbia University since 1976, becoming an Associate Professor of Music in 1986 and Vice Chairman of the Music Department in 1989. He has also been on the theory faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His undergraduate studies were completed at Oberlin College, and he received an MFA in Music Composition from Princeton University in 1967. Following his graduation from Princeton he was accepted as a composition fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he won the Koussevitzky Composition Prize. He has since been awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship, the Naumburg Recording Award, a Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, among other honors.

Edwards has been a member of the American Composers Alliance since 1971.