Carl Schimmel

Schimmel's music has received numerous awards including the Lee Ettelson Award,^[4] first prize in the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble competition,^[5] a First Music Award from the New York Youth Symphony,^[6] and first place in the Clefworks Composition Competition.^[7] His music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra,^[8] the Louisiana Philharmonic,^[9] Alarm Will Sound,^[10] Da Capo Chamber Players, and many other ensembles. A 2010 performance of his work Four Nocturnes from The Oblivion Ha-Ha by Lucy Shelton and Da Capo Chamber Players was positively reviewed in The New York Times.^[11]

In 2017, Schimmel received a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, awarded to "young composers of extraordinary gifts."^[12] In 2018 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship^[13] as well as a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation of Harvard University to write a new work for the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.^[14] In 2020, Schimmel was awarded a general commission from the Barlow Endowment to write a new work for the Daedalus Quartet.^[15]

Schimmel is Associate Professor Music Theory and Composition at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.^[16]

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