FloePhilip Glass, The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman, Linda Moss, Lois Martin, Julian Barber, Al Brown, Maureen Gallagher, Seymour Barab, John Abramowitz, Fred Zlotkin, Richard Peck, Jack Kripl, Jon Gibson, Sharon Moe & Larry Wechsler
ALBUMPhilip Glass: Études pour piano - IntégraleFrançois Mardirossian
ALBUMMichele Fontana Plays Philip Glass: The HoursMichele Fontana
ALBUMPhilip Glass: Symphony No. 12, "Lodger" (from lyrics by David Bowie and Brian Eno)Filharmonie Brno, Dennis Russell Davies, Angélique Kidjo & Christian Schmitt
ALBUMMichele Fontana Plays Philip GlassMichele Fontana
ALBUMPhilip Glass: Symphony No. 14, "Liechtenstein" / Piano Concerto No. 1, "Tirol" / EchorusLGT Young Soloists, Martin James Bartlett, Mark Messenger, Alexander Gilman, Elif Ece Cansever & Amber Emson
ALBUMCounterpointJames McVinnie
ALBUMOf All JoysAttacca Quartet
ALBUMPhilip Glass: Music with Changing Parts (Live at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, May 6th 2021)Amstel Quartet, Pascal Meyer & Laura Sandee
ALBUMPhilip Glass: AnnunciationPaul Barnes, Brooklyn Rider & Colin Jacobsen
ALBUMPhilip Glass: The Fall of the House of UsherWolf Trap Opera Artists, Inscape Chamber Orchestra, Joseph Li, Jonas Hacker, Ben Edquist, Nicholas Nestorak, Madison Leonard & Matthew Adam Fleisher
ALBUMStill LifeMaud Geffray & Lavinia Meijer
ALBUMSilenceChristoph Sietzen
ALBUMPhilip Glass: Metamorphosis I-VOlivia Belli
ALBUMUnexpected News: Nico Muhly & Philip GlassOmega Ensemble
ALBUMPhilip Glass: Symphony No. 5 "Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya"Trinity Wall Street, Julian Wachner, NOVUS NY, Heather Buck, Katherine Pracht, Vale Rideout, Stephen Salters, David Cushing, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Youth Chorus & Downtown Voices
ALBUMPhilip Glass: Samurai MarathonThe city of Prague Philharmonic & Richard Hein
ALBUMPhilip Glass: A Descent into the MaelstromArctic Philharmonic, Tim Weiss & Aleksander Waaktaar
Glassworks: I. Opening (Arr. for Ensemble by Angèle Dubeau and François Vallières)
Angèle Dubeau
Glass: Les enfants terribles - Paul's End
Katia & Marielle Labèque
Glass: The Fall of the House of Usher: How All Living Things Breathe
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jonathan Cohen, Les Violons du Roy, Antoine Malette-Chénier & Mathieu Lussier
Evening Song No. 2
Timo Andres
Tissue No. 7
Camille Thomas & Julien Brocal
String Quartet No. 3, "Mishima": VI. Mishima / Closing
The Modern String Quintet
Liquid Days
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jonathan Cohen & Les Violons du Roy
Glass: 1000 Airplanes on the Roof: The Encounter
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Jonathan Cohen & Les Violons du Roy
Glass: Les enfants terribles: Terrible Interlude (Arr. for Piano Duet)
Katia & Marielle Labèque
Glass: Études: No. 6
Yuja Wang
Artist Playlists
Philip Glass Essentials
The deceptively simple delights of an American original.
Philip Glass: Film Scores
Hypnotic soundtracks to get lost in.
Glass on Glass
The composer traces his musical autobiography with this handpicked playlist.
Philip Glass: Influences
The music that fuels the hungry imagination of a modern master.
Inspired by Philip Glass
Explore the visionary composer’s broad impact in picks from some ardent disciples.
New Glass
His latest works venture into fresh corners of the musical ecosystem.
About Philip Glass
Artist Biography
More than a pioneering minimalist composer, Philip Glass has long epitomised—and popularised—downtown New York’s spiritual-artistic bohemia. The self-described “Jewish-Taoist-Hindu-Toltec-Buddhist” was born in Baltimore in 1937. Glass avidly consumed the more avant classical releases he heard in his father’s record store, and went on to study composition at Juilliard and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. After he formed the long-running Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968, his rigorous minimalist phase peaked in 1974 with Music in Twelve Parts, a four-hour work completed while he was still day-jobbing as a plumber and taxi driver. The first three of his more than two dozen operas—Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1979) and Akhnaten (1983)—mythologised historical figures and became contemporary classics. Having evolved into a more flexible composer of “music with repetitive structures”, Glass wrote a dozen symphonies between 1992 and 2019, the most popular of which (No. 1, No. 3, and No. 12) are based on David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy of albums. Glass’s maximalist output also includes several string quartets and numerous solo works for piano and other keyboards. Plus, he has put his prolifically pulsing stamp on many movie soundtracks—including the Academy Award-nominated Kundun (1997) and Notes on a Scandal (2006)—in addition to works for dance and the stage.
Hometown
Baltimore, MD, United States
Genre
Classical
Philip Glass: Member of
Philip Glass is also a member of, or has been a member of the following groups