About Moshe Cotel
MORRIS MOSHE COTEL began composing as a boy and wrote a symphony for full orchestra at age13. Ten years later, he won the American Rome Prize in Music Composition at age 23. He studied at the Peabody Conservatory during his early years and also holds degrees from the Juilliard School of Music where he worked with Vincent Persichetti and Roger Sessions. In addition, he studied composition with Darius Milhaud at Aspen, piano with Mieczyslaw Munz and conducting with Jorge Mester