Through his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. The operas – Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, Akhnaten and The Voyage, among many others – play throughout the world’s leading houses, and rarely to an empty seat. He has written music for films such as The Hours and Kundun, while Koyaanisqatsi may be the most radical and influential mating of sound and vision since Fantasia. Glass is the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music -- simultaneously. He has composed more than 20 operas, large and small; eight symphonies; two piano concertos and concertos for violin, piano, timpani, and saxophone quartet and orchestra; string quartets; and a growing body of work for solo piano and organ. He has collaborated with Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Yo-Yo Ma, and Doris Lessing and continues to appear regularly with the Philip Glass Ensemble. (www.PhilipGlass.com)