John Aylward, Assistant Professor of Music, has been awarded a Goddard Lieberson Fellowship by the  American Academy of Arts and Letters. Aylward is one of 15 recipients of this year’s awards in music, which total $165,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members: Ezra Laderman (chairman), David Del Tredici, Fred Lerdahl, Bernard Rands, Steven Stucky, and Yehudi Wyner. The awards will be presented at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial in May. Candidates for music awards are nominated by the 250 members of the Academy.

The Goddard Lieberson fellowship, in the amount of $15,000, was endowed in 1978 by the CBS Foundation, and is given to mid-career composers of exceptional gifts. This year, two were awarded, to Aylward and Lansing McLoskey.

Stillness and Change, Aylward’s debut album, will be released by Albany Records this spring. He has received grants, fellowships, and awards from the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, ISCM, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Aspen Festival, and Tanglewood. In 2009 Aylward founded the Etchings Festival for contemporary music. He is Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Theory; previously, he taught at Tufts and Brandeis Universities.