Melinda Wagner (b. 1965)

Melinda Wagner (c.1965), winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion, has graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania.
She is the recipient of numerous honors including a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a 1996 Howard Foundation Fellowship, three ASCAP Young Composer Awards, resident fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and an honorary degree from Hamilton College.