Russell Platt
Composition
Russell Platt has composed works for the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Knights, the flutist Molly Barth, the tenor Paul Appleby, and the bassoonist Peter Kolkay. He has won both a Charles Ives Scholarship and Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and, in 2023, a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. He has composed at Yaddo, Copland House, and Civitella Ranieri. He teaches at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.