John Paul Corigliano is an American composer of classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and an Oscar. He is a distinguished professor of music at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, on the composition faculty at the Juilliard School and an honorary degree recipient from the DePaul School of Music.