Editing Steve Reich (section)

==Awards==
In 2005, Reich was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/8447621/MacDowell-Medal-winners-1960-2011.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/8447621/MacDowell-Medal-winners-1960-2011.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=MacDowell Medal winners {{mdash}} 1960{{ndash}}2011 |date=13 April 2011|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=6 December 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists/steve-reich|title=Steve Reich, 2005 Edward MacDowell Medal Recipient|publisher=[[MacDowell Colony]]}}</ref>

Reich was awarded with the [[Praemium Imperiale]] Award in Music in October 2006.<ref>{{cite web|last=Reich|first=Steve|title=Biography|url=http://www.stevereich.com/bio.html|website=stevereich.com|access-date=February 26, 2018|archive-date=March 9, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309092521/http://stevereich.com/bio.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On January 25, 2007, Reich was named 2007 recipient of the [[Polar Music Prize]] with jazz saxophonist [[Sonny Rollins]].<ref>Hans Gefors, "[http://www.polarmusicprize.org/home/steve-reich/ Steve Reich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103235341/http://www.polarmusicprize.org/home/steve-reich/ |date=January 3, 2014 }}", translated by Neil Betteridge. Stockholm: Polar Music Prize, 2007 (accessed January 26, 2015).</ref>

On April 20, 2009, Reich was awarded the 2009 [[Pulitzer Prize for Music]], recognizing ''[[Double Sextet]]'', first performed in Richmond March 26, 2008. The citation called it "a major work that displays an ability to channel an initial burst of energy into a large-scale musical event, built with masterful control and consistently intriguing to the ear".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2009-Music |title=The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Music |publisher=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=October 16, 2011}} With short biography and ''Double Sextet'' data including Composer's Notes.</ref><ref>"2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music," ''The New York Times'', April 20, 2009.</ref>

In May 2011 Steve Reich received an honorary doctorate from the [[New England Conservatory of Music]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://necmusic.edu/commencement-2011 |title=Commencement 2011 &#124; New England Conservatory |publisher=Necmusic.edu |access-date=October 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015140230/http://necmusic.edu/commencement-2011 |archive-date=October 15, 2011  }}</ref>

In 2012, Steve Reich received the Gold Medal in Music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.<ref>{{cite web|title=Steve Reich: Biography|url=https://www.boosey.com/cr/composer/Steve+Reich?ttype=BIOGRAPHY|website=Boosey & Hawkes|access-date=February 26, 2018}}</ref>

In 2013 Reich received the US$400,000 [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]] in contemporary music for bringing a new conception of music, based on the use of realist elements from the realm of daily life and others drawn from the traditional music of Africa and Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/microsites/premios/fronteras/galardonados/2013/musica.jsp|title=BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Contemporary Music 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924011206/http://www.fbbva.es/TLFU/tlfu/ing/microsites/premios/fronteras/galardonados/2013/musica.jsp|archive-date=September 24, 2015}}</ref>

In September 2014, Reich was awarded the "Leone d'Oro" (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Music) from the [[Venice Biennale]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/music/news/10-04m.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929193555/http://www.labiennale.org/en/music/news/10-04m.html|url-status=dead|title=58th International Festival of Contemporary Music, September 20, 2014.|archive-date=September 29, 2014}}</ref>

In March 2016, Reich was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the [[Royal College of Music]] in London.<ref>{{citation|title=Royal College of Music honours Reich, Norrington and Jurowski |journal=The Guardian|date=March 10, 2016|author=Imogen Tilden|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/10/royal-college-of-music-honours-reich-norrington-and-jurowski}}</ref>