Council for the Arts, the 2001 Music of Changes Award, and the 2004 Levitan Award in the Humanities from MIT. His compositions have earned the 1978 Margaret Grant Memorial Prize from Tanglewood, the 1979 First Prize from East and West Artists, the 1980 Recording Prize from WGBH Radio, the 1983 New Works Prize from the New England Conservatory, and the 1983 New England Composers Prize from the League-International Society for Contemporary Music, Boston. Personal Child lives in Cambridge with his partner, the conceptual artist Lina Viste Grønli with whom he collaborated on the composition "Practicing Haydn" (along with Elaine Chew). From a previous marriage to Sheila Perry Brachfeld-Child, he has two daughters, Madeleine and Rachel. Works Musical analysis Musical compositions References External links "N.E. Philharmonic to premiere Peter Child choral work March 4" (2006 news release) "Spectrum of Moods in Child’s Song of Liberty at MIT" (2010 review in The Boston Musical Intelligencer) American male composers 21st-century American composers Watson Fellows Brandeis University alumni Reed College alumni 1953 births Living people MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty Alumni of Keele University People from Great Yarmouth Pupils of Arthur Berger