Donal Fox is internationally acclaimed as composer, pianist, and improviser in both the jazz and classical fields.  His numerous awards include a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition, a 1998 Fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), and 1999, 2001, 2003 nominations for a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. Mr. Fox served as the first African American composer-in-residence with the St. Louis Symphony from 1991 to 1993.  In the l993-94 season, Mr. Fox was a special guest artist at the Library of Congress in a program that was recorded by National Public Radio, and was a visiting artist at Harvard University. In the 1998-1999 season, he was a featured concert artist with the Richmond Symphony (VA) where he gave the world premiere performance of Anthony Kelley's piano concerto Africamerica.  The concerto asks for Mr. Fox to compose and improvise four cadenzas and many solo passages, bridging both jazz and classical styles inherent in the concerto. In the 2003-2004 season, he was a featured concert artist with the American Composer Orchestra Improvise Festival! where he gave the New York premiere performance of T.J. Anderson's piano concerto Boogie Woogie Concertante with the MSM Jazz Philharmonic at LaGuardia Concert Hall.  The concerto was written especially for Mr. Fox and asks forhim to improvise all the solo passages and cadenzas in the eight movement work with spontaneous interactive dialogue with the orchestra. Mr. Fox's exciting and innovative "Jazz Duet Series" has included concerts, recordings, and collaborations with Oliver Lake, John Stubblefield, Billy Pierce, David Murray, Elliott Sharp, Regina Carter, Stefon Harris, Al Foster, Gary Burton, John Patitucci, and poet Quincy Troupe to name a few.  He has recorded as composer and pianist for New World Records, Evidence Records, Music & Arts, Passin’ Thru Records, Yamaha’s Original Artist Series, and Wergo Records.Mr. Fox was named Top Ten Jazz Acts in 2004 in the company of Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins, and Ron Carter by jazz journalist Bill Beuttler of The Boston Globe. In 2003 and 2004, Mr. Fox held artist-in-residence posts at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Northern Ireland and the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany.In the 2005-2006 season, Mr. Fox will premiere his Monk and Bach Project at Jazz at Lincoln Center, his orchestra piece, “Hear De Lambs A-Cyrin,’” commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra for The Spiritual Project, and give the world premiere performance of T.J. Anderson's second Piano Concerto Fragments, written for Mr. Fox and the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra in celebration of the School of Music’s 100th anniversary.