# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shulamit-ran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:04.018Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shulamit-ran"
name: "Shulamit Ran"
slug: "shulamit-ran"
description: "Shulamit Ran is an Israeli-American composer. She moved from Israel to New York City at 14, as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music. Her Symphony (1990) won her the Pulitzer Prize for Music. She was the second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first being Ellen Taaffe Zwilich in 1983. Ran was a professor of music composition at the University of Chicago from 1973 to 2015. She has performed as a pianist in Israel, Europe and the U.S., and her compositional works have been performed worldwide by a wide array of orchestras and chamber groups."
tagline: "American composer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1949-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.417721518987342
  historical:           10.07915866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4611363/"
    handle:    "nm4611363"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://shulamitran.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "شولاميت ران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shulamit Ran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamit_Ran"
    title: "Shulamit Ran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AF%CF%84_%CE%A1%CE%B1%CE%BD"
    title: "Σουλαμίτ Ραν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamit_Ran"
    title: "Shulamit Ran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamit_Ran"
    title: "Shulamit Ran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%A8%D7%9F"
    title: "שולמית רן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamit_Ran"
    title: "Shulamit Ran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9F%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3"
    title: "シュラミト・ラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shulamit_Ran"
    title: "Shulamit Ran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1889606"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump