Robert Spano is music director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival and School. One of Spano’s recent notable contributions is the creation of the Atlanta School of Composers, a project that has not only been the catalyst for generating new commissions but has also forged a comprehensive approach to incubating young composers and their work through long-term relationships between orchestra and composer, defining a new generation of American composers. Spano has won six Grammy Awards with the Atlanta Symphony.