Donald Reid Womack (born 1966) is a composer of contemporary classical music.
Womack's influences meld a broad range of sources, including post-minimalism, rock, bluegrass, and especially intercultural elements — in particular East Asian instruments.
He spent a year in Tokyo, Japan studying Japanese instruments, as well as a year in Seoul, South Korea learning Korean music, and has composed nearly 60 works for Japanese, Korean and Chinese instruments in various combinations.
His music has been described as "original, creative and ingenious" (Shimbun Akahata),[1] "powerful and impressively crafted"[2] and "eclectic but also distinctive" (Honolulu Star-Bulletin),[3] "raw energy alternating with a brooding potentiality" (Honolulu Advertiser),[4] "wonderfully mellow and sprightly in its metrical incisiveness" (Buffalo NY Daily News),[5] "capable of providing stimulus for a new century" (Neue Musikzeitung),[6] and as having "the concentration of a haiku."
Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fulbright Research Fellowships, winner of the Gyeonggi Korean Orchestra International Composition Competition, First Prize in the Sigma Alpha Iota Inter-American Music Awards, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, and an Excellence in Research Award from the University of Hawaii.