- Philip Glass
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated American composer. His music is frequently described as "minimalist", though he prefers the term "theater music". He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public (apart from precursors such as Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein), … - Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is an American composer of classical music. Elliott Carter was born in New York, New York. He was encouraged as a young musician by Charles Ives and studied English and music at Harvard University and Longy School of Music, where his professors included Walter Piston and where he sang with the Harvard Glee Club. He then went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, … - Charles Wuorinen
Charles Wuorinen is an American composer. Co-founder of The Group for Contemporary Music, Wuorinen writes serial instrumental music. Some of his pieces are influenced by fractal geometry and Benoît Mandelbrot, while his later works feature some tonal relationships. In 1970, Wuorinen was the youngest composer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, for the electronic piece "Time's Encomium". He is also the author of "Simple Composition", ISBN 0-938856-06-5, … - Lorenz Hart
Lorenz "Larry" Hart (May 2, 1895 - November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. His most memorable lyrics include, "Blue Moon", "Isn't It Romantic?", "The Lady is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", and "My Funny Valentine". Hart was born in Harlem to Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Columbia University, where a friend introduced him to Rodgers, … - Mario Davidovsky
Mario Davidovsky (born March 4, 1934) is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US where he lives today. He is best known for his series of compositions under the name "Synchronisms" which during live performance incorporate both acoustic instruments and electro-acoustic sounds played from a tape. (electro-acoustic music is also called electronic music.) - Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly is a composer born in Vermont in 1981 and currently living in Chinatown in New York City. A graduate of Columbia University and The Juilliard School with undergraduate degrees in English and Music Composition, Muhly studied under John Corigliano and Christopher Rouse. He has also worked alongside Björk in collaboration in the DVD single Oceania in 2004 and Philip Glass as an editor, conductor, and keyboardist. - Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. (December 18, 1897 - December 28, 1952) was an African American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and Swing music. - John Kander
John Kander , the composer half of the legendary songwriting team, Kander and Ebb that has produced Cabaret , Woman of the Year , The Act and the incomparable Chicago , was born in Kansas City, Missouri on March 18, 1927. Kander began studying music as a child and in his early career worked as a conductor and accompanying pianist for many productions. From 1955 through 1958, Kander was choral director and conductor for the Warwick Musical Theatre in Rhode Island. - Edward MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist from the Romantic period, best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idyls". Edward received his first piano lessons from Juan Buitrago, a Colombian violinist who was living with the MacDowell family at the time. MacDowell later received lessons from friends of Buitrago, including Teresa Carreño, a Venezuelan pianist. - Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams is a pianist, composer, and cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the influential Chicago-based free-jazz musicians' collective. In 1961 he formed the Experimental Band with some of Chicago's greatest jazz talents, including Eddie Harris and Roscoe Mitchell , which eventually led to the founding of AACM in 1965. - Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng , born in Shanghai, China on 6 December 1955, started piano studies with his mother at the age of four. After graduating from high school during the Cultural Revolution he was one of the first students accepted by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he earned his undergraduate degree in music composition. In 1982, he moved to New York, where he attended Queens College, CUNY, and Columbia University. - Henry Brant
Henry Brant (born September 15, 1913 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a California-based composer of art music based on spatialization and aleatoric techniques. Brant developed the concept of spatial music (music where also the spatial factor is significant) originally seen in antiphonal music in the late rennaisance and early baroque. - Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer associated with the "spectral" technique of composition (along with Jonathan Harvey and the late Gérard Grisey), which involves the use of the fundamental properties of sound as a basis for harmony, as well as the use of spectral analysis, FM, RM, and AM synthesis as a method of deriving polyphony. Following early studies in economics and classical and North African Arabic, … - Fred Lerdahl
Fred Lerdahl (born March 10 1943) is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical grammar[s]." Lerdahl was born in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied with James Ming at Lawrence University, where he earned his BMus in 1965, and with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, and Earl Kim at Princeton University, … - Tobias Picker
Tobias Picker (b. New York City, 1954) is an American composer. Picker began composing at the age of eight and studied at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School and Princeton University, where his principal teachers were Charles Wuorinen, Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt. He received his first commissions while still in his late teens and quickly became established as one of America's most sought after young composers. - Roy Webb
Roy Webb was a film music composer. Webb has hundreds of composing credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures, and while most of the movies he scored were fairly light in content, he is today best known for his dark horror and film noir scores. He is particularly identified with the films of Val Lewton Born in New York City, he orchestrated and conducted for the Broadway stage, before moving to Hollywood in the late 1920s to work as music director for Radio Pictures, … - Charles Fox
Charles Fox, not to be confused with R & B musician Charlie Foxx, was born and raised in New York City. Having graduated from High School of Music and Arts Fox continued his musical education with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He studied the jazz-piano with Lenny Tristano and he learned electronic music with Vladimir Ussachevsky at Columbia University. His career started by playing the piano for, composing and arrainging for artists such as Ray Barretto, … - Peter Lieberson
Peter Lieberson came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the Piano Concerto and Drala, two major commissions from the Boston Symphony, with whom he still enjoys a fruitful collaboration. Of profound influence on his music has been his practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Since 1980 many of his works have been inspired by Buddhist themes such as King Gesar (1991) and the opera Ashoka's Dream (1997), both from a series of works based on the lives of enlightened rulers. - Arthur Schwartz
Arthur Schwartz (November 25, 1900 - September 3, 1984) was an American composer. Schwartz supported legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood. Among his Broadway musicals are "The Band Wagon", "The Gay Life", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "Jennie", and "By the Beautiful Sea". - Vladimir Ussachevsky
Vladimir Kirilovitch Ussachevsky (Hailar, Manchuria, November 3, 1911 - New York, New York, January 2, 1990) was a composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music. Born to Russian parents in Manchuria (now Inner Mongolia, China), Ussachevsky emigrated to the United States in 1931 and studied music at Pomona College in Claremont, California (B.A., 1935), as well as at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (M.M., 1936, Ph.D., 1939). - Zhou Long
Zhou Long is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. Zhou lived for many years in New York City. He studied composition with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky at Columbia University, earning his DMA in 1993. He is the Music Director of the New York-based Music from China Ensemble. His wife is the composer Chen Yi. As of 2006, both Zhou and Chen are professors of composition at the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory of Music. - Howard Dietz
Howard Dietz (September 8, 1896 - July 30, 1983) was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist. He was born in New York City and studied journalism at Columbia University. He also served as publicist/director of advertising for Samuel Goldwyn Productions and later MGM and is often credited with creating Leo the Lion, its lion mascot, and choosing their slogan Ars Gratia Artis. In 1942, he was made MGM's Vice President in Charge of Publicity. - Harvey Sollberger
Harvey Sollberger (b. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1938) is an American composer, flutist, and conductor specializing in contemporary classical music. For many years he was considered the preeminent flutist working in this genre. Sollberger holds an M.A. degree from Columbia University, where his composition instructors included Jack Beeson and Otto Luening. In 1962 he co-founded (with Charles Wuorinen) The Group for Contemporary Music in New York City, … - Gloria Coates
Gloria Coates (October 10, 1938 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American composer who lives in Europe. She studied with Alexander Tcherepnin, Otto Luening, and Jack Beeson. Her music features canonic structures and prominent, sometimes exclusive, glissandos, being "characterized by extremely strict, even rigid technical procedures (canonic structures), which are often worked out with unusual musical materials (glissandi)". - Anne Lebaron
Alice Anne LeBaron is an United States composer and harpist. She holds a B.A. in music from the University of Alabama (1974), an M.A. in music from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1978), and a D.M.A. from Columbia University (1989). She studied with György Ligeti as a Fulbright Scholar at the Köln Musikhochschule in 1980-81 and also studied Korean traditional music at the The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts in Seoul (1983). - Norman Gimbel
Norman Gimbel , Lyricist, was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Baruch College and Columbia University. His first job in the music business was for music publisher David Blum . His first hit was "Ricochet Romance" in 1953. He later became a contract songwriter for publisher Edwin H. Morris , where he had his first major hit in 1956 with " Canadian Sunset," (with music by Eddie Heywood ). - Sebastian Currier
Sebastian Currier (born March 16, 1959) is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras. He is also an associate professor of music at Columbia University. Currier was raised in Providence, RI in a family of talented musicians, including his brother Nathan Currier, who also is a noted composer. Sebastian Currier received degrees from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music. His compositions include "Crossfade", written for two harps, … - Edward Kleban
Edward Kleban (1939-1987) was an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. A graduate of Columbia University, Kleban wrote the lyrics for the smash Broadway hit "A Chorus Line". He and composer Marvin Hamlisch won the 1976 Tony Award for Best Original Score. The one-woman Phyllis Newman show, "The Madwoman of Central Park West" (1979), featured a few tunes with his lyrics. In 2000, Lonny Price co-wrote (with Linda Kline), directed, … - Tarik O'Regan
Tarik Hamilton O’Regan is a British composer living in New York City, USA. - Justin Davidson
Justin Davidson (born in Rome) contributed reviews to the Associated Press in Rome before moving to the United States to study music at Harvard. He went on to earn a doctorate degree at Columbia University, where he also taught. A composer as well as a music critic, Davidson became a staff writer for "Newsday" in 1996, where he also writes about architecture. In 2002, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. He is married to art historian Ariella Budick. - Leonard B. Meyer
Leonard B. Meyer (b. 1918) is a composer, author, and philosopher. He contributed major works in the fields of aesthetic theory in Music, and compositional analysis. Born in 1918, Meyer studied at Columbia University, where he received both a B.A. in Philosophy, and an M.A. in Music. He continued on to study at University of Chicago, where he was awarded a [Ph.D.] in History of Culture. As a composer, he studied under Stefan Wolpe, Otto Luening, and Aaron Copland. - Jon Appleton
Jon Appleton (born Jon Howard Appleton, 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a composer, author and the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College and Visiting Professor of Music at Stanford University. He was educated at Reed College, the University of Oregon and Columbia University. A composer of both instrumental and electro-acoustic music, Appleton is best known in the United States for the latter, much of it composed for the Synclavier, … - Kitty Brazelton
Kitty Brazelton (b. 1951) is an American vocalist, composer, flutist, and lead singer of the art-rock/alternative rock/avant-garde jazz band "Dadadah". Brazelton is the daughter of pediatrician and author T. Berry Brazelton. Brazelton attended Swarthmore College and received a doctorate in music from Columbia University in 1994. - R. Luke Dubois
Roger Luke DuBois (born September 10, 1975 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American composer, performer, conceptual video artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City. DuBois holds both a bachelor's and a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University (studying primarily with Fred Lerdahl and Jonathan Kramer), and is a staff researcher at Columbia's Computer Music Center. - Brad Garton
Brad Garton (b. 1957) is an American composer and computer musician who is professor of music at Columbia University. He has written a number of computer music applications, including Real-Time Cmix, music synthesis and signal processing language for real time composition. He received his doctorate in composition from Princeton University. Garton is director of the Computer Music Center, Columbia University, formerly the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. - Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Thirteenth District, comprising the communities of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Elysian Valley, Glassell Park, Temple-Beverly, Thai Town, Little Armenia, and Filipino Town. - Alice Shields
Alice Shields (born Alice F. Shields, Manhattan, New York, February 18, 1943) is an American composer. She is particularly known for her work in the fields of electronic music and opera. She is also trained as an opera singer, and since the 1990s has acquired skill as a performer of "nattuvangam", a form of South Indian rhythmic recitation used to accompany "bharatanatyam" dance. Shields earned a D.M.A. degree from Columbia University, … - Eric Chasalow
Eric Chasalow is an American composer of acoustic and electronic music. He is Professor of Composition at Brandeis University, and Director of BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio. He holds the D.M.A. from Columbia University where his principal teacher was Mario Davidovsky and where he studied flute with Harvey Sollberger. He holds awards from, among others, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, … - Louise Talma
Louise Talma was a composer. She was raised in New York City and studied at the Institute of Musical Arts (Juilliard School of Music, 1922–1930) and received her bachelor of music degree from New York University and masters of arts degree from Columbia University. She studied with Isidor Philipp, at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, and with Nadia Boulanger every summer from 1926 to 1939. She taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York. - Ulysses Kay
Ulysses Kay (January 7, 1917, Tucson, Arizona–May 20, 1995, Englewood, New Jersey) was an African-American composer. His music is mostly neoclassical in style. Ulysses Kay, the nephew of the classic jazz musician King Oliver, studied piano, violin and saxophone. Kay attended the University of Arizona where he was encouraged by the African-American composer William Grant Still. He went for graduate work to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, …
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