(b Kenosha, WI, 19 Oct 1948). American composer.
He earned the BA in English literature (1970) and the MA in Italian literature (1972) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, before studying composition with Les Thimmig and electronic music with Bert Levy, receiving the MM in composition, also from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1974. He spent the summers of 1974 and 1975 studying with Mario Davidovsky at the Composers’ Conference (Johnson, Vermont) and studied with Robert Morris, Krzysztof Penderecki, Toru Takemitsu, and Yehudi Wyner at Yale University (MMA 1976, DMA 1980). In 1977 he joined the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York), where he was the first recipient of the William Schuman Chair in Music. His many awards include the Rome Prize (1976–7), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1979–80), the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (...