Miguel Frasconi
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Miguel Frasconi (born May 29, 1956 in New York City) is an American composer who often uses improvisation, electronics, and experimental musical instruments.
Work[]
He has used new glass instruments,[1] and was a founding member of from 1977 to 1986.
He has also worked with John Cage, Jon Hassell, Paul Dresher, John Oswald, and, since 2004, Morton Subotnick.
Education[]
In 1979, he received his B.F.A. from York University, Toronto, where he studied composition with James Tenney, electronic music with Richard Teitelbaum and David Rosenboom, improvisation with , and Carnatic music with Jon B. Higgins and Trichy Sankaran.
References[]
- ^ Kosman, Joshua (June 16, 2002). "NEW MUSIC / A walk at twilight". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
External links[]
- frasconimusic website
- Miguel Frasconi myspace-music page
- Steeling Beauty: The inventive instruments of Mobius Operandi's Oliver DiCicco (SFGate.com)
Categories:
- American male classical composers
- American classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
- 1956 births
- Living people
- York University alumni
- 21st-century American composers
- 21st-century American male musicians
- American composer, 20th-century birth stubs