Edward Applebaum

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Edward Everest Applebaum (born September 28, 1937 in Los Angeles ) is an American composer, music teacher and psychologist.

Life

Applebaum studied music at the University of California, Los Angeles with Henri Lazarof and Lukas Foss until 1966 , as well as with Ingvar Lidholm at the Royal Music Academy in Stockholm . He has held professorships in music at the University of California, Santa Barbara , Florida State University , Edith Cowan University in Australia and Rice University , and as a teacher and composer has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts , the Ford Foundation , the Rockefeller Foundation , the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Australian Research Council . He also earned a PhD in clinical psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute and was recognized by the National Institute of Mental Health . His compositions have been performed in the United States and Europe, Israel, Japan and Australia. With his Second Symphony he won the Kennedy Center's Friedheim Award in Music Composition .

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