Roger Hannay

Roger Durham Hannay (born September 22, 1930 in Plattsburgh , New York , † January 27, 2006 in Chapel Hill , North Carolina ) was an American composer and music teacher.

Hannay graduated from Syracuse University and Boston University and earned a PhD in Music from the Eastman School of Music . He then completed his training with Lukas Foss and Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center . From 1966 until his retirement in 1995 he was Professor of Composition at the University of North Carolina . Here he was founding director of the New Music Ensemble , the Composer-Concert Series and the Electronic Music Studio . He has also given courses at Tanglewood Music Center , Princeton University Center for Advanced Studies, Indiana University , MacDowell Colony (1982), Charles Ives Center for American Music (1985), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1992) , at the Centrum Foundation (1992) and in Yaddo (1992).

Hannay's approximately 120 compositions include ten symphonies, five operas and numerous chamber music works. He received u. a. Commissioned by the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra , ASCAP , the National Endowment of the Arts, and the American Music Center . From tonal beginnings Hannay went over to twelve-tone music. He used serial techniques and turned to electronic music and multimedia techniques in the 1960s. His orchestral works were u. a. Performed by the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra , the Houston Symphony , the North Carolina Symphony , the Greensboro Symphony , the Winston-Salem Symphony , the Indiana University Symphony and the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony and recorded on the Capstone and Aucourant labels . In 1997 he published a collection of autobiographical essays under the title My Book of Life .

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