Serge Tcherepnin

Serge Tcherepnin (born February 2, 1941 in Paris ) is an American composer of Russian-Chinese origin.

The son of the composer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Tscherepnin first had lessons in harmony with Nadia Boulanger and studied from 1958 to 1963 at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and Billy-Jim Layton . In 1961 he took lessons from Luigi Nono at the Darmstadt Summer Courses . He then studied in Europe with Pierre Boulez , Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen .

Between 1966 and 1968 he worked at the studio for electronic music at the Cologne University of Music . From 1968 he headed the Electronic Studio at New York University , and from 1970 he taught composition and electronic music at the School of Music in Valencia / California . Later he also dealt with the development of synthesizers and founded the company Serge Modular Music Systems . After the company was sold, he returned to France.

He composed works for tape and electronic instruments, multimedia works, chamber music pieces, a Kaddish for speaker and chamber ensemble (1962, based on a text by Allen Ginsberg ) as well as pieces for saxophone and for piano.

His brother Ivan Tcherepnin (born February 5, 1943 in Paris , † April 11, 1998) was also known as a composer.