William Sydeman

William Jay Sydeman (born May 8, 1928 in New York City ) is an American composer and music teacher.

Life

William Sydeman studied at the Mannes College of Music (where he later taught composition between 1960 and 1970), and soon made a name for himself as an extremely versatile and productive composer, receiving compositions from the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , Tanglewood Music Center and the Boston Symphony Orchestra received. In his more than 400 works, traditional and experimental musical language combines elements of classical and baroque with those of contemporary avant-garde music.

In 1970 he left New York and stopped working as a composer. He taught in a drug rehabilitation center for adolescents in California, worked for two years in Los Angeles in the commercial music industry, studied teaching methods according to Rudolf Steiner in England and composed liturgical music for a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Hawaii . In 1981 he returned to the United States and began teaching at Steiner College in Fair Oaks . At the same time he also resumed his work as a composer. He has lived in Nevada City since 1988 .

Web links

Sheet music and audio files by William Sydeman in the International Music Score Library Project

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personal data
SURNAME	Sydeman, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sydeman, William Jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City