Connor Freff Cochran interviewed what American musician and composer that was born in Rode Island, and studied physics and music at Brown University?
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Connor Freff Cochran Connor Freff Cochran ("Freff") is an American comic book writer and illustrator, journalist, musician and songwriter, science fiction author, actor, screenwriter producer, product interface and robotics demo designer, BBC Television technology reporter, and founder of Conlan Press, a publisher originally formed to assist creators in overcoming personal and career problems. In addition to computer industry journalism, Freff wrote "Creative Options", an award-winning 14-year series on creativity, for the musician magazine "Keyboard", and these essays have been reprinted in college English curriculum materials, the journal of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, and in books. Writing for "Keyboard" and "Electronic Musician", Cochran also interviewed electronic music luminaries such as Bob Moog and Wendy Carlos. Freff appears on the commentary track of the Shout! Factory DVD and Blu-ray editions of Rankin/Bass Productions' 1982 animated adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn". In 1974, Freff graduated from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
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Wendy Carlos Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) is an American musician and composer best known for her electronic music and film scores. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Carlos studied physics and music at Brown University before moving to New York City in 1962 to study music composition at Columbia University. Studying and working with various electronic musicians and technicians at the city's Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, she oversaw the development of the Moog synthesizer, then a relatively new and unknown keyboard instrument designed by Robert Moog.
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Jan Swafford Jan Swafford (born September 10, 1946) is an American composer and author. He earned his Bachelor of Arts "magna cum laude" from Harvard College and his M.M.A. and D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music. His teachers included Earl Kim at Harvard, Jacob Druckman at Yale, and Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood. He has written respected musical biographies of Charles Ives, Johannes Brahms, and Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as the introductory "Vintage Guide to Classical Music".
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Paul Laird Paul Robert Laird (born October 26, 1958) is an American musicologist at the University of Kansas <ref name="music.ku.edu/"> </ref> born in Louisville, Kentucky.
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René Hall René Joseph Hall (September 26, 1912 ‒ February 11, 1988) was an American musician, performer, and music arranger whose guitar and arrangements can be heard on hundreds of enduring rock and roll and R&B recordings released by many of America's most notable labels including Aladdin, Decca, Motown, and RCA Records. His best-known recording was the instrumental "Twitchy", which featured a single-string guitar ("Unitar") lead played by Willie Joe Duncan, the instrument's inventor.
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Jeremy Castro Baguyos Jeremy Castro Baguyos (born 1968 in Quezon City, Philippines) is a musician-researcher specializing in the realization of live interactive computer music. Based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (USA), he is an Associate Professor of Music.
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William Ennis Thomson William Ennis Thomson (born 1927, Fort Worth) is an American music educator at the collegiate level, music theorist, composer, former Music School Dean and Professor at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California from 1980 to 1992. His overarching interest in research centers around the cognitive and perceptual foundation of music, insight for which is found in his 2006 article, "Pitch Frames as Melodic Archetypes," "Empirical Musicology Review," 1.2, 1-18.
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Alexander Refsum Jensenius Alexander Refsum Jensenius (born November 10, 1978) is a Norwegian researcher and musician. He is Associate professor and Head of the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, and currently serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for NIME, the International Conference in New Interfaces for Musical Expression. He is the grandson of politician Marie Borge Refsum.
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Panaiotis Panaiotis (pronounced pah-nah-YO-tis ), aka Peter Ward, is a vocalist and composer currently living in Albuquerque. He received his Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory and a Ph.D. in music from the University of California, San Diego.
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Parker Bailey Parker Bailey (1902 - 1980) was an American composer, pianist, and lawyer. He was a nephew of Horatio Parker, with whom he had hoped to study at Yale University, but Parker died before taking him on. Bailey served for a time as a lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission, but remained active as a composer for much of his life.
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Teddy Pendergrass Theodore DeReese "Teddy" Pendergrass (March 26, 1950 – January 13, 2010) was an American singer–songwriter and composer. He first rose to fame as lead singer of Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes in the 1970s before a successful solo career at the end of the decade. In 1982, Pendergrass was severely injured in an auto accident in Philadelphia, resulting in his being paralyzed from the chest down. He subsequently founded the Teddy Pendergrass Alliance, a foundation that helps those with spinal cord injuries. He commemorated 25 years of living after his spinal cord injury with the star-filled event, "Teddy 25 - A Celebration of Life", at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center. His last performance was on a PBS special at Atlantic City's Borgata Casino in November 2008.
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Benjamin Dwyer Benjamin Dwyer (born 3 August 1965) is an Irish composer, guitarist and musicologist.
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Richard Zarou Richard Zarou (born 1981) is a contemporary composer of concert and film music and the host of the new music podcast "No Extra Notes". Zarou is from Centreville, VA and completed his undergraduate studies at Shenandoah University in Virginia. He completed his Master of Music degree in music composition at Florida State University in 2006 and completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music composition, again at Florida State University, in December 2008.
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Thomas Bauman Thomas Bauman (born March 10, 1948) is an American musicologist and Professor of Musicology at Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. He is an expert on German opera, film music, Mozart, and African American theatrical history.
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Rob Bowman (music writer) Rob Bowman (born 1957) is a Canadian Grammy-award winning professor of ethnomusicology and a music writer.
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Marjorie Thompson Marjorie Ellen Thompson (January 31, 1954—September 15, 2014) was an American biologist and musician who served as Associate Dean of Biological Sciences at Brown University.
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Stan Cornelius Stanley Preston Cornelius (October 15, 1941 – December 29, 2005) was an American country musician, lawyer, politician and record producer. Cornelius was born on October 15, 1941 in Bremerton, Washington, one of three children (two sons and a daughter) born to Starling P. "Star" Cornelius (1916–1986) and wife Virginia (née Sloat). The family moved to the then-Territory of Alaska in 1954 during the height of the Cold War and lived in a variety of communities in Interior and Southcentral Alaska before settling several years later in Alaska's largest city, Anchorage. Cornelius attended Kodiak High School in Kodiak before transferring to Anchorage High School (now known as West Anchorage High School) during his senior year, where he graduated in 1958.He briefly studied at Washington State University and the University of Oregon before attending Alaska Methodist University, where he graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, the same year he married Mary Ann Randall. He then attended the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1967.
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Ben Neill Ben Neill (b. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1957) is an American composer, trumpeter, producer, and inventor of the "mutantrumpet", a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. Neill's music has been recorded on the Universal/Verve, Astralwerks, Thirsty Ear, Six Degrees, Ramseur, New Tone and Ear-Rational labels. A former student of La Monte Young, Neill spent seven years as the music curator for The Kitchen in New York. He has collaborated with DJ Spooky, David Wojnarowicz, Page Hamilton, Mimi Goese and Nicolas Collins, and performed on albums by David Behrman, John Cale and Rhys Chatham.
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Ben Moore (composer) Ben Moore (born January 2, 1960) is an American composer whose works include art song, musical theatre, cabaret, chamber music, choral music and opera. His songs have been recorded by Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham Nathan Gunn and Lawrence Brownlee on the EMI, SonyBMG, Warner Classics and Opus Arte labels. Other singers who have performed his music include Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Robert White, and Audra McDonald. "Ben Moore – 14 songs" was published by G. Schirmer in 2006. The Metropolitan Opera's farewell gala for Joseph Volpe, broadcast nationally on PBS in 2006, featured two of his operatic parody songs. His song cycles include "So Free Am I" commissioned by the Marilyn Horne Foundation, "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Dear Theo". Moore wrote the score for the opera "Enemies, a Love Story" which premiered at Palm Beach Opera in February, 2015, and for "Odyssey", commissioned by the Glimmerglass Festival.
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Jon B. Higgins Jon Borthwick Higgins (September 18, 1939 – December 7, 1984), also known in India as Higgins Bhagavatar, was an American musician, scholar, and teacher known principally for his rare skill as a non-Indian in the field of Carnatic music. He lived much of his student and professional life at Wesleyan University.
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Scott Robinson (jazz musician) Scott Robinson (born April 27, 1959 in Pompton Plains, New Jersey) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. Robinson is best known for his work on various styles of saxophone, but he has also performed on clarinet, flute, trumpet, sarrusophone, and other, more obscure instruments.
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Eleonore Pameijer Eleonore Pameijer (born 1960) is a Dutch musician who studied flute with Koos Verheul at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where she received her solo diploma "cum laude". She continued her studies with Abbie de Quant (Utrecht, the Netherlands) and with Sue Ann Kahn at Bennington College (Vermont, U.S.A.), also following master classes with Julius Baker, Samuel Baron and the legendary French flutist Marcel Moyse.