peoplepill id: paul-dresher
PD
United States of America
1 views today
1 views this week
Paul Dresher
American composer

Paul Dresher

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
American composer
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.
Age
73 years
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Paul Joseph Dresher (born January 8, 1951 in Los Angeles) is an American composer. Dresher received his B.A. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. in composition from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied with Robert Erickson, Roger Reynolds, Pauline Oliveros, and Bernard Rands.

He also studied Ghanaian drumming with C. K. and Kobla Ladzekpo, Hindustani classical music with Nikhil Banerjee, and Balinese and Javanese music.

Dresher's music has been variously described as minimalist and postminimalist. Dresher himself, poking fun at the latter term (which he perceives as fairly meaningless), has referred to himself as a "pre-maximalist," hence the name of his record label, MinMax.

Dresher served on the Board of Directors for the American Music Center from 1994 through 2000.

Recordings of Dresher's works are available on the Lovely Music, New World, CRI, Music and Arts, O.O. Discs, BMG/Catalyst, MinMax, Starkland, and New Albion labels.

He was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Paul Dresher is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Paul Dresher
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes