Kyle Gann

Kyle Eugene Gann is an American composer, professor of music, critic, analyst, and musicologist who has worked primarily in the New York City area. As a music critic for The Village Voice from 1986 to 2005, he has supported progressive music, including such "downtown" movements as postminimalism and totalism. Gann was born in 1955 and raised in a musical family. He began composing at the age of 13. After graduating in 1973 from Dallas's Skyline High School, he attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he obtained a B.Mus. in 1977, and Northwestern University, where he received his M.Mus. and D.Mus. in 1981 and 1983, respectively. As well as studying composition with Randolph Coleman at Oberlin, he also studied Renaissance counterpoint with Greg Proctor at the University of Texas at Austin. He studied composition primarily with Ben Johnston and Peter Gena, and briefly with Morton Feldman. In 1981–82 he worked for the New Music America festival. Gann has also worked on Dennis Johnson's once lost minimal composition November, which was written for solo piano in 1959 and later revised. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Gann) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)