Douglas Knehans is an Australian-American composer from St. Louis, MO. He has been writing music for over 30 years for all media from orchestra to opera to electronic, dance, and vocal music. He is trained as an orchestra musician, a composer, a theorist, and a music technologist. He is currently the Norman Dinnerstein Professor of Composition Scholar at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Knehans is also the director of Ablaze Records, a company that records and produces music by contemporary composers.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Douglas Knehans
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: Cincinnati, OH
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989
Studios
Phi Beta
Douglas Knehans worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…