Gail Kubik (9/5/1914 – 7/20/1984) was an American composer, music director, violinist, and teacher. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, and Harvard University. Kubik later taught violin and composition at Monmouth College as well as composition and music history at Columbia University, Teachers College, and Scripps College. He also worked as a staff composer for NBC Radio, a music director for the Motion Picture Bureau at the Office of War Information, and composed and conducted the music scores of several motion pictures. Kubik won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for Music and was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.
Discipline:
Music Composition
Gail Kubik
Discipline:
Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1937, 1938, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1960, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1974, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1983
Studios
Veltin
Gail Kubik worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…