Discipline: Music Composition

Gerald Chenoweth

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Somerset, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1983, 1990

Gerald Chenoweth received his B.M. and M.M. from the University of Massachusetts and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. His works have been performed extensively in the United States and Europe, and he has conducted contemporary music ensembles at Rutgers and the University of Iowa. His compositions have been recorded for Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI), the Smithsonian Collections of Recordings, and Access.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Gerald Chenoweth worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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