Discipline: Music Composition

Larry Austin

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Denton, TX
MacDowell Fellowships: 1961, 1962, 1981, 1982, 1986
Larry Austin is an American composer born in Duncan, Oklahoma, most widely recognized for his work involving electronics and computer music. Austin was also a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant-Garde. Austin received early recognition for his instrumental and orchestral works, such as Improvisations for Orchestra and Jazz Soloists, which was performed and recorded by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein and went on to gain international recognition when he realized a completion of Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony. Austin studied with Violet Archer while completing a bachelor and master’s degree from the University of North Texas College of Music. He then went on to study with Darius Milhaud at Mills College, and Andrew Imbrie at the University of California, Berkeley. Austin then taught at the University of California, Davis, where he founded the improvisational New Music Ensemble. He then moved to University of South Florida, where he taught for six years before returning to his alma mater, The University of North Texas, where he was named professor emeritus.

Studios

Monday Music

Larry Austin worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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