Discipline: Music Composition

Lloyd Ultan

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Edina, MN
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980, 1982, 1986
Lloyd Ultan (1929 –1998) was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Ultan served as chairman of the Department of Music at American University in Washington, D.C. for 13 years, and spent a year as Visiting Professor of Composition and Theory at the Royal College of Music in London. He has also lectured at Cambridge University and been a visiting composer on numerous college and university campuses in the United States. He was a professor and chairman (and later emeritus professor and chairman) of composition, music theory, and electronic and computer music at the School of Music University of Minnesota, and also served as the director of the Electronic/Computer Music Studio. He was responsible for founding the School of Music and served as its director from 1975 to 1986. He composed more than 60 works for a wide variety of genres including electronic music, solo and chamber works, and compositions for voice. His works have been performed and broadcast throughout the world.

Studios

Monday Music

Lloyd Ultan 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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