Discipline: Music Composition

Paul Nash

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982
Paul Nash (1948-2005) Nash was born in New York City. He initially played in rock bands as a teenager, but turned to jazz after attending a festival in 1968 featuring Sunny Murray and Archie Shepp. He attended Berklee College of Music and then Mills College in San Francisco, where he founded his own ensemble, recorded for Revelation Records, and helped found the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra. He returned to New York in the 1980s and founded the Manhattan New Music Project. He also worked with the city, planning performances of jazz ensembles in public parks. He composed for jazz and traditional art music ensembles, and recorded many of his own works; his sidemen on recordings include Tom Harrell, Mark Isham, Art Lande, David Samuels, and Jack Walrath.

Studios

Veltin

Paul Nash 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…

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