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First name: Donald
Last name: Crockett
Dates: 1951
Category: Quartet
Nationality: american
Opus name: Ceiling of Heaven (2004)
Publisher: Lauren Keizer
Peculiarities: to buy: http://laurenkeisermusic.com/LKMP%20Print%20Catalog%202011%20web.pdf
Information: Born in 1951 in Pasadena, California, Donald Crockett is dedicated to composing music inspired by the musicians who perform it. After composition studies with American composers Robert Linn, Halsey Stevens and Edward Applebaum, and British composers Peter Racine Fricker and Humphrey Searle at the University of Southern California (BM Magna cum Laude 1974, MM 1976) and UC Santa Barbara (PhD 1981), he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in 1981. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Composition Department and Director of the Contemporary Music Ensemble at Thornton, and Senior Composer-in-Residence with the Chamber Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East. (http://www.donaldcrockett.com/works.asp)