Donald Grantham
Composer
1947 –
Who is Donald Grantham?
Donald Grantham is an American composer and music educator.
Grantham was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. After receiving a Bachelor of Music from the University of Oklahoma, he went on to receive his MM and DMA from the University of Southern California. For two summers he studied under famed French composer and pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in France. His music has won many prestigious awards, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize, and First Prize in the National Opera Association's Biennial Composition Competition. Grantham is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three separate grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. The symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Cleveland, and Dallas are among the ensembles that have commissioned Grantham to write new works. Grantham also collaborated with fellow composer Kent Kennan to author the textbook The Technique of Orchestration.
Grantham currently teaches music composition at the University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music, where he is the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Music.
Well known pieces include Southern Harmony and Kentucky Harmony for band.
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- Born
- Nov 9, 1947
Duncan - Also known as
- Grantham, Donald
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Oklahoma
- Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Southern California
Musical composition
( - 1980)
- Lived in
- Austin
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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