Christopher Yavelow
Composer
1950 –
Who is Christopher Yavelow?
Christopher Yavelow, the son of a film professor and visual artist, is a composer and proponent of computer assisted composition.
He studied composition and theory at Boston University, Harvard University, the Franz Liszt Academy in Hungary, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in Germany, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and L'ecole Normale de Musique in Paris where he also studied with Nadia Boulanger.
Yavelow has taught music composition and theory at Harvard, the Paris-American Academy, the University of Texas, and Claremont Graduate University. He was Chairman of the Department of Music at Schiller International University from 1979 to 1980. Currently, he teaches at the University of Maryland University College.
Major works include his grand opera, The Passion of Vincent van Gogh commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981 and performed by the University of Texas in 1984. The National Institute of Music Theater sponsored his chamber opera, Countdown, as part of their “Opera in the Eighties and Beyond” program on behalf of the Boston Lyric Opera. Countdown is the first computer-assisted opera, the first opera performance accompanied by a virtual orchestra, and the first opera in cyberspace.
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