Artist description A composer and educator living and working in Richmond, KY.

Music Style contemporary classical concert music

Musical Influences Bartok, Bach, Martinu, Prokofieff, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, McKinley, Brahms

Similar Artists Bartok, Bach, Martinu, Prokofieff, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, McKinley, Brahms

Artist History Charles Alan Beeler was born on February 10, 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri. While a student in High School, Beeler began study of the Oboe with Leonard Arner and Alfred Genovese. He continued his studies in oboe performance with Robert Petkoff, composition with Will Ogden and theory with John Silber and Ruth Krieger at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1961. Along with musicology and theory, Beeler pursued graduate study in composition with Robert Wykes, Robert Baker, and Harold Blumenfeld, and received his Master of Musical Arts in 1965 and his Ph. D. in 1973.Mr. Beeler has been on the faculty of Eastern Kentucky University for many years where he teaches music theory and composition and is department chairman. As a composer his works have been performed throughout the United States and he has recently had premieres in Boston and Prague with the Czech Radio Symphony, New York with the New York Chamber Symphony and Concordia, and has recorded his music with the London Symphony and Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

Instruments Composer, Oboe

Location Richmond, KY - USA

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