Artist History About the Composer A graduate of the Schools of Music at Syracuse University, Boston University, and the Eastman School of Music, Roger Hannay studied composition with Ernst Bacon, Franklin Morris, Howard Hanson, and Lukas Foss. He is now Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the Founder-Director of the UNC New Music Ensemble, the Electronic Music Studio, and the Composer Concert series. From 1966 to 1995 he was Professor of Composition and lectured in theory and contemporary music in the Department of Music. From 1979 to 1982 he was chairman of the Division of Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina. His work is cited in Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, the Concise Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Music Since 1900 (Slominsky), the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of American Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and American Composers (Ewen). Roger Hannay is a member of ASCAP and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, ASCAP, the American Music Center, the Kenan Foundation, the Pogue Foundation, Meet the Composer Inc., the University Research Council, and the UNC Micro Computer Support Center. He has had invited residencies at the Tanglewood Music Center, Princeton University Seminar for Advanced Studies, Indiana Universiry, the MacDowell Colony (1982), the Charles Ives Center for American Music (1985), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (1992), the Centrum Foundation (1992), and Yaddo (1992), and in 1993 he was nominated as a candidate for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a member of the Southeastern Composers League, and his music has been published by C. F. Peters, Galaxy Music Corporation (E. C. Schirmer), Seesaw Music Corporation, Media Press, and Accura Music, Inc. A series of CDs, Architecture in Sound—Pre-Digital Electronic Music by Roger Hannay (Vols. I and II) and Two Works for Chorus and Orchestra, is now available from Aucourant Records in Atlanta, Georgia (ww.gsu.edu/~musrst/aurec), and his "Modes of Discourse" is due for release on Capstone Records in 2000. Limited editions of noncommercial CDs—Orchestral Music of Roger Hannay and Chamber Music of Roger Hannay (Vols. I and II)—have been produced by Modern Recording and are available in the University of North Carolina Music Library and the Chapel Hill Public Library. My Book of Life, a collection of autobiographica l essays, was completed in September 1997. An archive of his music and life’s work has been established in the Southern Historical Collections of the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Instruments piano

Location Chapel Hill, NC - USA

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