Charles Boone (composer)

Charles Boone
Born June 21, 1939
Cleveland, OH
Known for Composer, Teacher

Charles Boone (born Cleveland, on June 21, 1939) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, living in San Francisco.

Biography

Boone studied at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, the University of Southern California, and San Francisco State College. Karl Schiske, Adolph Weiss, and Ernst Krenek were among his teachers. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Commissions as well as a two-year Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) artist-in-residency in Berlin. His works have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as the Berlin, Avignon, and Ojai Festivals. Performers have included Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, Michael Tilson Thomas, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Jan Williams, Bertram Turetzky, and Karl Kohn.

Boone's students include Jon Beacham, Claire Jackel, Susan Sutton, Prumsodun Ok, Alexandra Steel, Bill Jenkins, Erik Seidenglanz, Rebecca Milsop, Christina Battle, Sanghee Park, Jhinryung Oh, Taeko Horigome, Michael Dodge, Hamish Dunbar, Jisun Bae, Megan Roniger, Masako Tanaka, Richard Mitchell, Ben Wood, Michael Hession, Kai-Ting Chuang, Jeff Le, Patrick Hector, Virginia White and Tomonari Nishikawa.

Selected works

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