David Del Tredici
David Del Tredici ( born March 16, 1937 in Cloverdale, California) is an American composer.
Life
At 17 he made his debut at the piano at the San Francisco Symphony. Del Tredici studied music at the University of California, Berkeley and at Princeton University, where he in 1964 an MFA reached. With him were studying there in those years composers like Earl Kim, Seymour Shifrin and Roger Sessions.
His early works composed deal with James Joyce (I Hear an Army, Night Conjure -Verse; Syzygy ) and a decade with the work of Lewis Carroll (Pop- Pourri, An Alice Symphony, Vintage Alice and Adventures Underground, Final Alice). For the composition of In Memory of a Summer Day, he received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for music. His later composed works deal with Allen Ginsberg, Thom Gunn, Paul Monette, James Broughton, Colette Inez and Alfred Corn. Del Tredici has worked as a university teacher of music at the City College of New York. Among his students who have studied with him include John Adams, Richard St. Clair, Tison Street and Randall Woolf. Del Tredici lives with his partner in Greenwich Village, New York City.