Serge Tcherepnin

Serge Tcherepnin ( born February 2, 1941 in Paris) is an American composer of Russian - Chinese origin.

The son of the composer Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin had first lessons in harmony with Nadia Boulanger and studied from 1958 to 1963 at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and Billy Jim Layton. In 1961 he participated at the Darmstadt Summer Courses with Luigi Nono. He then studied in Europe with Pierre Boulez, Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Between 1966 and 1968 he worked at the Electronic Music Studio of the Cologne University of Music. Since 1968, he headed the Electronic Studio of New York University, since 1970 he taught composition and electronic music at the School of Music in Valencia / California. Later, he also dealt with the development of synthesizers and founded the company Serge Modular Music Systems. After selling the company, he returned to France.

He composed works for tape and electronic instruments, multimedia works, chamber music pieces, a Kaddish for speaker and chamber ensemble (1962, based on a text by Allen Ginsberg ), as well as pieces for saxophone and piano.

His brother Ivan Tcherepnin ( born February 5, 1943 in Paris, † 11 April 1998) was known as a composer.

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• American composer
• Born in 1941
• Man