Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee

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Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee (February 9, 1938 - ), is an American contemporary classical composer.

Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. She began her early musical training as a pianist with Antoine Louis Moeldner in Boston, and continued studying at Juilliard as a piano major and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She later studied piano privately with David Saperton in New York and Lily Dumont, Russell Sherman, and Veronica Jochum in Boston.

At the age of 40, she began concentrating more seriously at composing and has since produced a large body of works. Her music is described as "postserial" [1] and is influenced by Armenian folk music. Her father was a survivor of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Her music is performed worldwide.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ (April 11, 1982), "Music: Debuts in Review; Phyllis Alpert Lehrer, Old and New on Piano" New York Times, by Bernard Holland.
  2. ^ (May, 2002) Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee web site.


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