Donald Keats

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Donald Keats (27 May 1929) is an American composer, teacher, and pianist.

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[edit] Biography

Keats attended Yale University as an undergraduate, where he studied with Quincy Porter and Paul Hindemith. He completed his MA at Columbia University, where he studied with Otto Luening and Henry Cowell. He attended the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg as a Fulbright Scholar before returning to America. Keats received his Ph.D from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Dominick Argento and Paul Fetler. He also won two Guggenheim Fellowships and an NEA grant. He taught at Antioch College from 1957-1972, and the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music from 1975-1999. He also taught at the Aspen School of Music.

[edit] Important Works

Symphony No.2: (An) Elegiac Symphony[1] (1964)

Piano Sonata (1971)[2]

String Quartet #1

String Quartet #2

Principal Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes

[edit] Notable Students

Steven Gates[3]

David (Carl) Johnson[4]

Conrad Kehn[5]

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Donald Keats - Symphony No.2: Elegiac Symphony
  2. ^ Donald Keats (University of Denver)
  3. ^ American Composers Forum
  4. ^ Cummings, David M. International Who's Who in Classical Music accessed at http://books.google.com/books?id=48V3kmpJEEgC&pg=PA383&lpg=PA383&dq=Donald+Keats+student+composer&source=web&ots=IPeywreQ23&sig=1ZU58UuVrc6xENSi0YcuwIJkNXQ&hl=en
  5. ^ Conrad Kehn Complete Bio

Changes: Donald Keats taught at Antioch College through 1975 (not 1972), he was also Visiting Professor at the University of Washington 1969-1970. He considers his First Symphony as an important piece; both it and his Elegiac Sympohony won Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored competitions, resulting in perforances by the Kansas City Philharmonic and the Seattle Symphony respectively