Composer
Biography:
Laurie Altman, born in 1944, grew up in New York City. He attended Mannes College of Music in New York, where he studied with William Sydeman and Lester Trimble and earned his master's degree in composition. Laurie Altman has received numerous awards and grants, including: Mason Gross Fellowship, Lincoln Center Composers Forum Award, Woodrow Wilson Composers Residency Fellowship, and University Professors Citation of Excellence from Tufts University in Boston.
For many years he was an assistant professor at Westminster Choir College, Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, and also pursued an intense career as a jazz pianist with his quintet in New York City and at various events, including in clubs and at festivals in Russia, Finland and Germany.
Since moving to Switzerland in 2010, he has had two European premieres at the Wiener Musikverein and several performances in Zurich. its composition Brahms Takes (written for the clarinettist and composer Matthias Müller and the Galatea Quartet) will be premiered in November 2013, and the work will be performed in Lucerne in December.
Laurie Altman lives with his wife, the pianist and photographer Jeannine Hummel, in Spiez and Zurich.
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