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 scholarships, including the Mason Gross Fellowship, the Lincoln Centre Composers Forum Award, the Woodrow Wilson Composers Residency Fellowship, and the University Professors Citation of Excellence from Tufts University in Boston.
He was an assistant professor at Westminster Choir College at Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey, for many years and also pursued an intensive career as a jazz pianist with his quintet in New York City and at various events, including clubs and festivals in Russia, Finland and Germany.
Since moving to Switzerland in 2010, he has had two European premieres at the Vienna Musikverein and several performances in Zurich. His composition Brahms Takes (written for clarinettist and composer Matthias Müller and the Galatea Quartet) will premiere in November 2013 and will be performed in Lucerne in December.
Laurie Altman lives with his wife, pianist and photographer Jeannine Hummel, in Spiez and Zurich.
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