Who are your compositional ancestors?

I don't expect everyone to know this, and not everyone has an instructor presently, which is no big deal.

Who are your compositional ancestors? Who are you studying with, and who did they study with, and who did they study with, etc?

Otto Luening, Vittorio Giannini and Paul Creston

I couldn't find anymore back from those three. I think it's cool about the Creston business because I just got through playing the Creston Marimba Concerto with our schools band. I think it's interesting to see who's been taught by who, and such, and I'm sure many people here will have really interesting 'musical genealogies' so to speak.

Just so everyone's clear on this, this is not a thread to brag about who you've been taught by, because that doesn't in any way validate your existence.

Ellero Lozano - Andre Segovia

Sharon Isbin > Segovia and Tureck

Dan Welcher > No idea

I studied with - John Clement Adams

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John Clement Adams studied with - Earl Kim, Alan Stout, Seymour Shiffrin, Leon Kirchner and Jacob Druckman.

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Ear Kim studied with - Ernest Bloch, Roger Sessions and Arnold Schoenberg.

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Leon Kirchner studied with - Ernest Bloch and Arnold Schoenberg.

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Jacob Druckman Studied with - Vincent Persichetti, Peter Menin and Aaron Copland

David Ng> studied with Yeh yu lian

ye yu lian> Zhang xiang lin

Zhang xiang lin> Mo yu

Mo yu> ?(He went to vienna to study music but heck thats so long ago, and oh, hes not alive...)

I am studying with Paul Newland, who has studied with Jo Kondo, Simon Holt, Birtwistle and Finnissy.

It's a really fun idea, that one :)

Not to be picky or anything but shouldn't the title be "Who are your compositional ancestors?" and not "Who is your compositional ancestors?".

As for me, I unfortunately can't participate since I'm entirely self-taught.

I'm self taught, so none here... and I plan to keep it that way.

Haha. That is true, about the title. My only excuse is that I've been fried lately. We have a composition concert, and the composer whose marimba piece I am performing decided that she wants both movements instead of just the first, like I'd planned, so I'm learning this second movement and trying to make it sound like something musical by Friday. And so, I'm not sleeping, and my grammar unfortunately suffers. The only reason this makes sense is that somehow my 7:30 alarm didn't go off, and so I didn't wake to practice, and so I actually got a night's worth of sleep.

First Generation

Fran

Ted Jones, my mentor.

Lewellyn Jones, his teacher (no relation to Ted)

Sir Edward Elgar (Lewellyn's composition instructor)

and, indirectly, Debussy (Lewellyn Jones got to observe him improvising).

That also connects me with Yehudi Menuhin via Sir Edward Elgar, and then through Menuhin, Ravi Shankar and the Beatles! Haha. Oh! And The Matrix soundtrack since the one song is basically a techno remix of Sir Edward Elgar's Enigma variations =)

Ted Jones, my mentor.

Oh wow, I had to read that two times to make sure you didn't say TOM JONES was your mentor, because if he was that'd be so amazing. Like, wow. Tom Jones. I don't really care much for his music honestly but someone considering him a mentor is just downright gold.

No offense intended to Ted, Tom, or otherwise other Jones's's's's who happen to have a first name starting with T.

My teacher studied with Milko Kelemen, a Croatian-born modernist.

Kelemen studied with Messiaen.

Messiaen studied with Paul Dukas

Dukas studied with Ernest Guiraud.

Guiraud studied with Fromental Hal

I think stopping at Messiaen would suffice :X

I'm self-taught, but I have a familial ancestor who is a composer-- James Horner. (The probability that I'm lying is high, so don't believe this.)

Also, I once exchanged e-mails with Yasunori Mitsuda and received compositional advice, if this qualifies...

im selfthought to:=)

Also, I once exchanged e-mails with Yasunori Mitsuda and received compositional advice, if this qualifies...

YOU WHAT???

Oh wow! I want to mail my favorite j-composers too, but they're so hard to reach...

Self taught;)