Lloyd Ultan

Biography

Lloyd Ultan (1929 - 1998) was an American composer of contemporary classical music.

Ultan received a bachelor's degree from New York University, a master's degree from Columbia University, and a doctorate from the University of Iowa. In 1971, he founded, and, from 1971 to 1974, served as Director of the Composer's Residency Program at Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Virginia.

Ultan served as chairman of the Department of Music at American University in Washington, D.C. for 13 years, and spent a year as Visiting Professor of Composition and Theory at the Royal College of Music in London. He has also lectured at Cambridge University and been a visiting composer on numerous college and university campuses in the United States.

He was a professor and chairman (and later emeritus professor and chairman) of composition, music theory, and electronic and computer music at the School of Music University of Minnesota, and also served as the Director of the Electronic/Computer Music Studio. He was responsible for founding the School of Music and served as its director from 1975 to 1986.

He composed over 60 works for a wide variety of genres including electronic music, solo and chamber works, and compositions for voice. His works have been performed and broadcast throughout the world, including in China and Taiwan. His works have been performed by the Tokyo String Quartet, the Pro Arte String Quartet, the Minnesota Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, William Blount, Alexander Braginsky, Young Nam Kim, Tanya Remenikova, and Thomas Murray. He has written numerous articles and a book, Music Theory: Compositional Problems and Practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (with an accompanying workbook/anthology).

Ultan's notable students include Edie Hill and Scott L. Miller.

Among his numerous fellowships, grants, and awards were a Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship and three residencies at the MacDowell Colony, with a Norlin/MacDowell Outstanding Composer of the Year Award for 1982.

The 160-seat Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall at the University of Minnesota's School of Music (Donald N. Ferguson Hall) is named for him.

ACE Publications

48 title(s)
Composer Title SCORING/INSTRUMENTATION Year
Lloyd Ultan BLOW, BLOW THOU WINTER WIND
SATB
Lloyd Ultan BORECHU and SHEMA satb,org
Lloyd Ultan CARLISLE CONCERTO cham orch:1-1-1-1,pf,str
Lloyd Ultan CEREAL MUSIC
Any 6 or more players with misc perc & 4voices
Lloyd Ultan CHICAGO
satb,pf
Lloyd Ultan CONCERTO FOR CELLO & ORCHESTRA vcl & orch: 2-2-2-2,2-2-2-0,2 perc,hp,str
Lloyd Ultan CONCERTO for Organ and Chamber Orchestra
organ, cham orch:hn,2tpt,2tbn,timp,str
Lloyd Ultan CONCERTO for Violin and Orchestra vln & orch:3-2-ehn-2-bcl-2-cbsn, 4-3-3-1,timp,cel/pf,hp,str
Lloyd Ultan CONFLICTS 74 Piano
Lloyd Ultan DIALOGUES 1
vln,vcl
Lloyd Ultan DIALOGUES 2
vla,vcl
Lloyd Ultan DIALOGUES 3 vln, vla
Lloyd Ultan DIGITAL DUO cl,bsn
Lloyd Ultan DIGITAL DUO ob,bsn
Lloyd Ultan DWELL IN LOVERS' EYES
msop, pf
Lloyd Ultan EPITHALAMIUM BREVIS sop(or ten),vln,vla,vcl
Lloyd Ultan FANFARE:TO A NEW ERA
midi grand piano
Lloyd Ultan FOUR CHILDREN'S PIECES
Lloyd Ultan GREGORIAN SUITE gtr
Lloyd Ultan I WILL GIVE YOU SHEPHERDS
Tenor ,org (or pf)
Lloyd Ultan INTROSPECTIONS & ALLEGORIES
cl,synth
Lloyd Ultan IRREVERENCES tpt,tbn
Lloyd Ultan LOVE'S NOT TIME'S FOOL sop,vln,vla
Lloyd Ultan MAN WITH A HOE, THE large chorus, SATB soli, orch: pic-3-2-eh-2-bcl-bsn; 4-3-3-1; timp, perc; hp, str
Lloyd Ultan MONADNOCK MOODS cl

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