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.

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    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 ob,bsn
    Lloyd Ultan DIGITAL DUO cl,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

    Additional Works