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-== Biography ==
-Born: September 6, 1923 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A <br />
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-Country: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A <br />
-Studies: Columbia University (B.S.1951, M.A.1954), Juilliard
-Teachers: Norman Lockwood, Henry Cowell, Jack Beeson, Otto Luening
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-William Kraft (b. 1923, Chicago) has had a long and active career as composer, conductor, timpanist/percussionist and teacher. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served for 11 years (1991 - 2002) as Chairman of the Composition Department and Corwin Professor of Music Composition. From 1981 -85, Mr. Kraft was the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Composer-in-Residence, for the first year under Philharmonic auspices, and the subsequent three years through the Meet the Composer program. During his residency, he was appointed by executive director Ernest
-Fleischmann to serve as the founding director of the orchestra's performing arm for contemporary music, the Philharmonic New Music Group. Mr. Kraft had previously been a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 26 years; eight years as percussionist, and 18 as Principal Timpanist. For three seasons, he was also assistant conductor of the orchestra, and thereafter, frequent guest conductor. (For more...)<ref>http://www.billkraft.com/</ref>
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-== Works for Percussion ==
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-== References ==
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-[[Category:Timpani]]
-[[Category:Marimba]]
-[[Category:Snare Drum]]
-[[Category:Trumpet]]
-[[Category:Trombone]]
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-[[Category:Cello]]
-[[Category:Orchestra]]
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-[[Category:Chorus]]
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