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== Biography ==
 
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Born: September 6, 1923 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A <br />
 
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Country: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A <br />
 
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Studies: Columbia University (B.S.1951, M.A.1954), Juilliard
 
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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
 
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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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