Bottje, Will Gay
(*1925)
Bottje, Will Gay. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 30 June 1925 Bottje studied flute and composition at the Juilliard School, New York where he was a pupil of Vittorio Giannini. On graduating in 1947 he was a freelance flutist, conductor, and teacher. In Europe (1952–53) he received composition lessons from Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Henk Badings in Holland. He earned a doctorate at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York (1955), where he studied with Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson. At the…