Colgrass, Michael (Charles)
(*1932)
Colgrass, Michael (Charles). 22 April, 1932: Chicago, Illinois At the University of Illinois, Urbana (1950–54), Colgrass studied percussion and composition. At Tanglewood, Massachusetts, he was a pupil of Lukas Foss (1952, 1954); at Aspen, Colorado, he received lessons from Darius Milhaud. In New York City he studied with Wallingford Riegger (1958) and Ben Weber (1958–60). He was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships (1964, 1968) and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. Currently he lives in Toronto…