McKAY, Frances Thompson

McKAY, Frances Thompson American pianist, lecturer and composer. Newport, VA, April 24, 1947. She obtained her B.A. from Mary Baldwin College in 1969; her M.A. (composition) from the University of Virginia in 1972 and her D.M.A. from the Peabody Conservatory in 1982. She studied composition under Robert Hall Lewis at Peabody and Nadia Boulanger (q.v.) in Fountainbleau and Paris, the piano under Carl Broman at Mary Baldwin College and Marjorie Mitchell at Virginia University. She lectured at…