SHIELDS, Alice Ferree
(*1943)> TEACHER · SINGER · COMPOSER
SHIELDS, Alice Ferree American teacher, singer and composer, New York, 1943. She studied composition under Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening at Columbia-Princeton electronic music center, earning a B.S. (Music) and an M.A. (composition) from Columbia University. She followed a career as a singer with the Metropolitan Opera and Lake George Opera Festivals. She is teaching assistant in electronic music at Columbia University. Among honors awarded her were a Presser Foundation grant in 1970…