TOWER, Joan
(*1938)> PIANIST · LECTURER · COMPOSER
TOWER, Joan American pianist, lecturer and composer. New Rochelle, NY, September 6, 1938. She obtained her B.A. from Bennington College, VT, her M.A. (theory and history of music), in 1967 and D.M.A. (composition) from Columbia University. From 1968 to 1971 she studied composition under Henry Brant, Louis Calabro, Wallingford Riegger and Darius Milhaud. Her composition teachers at Columbia included Otto Luening, Jack Beeson, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Chou Wen-Chung, Charles Wourinen, Ralph Shapey…