American pianist, professor and composer. Plainfield, NJ, December 30, 1930. She studied the piano at the Eastman School of Music from 1948 to 1949 and received her A.B. from the Wellesley College, 1952. She also studied the piano under Bruce Simonds of Yale University in 1954, composition under Arthur Kreutz from 1956 to 1958 and John Boda, 1963 to 1964 and 1967 to 1968. At the University of Mississippi she received a M.Mus. in 1958, then a Mus.D. from Florida State University, 1968. During the summer of 1972 she...