Ulysses Kay [SEP] place of birth
Ulysses Kay
Ulysses Simpson Kay (January 7, 1917 in Tucson, Arizona – May 20, 1995 in Englewood, New Jersey) was an African-American composer. His music is mostly neoclassical in style.
Life and career.
Kay, the nephew of the classic jazz musician King Oliver, studied piano, violin and saxophone. He attended the University of Arizona, where he was encouraged by the African-American composer William Grant Still. He went for graduate work to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester
in 1985. The first European conference of the Conductors Guild took place in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2010.
Guild events have featured leading figures in the world of concert music, including Pierre Boulez, Catherine Comet, David Zinman, Leonard Slatkin, Chen Yi, Frederick Fennell, Norman Dello Joio, Gunther Schuller, James Levine, Ulysses Kay, Keith Lockhart,and Alan Gilbert,
Presidents.
- Harold Farberman (1975–1979)
- Charles A. Ansbacher (1979–1981, 1986)
- Maurice Peress (1981–1983)