Kent Holliday
Kent Holliday studied composition with Paul Fetler and Dominick Argento at the University of Minnesota, where he received his Ph.D. in music theory-composition in 1968. He subsequently did postgraduate work in Paris, France, and at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire. In 1969 he worked with Pietro Grossi at the Studio di Fonologia S2FM in Florence, Italy, and in 1988 studied composition with Witold Szalonek of the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin, Germany. He has been teaching music composition, theory, history, piano, and other courses at Virginia Tech since 1974. His book, Reproducing Pianos Past and Present, was published by Mellen
Press in 1989. More recently, Dr. Holliday received the ASCAPLUS award for the SCI recording of his work,
Tango Exótico.
Kent’s Compositions
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