Background
Lindgren, Erik Richard K. was born on December 15, 1954 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert Malcolm and Jane (Cleveland) Lindgren.
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Erik Richard K. Lindgren
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He attended Northfield Mount Hermon School from 1969–1972, and received his Bachelor in Music from Tufts University in 1976 where he worked with T. J. Anderson. Lindgren received an Master of Arts in music composition and piano performance from the University of Iowa in 1977 where he studied with Donald Jenni, Richard Hervig and Peter Lewis.
Career
He runs Arf! Arf! In 1974-1975 he spent his junior year abroad in London studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music with Alfred Nieman and piano with Birgette Wild. As a contemporary classical composer, Lindgren has a catalog of over six dozen works, ranging from solo piano pieces to chamber music to orchestral works. He also owns Foot Foot Music BMI which publishes all of his original compositions.
In 1978, Lindgren established Sounds Interesting Productions, a commercial recording studio and music production company based in Cambridge, Master of Arts. In 1998, he relocated his facility to Middleborough, Master of Arts. National and regional credits include original scores for American Broadcasting Company, National Broadcasting Company Columbia Broadcasting System and Public Broadcasting Service, Eastpak, Boston Globe, Basketball Hall Of Fame, Jordan Marsh, Polaroid, Prentice Hall and the Christmas Tree Shops.
Lindgren also markets The Well-Tempered Music Library that consists of seven CDs of stock commercial music that he composed and produced. Birdsongs’ has recorded for the Rykodisc, Cuneiform and Ace of Hearts labels and released an album in 2005.
Recently the group collaborated with Duplex Planet editor/National Public Radio correspondent David Greenberger on 1001 Real Apes. The composer celebrated his 50th Birthday performing live, original works, at The Longy School of Music, Pickman Hall, Cambridge, Master of Arts (June 4, 2005).
Arf! Arf! Records
Foreign over twenty years, Lindgren has run the Arf! Arf label which has released six-dozen archival CDs documenting ’60s Garage/Psychedelic Rock and “Outsider Music.” "Arf! Arf!" issued four Civil Defense retrospectives by his ’80s experimental studio group The Space Negros.
Lindgren has also produced over one hundred records for such diverse artists as Willie Loco Alexander, the Rising Storm, The Turbines, The Cynics, Magic Mose & his Royal Rockers, featuring "Blind Sam," Editor “Moose” Savage And His Litany Of Complaints, and harmonica virtuoso Richard Hunter. In addition, he runs the SFZ Recordings label which has released his 1999 release "Erik Lindgren Scores" (SFZ-001) consisting of acoustic chamber works with ambient visuals, and the 2008 release by the Frankenstein Consort "Classical A-Go-Go" (SFZ-004) which is one of his performing ensembles consisting of music for woodwind trio, piano, and percussion. Additional information about Erik LIndgren can be found on his personal site at.
Achievements
Membership
Records, and has led (or been a member of) several ensembles such as The Moving Parts, The Space Negros, The Rising Storm, and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. Lindgren was a founding member of the new music ensemble Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic that Billboard Magazine described as “a mesmerizing venture into the space age jungle.” The quartet has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada and held residencies at Dartmouth College, Emory University, Duke, United Nations Correspondents Association, New York and the Massachusetts College of Artist
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Connections
Married Derel Lee Twombly, Nov.1990.
