Background
Mr. O’Brien was born in Paterson, N.J., and studied composition with Robert Beadell, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, John Eaton, Iannis Xenakis and Donald Erb.
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Mr. O’Brien was born in Paterson, N.J., and studied composition with Robert Beadell, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, John Eaton, Iannis Xenakis and Donald Erb.
Mr. O’Brien was born in Paterson, N.J., and studied composition with Robert Beadell, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, John Eaton, Iannis Xenakis and Donald Erb. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Nebraska, undertook post-graduate studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Köln, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and received his Doctor of al Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of / Case Western Reserve University.
He was chair of the Composition Department from 1994 to 1999, and is currently the Executive Associate Dean. Biographies and descriptions of his work are included in the New Grove Dictionary of American , Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of ians, and the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Mr.
Eugene O'Brien is the recipient of the Academy Award in of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 1971 the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome (Elegy for Bernd alois Zimmermann, soprano and chamber ensemble), composer Eugene O’Brien has received awards from BMI (1967, 1970), ASCAP, and the League of Composers / International Society for Contemporary , and Cleveland Arts Prize. He has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts and other fellowships, and has been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, by the Meet-the-Composer / Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund, and by many American and European performers and ensembles.
He has also been a member of the composition faculties at the Cleveland Institute of and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
