Harry Martin Herman III

Background

III, Harry Martin Herman was born on March 7, 1953 in York, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Harry Martin Herman Junior and Patricia Ann (Wetzel) Hansen.

Education

Bachelor, Duke U., 1976; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1979; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.

Career

Director, Scholar Cantorum, Atlanta, 1979-1981; president, artistic director, Music Alliance Inc., Atlanta, 1980-1984; assistant to the director, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, 1984-1985; independent researcher, I'nstitut de recherche et coordination d'acoustique et musique, Paris, 1985-1987; exchange scholar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1987-1989; instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1988-1989; associate professor, California State University, Long Beach, since 1989. Visiting assistant professor Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, 1981. Composer-in-residence Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta, 1981, 82, Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France, 1983, 87.

Affiliate artist Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, 1989.

Achievements

• Harry Martin Herman III has been listed as a noteworthy Music composition educator, composer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Composer and panelist International Computer Music Conference, Tokyo, 1993. Member Broadcast Music Inc. (affiliate composer), Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, American Music Center, College Music Society, SmithsonianInstn., United States Lighthouse Society.

Interests

• Avocations: astronomy, camping, skiing.

Connections

Married Christen Kay Smith, May 11, 1985. Children: Paul Alexander, Kaija Rose.

Father:

Harry Martin Herman Hansen Junior

Mother:

Patricia Ann (Wetzel) Hansen

Spouse:

Christen Kay Smith

child:

Kaija Rose III

child:

Paul Alexander III