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He studied with Louis Andriessen, Gilbert Amy, Allen Forte and Martin Bresnick.
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Jeffrey Brooks
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Brooks composed the popular work, Dreadnought, for wind ensemble as well as several works for Bang on a Canada Brooks holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and Yale University. In the mid-1980s, at Yale and Tanglewood, he met Steve Martland, Art Jarvinen, Eleanor Hovda, Michael Gordon and David Language, who have remained the most important influences in his musical life to this day.
Brooks has composed, with few exceptions, instrumental works, from the very small, What Bird am I Thinking of, for piano trio, to the very large, Dreadnought, John Henry, Funeral Music and Providence, all for forces of sixty-plus musicians.
