Background
Constanten, Thomas Charles Sture Hills was born on March 19, 1944 in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas King Hills and Lilian (Sture) Constanten.
Constanten, Thomas Charles Sture Hills was born on March 19, 1944 in Long Branch, New Jersey, United States. Son of Thomas King Hills and Lilian (Sture) Constanten.
Studies with, Luciano Berio, Henri Pousseur, Pierre Boulez and Karl Heinz Stockhausen, 1961-1963.
Solo pianist, United States and Europe, since 1961; keyboardist, The Grateful Dead, San Francisco, 1968-1970; composer, music director off-Broadway play, Tarot, New York City, 1970-1971; professor music, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1974-1975; instructor, Community Music Center, San Francisco, 1980-1990; professor, San Francisco The Art Institute of Chicago, 1984; music director West Coast Weekend show, Station KQED-FM, San Francisco, 1986-1993. Composer-in-residence various music festivals, United States and Europe, since 1976. Visiting lecturer Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986.
Served as sergeant United States Air Force, 1965-1968. Member American Federation Musicians, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Composers award 1971).
Married Catherine Carroll Donnelly, July 26, 1970 (divorced February 1985). Married Virginia JoAnne Morgan, February 14, 1986. Married Beth Elaine Diggs, June 6, 1993.
1 child, Clarissa Lee.
