Background
Benson, Warren Frank was born on January 26, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Fred William and Ella Alma (Hermenau) Benson.
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Benson, Warren Frank was born on January 26, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Fred William and Ella Alma (Hermenau) Benson.
Bachelor of Music in Theory, University of Michigan, 1949; Master of Music in Theory, University of Michigan, 1951.
His compositions consist mostly of music for wind instruments and percussion. His most notable piece is titled The Leaves Are Falling. Born in 1924, and a professional performer by the age of 14, Warren Benson played timpani in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Ormandy, Reiner, Goossens, Bernstein, and others while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan.
From 1950-1952, Benson was awarded two successive Fulbright grants to teach at Anatolia College in Salonika, Greece.
There he established a five-year bilingual music curriculum and organized the Anatolia College Chorale, the first scholastic co-educational choral group in that country. After 14 years at Ithaca College (where, in 1953, he organized the first touring percussion ensemble in the eastern United States – and the second worldwide), Mr.
Benson became professor of composition at Eastman. During his tenure (1967-1993), he was honored with an Alumni Citation for Excellence, the Kilbourn professorship for distinguished teaching, and was named University Mentor.
In 1994 he was appointed Professor Emeritus.
He also served as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Southern Methodist University from 1986-1988. As a composer, Benson is best known for his moving song cycles and dynamic works for percussion and winds. Warren Benson is also the subject of a bio-bibliography by Alan Wagner, published earlier this year by Edwin Mellen Press.
His notable students include Michael Glenn Williams, Eric Ewazen, Claude Baker, Robert Paterson, Gordon Stout, John Joseph Davye, Paul Phillips, Roger Briggs, Martin Amlin and Michael Udow.
A Warren Benson is in the process of being established at the Sibley Music Library, and the Benson family will endow the creation of the Warren and Pat Benson Forum on Creativity.
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Member American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Serious Music awards since 1960), American Bandmasters Association, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha (national honorary member Orpheus award), Kappa Kappa Psi.
Married Patricia Louise Vander Velde, November 19, 1949. Children: Erika, Dirk, Kirsten, Sonja.