Gerald Plain

Education:

BME (music/art) - Murray State University, 1963 (Murray, Kentucky)

MM (composition) - Butler University, 1966 (Indianapolis, Indiana)

Post-Graduate Study (comp.) - University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)

     At the University of Michigan he underwent five years of intensive study with composers Ross Lee Finney and Leslie Bassett.

Teachers in Composition:

Ross Lee Finney

Leslie Bassett

George B. Wilson

Niccolò Castiglioni

Eugene Kurtz

Philip Slates

Neale B. Mason (theory, counterpoint)

Larry Hurst (double bass)

Teaching Experience:

Texas Tech University,  Visiting Assistant Professor,  1971-72  (Lubbock, Texas)

DePaul University,  Instructor,  1973-74  (Chicago, Illinois)

Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University,  Instructor,  1974

University of Wisconsin (Stevens Point),  Instructor,  1977-78

Eastman School of Music,  Assistant Professor,  1978-81  (Rochester, New York)

Prizes, Grants, and Awards:

Rackham Block Grant for Graduate Study,  Univ. of Michigan,  1967-68

Rome Prize Fellowship (Prix de Rome), two years at the American Academy in Rome,  1974-76

Fourth Prize on Ripsnorter - IV Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique,  Bourges  1976

and left ol’ Joe a bone, AMAZING! - Competition for Orchestral

Compositions,  Contemporary Music Festival (1977),  Indiana State

University (Terre Haute),  Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship Grant,  1977

and left ol’ Joe a bone, AMAZING! - National Composer Competition,

The League of Composers - International Society for Contemporary Music,  1978

Violin Concerto - Prince Pierre of Monaco Musical Composition Prize,  1980

Resident:  The Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc.  (Austerlitz, NY),  January 1987

Charles Ives Fellowship - 1988,  Awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters  (NYC)

Portrait 1: Sally Goodin - Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance

Grant,  Program of the American Music Center, 1990

Artists’ Fellowship,  Program of the New York Foundation for the Arts,  1990-91

Academy Award in Music - 2001,  Awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters  (NYC)

Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship - 2011,  Kentucky Arts Council