William Penn

p, syn, voc, *1943 BE
Composer of Classical and Electronic

American composer William Penn (born 1943) graduated from Buffalo University in 1967 where he studied Northern Renaissance music, Theater Music with Maurizio Kagel and serialism with Belgian composer Henri Pousseur. He has worked as a studio musician in New York City, pianist, composer, arranger, as a university teacher, and as producer for Arizona University Recordings. Penn is the recipient of over twenty-five ASCAP music composition awards in both "serious" and "pop" categories, two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards, as well as various National Endowment for the Arts & Meet the Composer awards.

Instruments

Piano
Synthesizer
Vocals

Genres

Classical
Electronic
Folk
World

Popular Tracks

Encore Une Fois on C'est MAGNIFIQUE: Chansons de Paris by Various Artists

They That Love Beyond The World on Poems for Funerals by Emma Topping

Waltz for L.A. on Pierre HERBINEAUX, harmonica: Flight of the Bumble-Bee by Pierre Herbineaux

Slippery Sally on Pierre HERBINEAUX, harmonica: Flight of the Bumble-Bee by Pierre Herbineaux

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Discography

Title	Artist	Year	Type
UConn Premieres	David Maslanka, William Penn - The University Of Connecticut Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Gary Green	1992	Album
The Twentieth Century Consort	The Twentieth Century Consort, Christopher Kendall - Joseph Schwantner / Gerald Chenoweth / William Penn / Maurice Wright / George Rochberg	1981	Album
The Music of Shakespeare Volume 1	William Penn	1978	Album
Crystal Rainbows, The Sounds Of Harmonious Craft	William Penn	1978	Album
Fantasy / 4 Preludes / Echoes / Automobile	William Penn / Olly Wilson / Russell Peck	1977	Album
Instrumental Music (Concerto For Trombone And Orchestra / Prelude, Fugue And Big Apple / Modus Caelestis / Ultra Mensuram)	Walter Ross / Joseph Schwantner / William Penn	1975	Album

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