Andrew Imbrie

Andrew Welsh Imbrie (April 6, 1921 – December 5, 2007) was an American contemporary classical music composer and pianist. Career Imbrie was born in New York City and began his musical training as a pianist when he was 4. In 1937, he went to Paris to study composition briefly with Nadia Boulanger and piano with Robert Casadesus. His notable students include Larry Austin, Tamar Diesendruck, Richard Festinger, Alden Jenks, Frank La Rocca, Neil Rolnick, Valerie Samson, Allen Shearer, Laura Schwendinger, Nils Frykdahl, Kurt Rohde, Hi Kyung Kim, Leslie Wildman and Carolyn Yarnell. Style Imbrie’s style was influenced early by Béla Bartók, and then by Roger Sessions, his teacher at both Princeton and Berkeley. Imbrie preferred harmony that was non-triadic, * Three Against Christmas (1960 opera) * Angle of Repose (1976 opera) * Dandelion Wine (1961 for chamber ensemble) * To a Traveler (1971 for chamber ensemble) * Sextet for Six Friends (2007 for chamber ensemble) * Drumtaps for chorus with orchestra (text by Whitman) * Prometheus Bound for chorus with orchestra (text by Green after Aeschylus) * Adam for chorus with orchestra (text from medieval and Civil War sources) * Requiem (1984, chor