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Bruce MacCombie

Bruce MacCombie (1943 in Providence, Rhode Island – May 2, 2012, in Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American composer. He studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Freiburg Conservatory,

Bruce MacCombie (1943 in Providence, Rhode Island – May 2, 2012, in Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American composer. He studied at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Freiburg Conservatory, and holds a Ph.D. in music from the University of Iowa. He was appointed to the music faculty of Yale University in 1975, and one year later joined the composition faculty of the Yale School of Music. MacCombie was Director of Publications for G. Schirmer and Associated Music Publishers from 1980 to 1986, Dean of the Juilliard School from 1986 to 1992 and Dean of the School for the Arts at Boston University from 1992 to 2001. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Amherst at Amherst. He was succeeded by Derek Gordon in 2004. References External links * Profile at University of Massachusetts Amherst * Five Colleges New Music Festival profile * Juilliard School press release * Boston University’s B.U. Bridge News on MacCombie * Schott Music profile * Schott Music promoting Color and Time * Schott Music promoting Elegy

Era
Post-War
Lived
1943–2012
From
United States
Born in
Providence · died Amherst
Known as
composer

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.