Roger Reynolds

Roger Lee Reynolds (born July 18, 1934) is an American composer. He is known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, and for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds with those newly enabled by technology. Beyond composition, his contributions to musical life include mentorship, engagement with psychoacoustics, The Library of Congress established a Special Collection of his work in 1998. (Edition Peters is now owned by the Wise Music Group as of April 2023) and several dozen CDs and DVDs of his work have been commercially released in the US and Europe. Performances by the Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego Symphonies, among others, preceded the most recent large-scale work, george WASHINGTON, written in honor of America’s first president. This work knits together Reynolds’s career-long interest in orchestra, text, extended musical forms, intermedia, and computer spatialization of sound. Reynolds’s work embodies an American artistic idealism reflecting the influence of Varèse and Cage, as well as Xenakis, and has also been compared with that of Boulez and Scelsi. Reynolds lives with his partner of 59 years, Karen, in Del Mar, Califo