Lerdahl, Fred

About Me
Position/Title:
Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition
MFA composition (Princeton 1967)

Fred Lerdahl taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University, at Columbia from 1979-85, and subsequently at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, before returning to Columbia in 1991.

He has received the Koussevitzky Composition Prize (1966), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1974-75), two awards from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1971, 1988), an NEH Fellowship (1991), and other awards, and many commissions for compositions.