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Media Relations

Experts & Speakers Faculty Profile

Eugene O'Brien

Professor of Music
Composition

Executive Associate Dean; Professor of Music (Composition)

Executive Associate Dean
Jacobs School of Music

Education:

• D.M.A. at Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Institute of Music, 1983
• M.M. at University of Nebraska, 1969
• B.M. at University of Nebraska, 1967

Background:

Fulbright, Rome Prize, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships; commissions from the NEA, Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations, and Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. Performances by the Omaha Symphony, RAI Symphony Orchestra of Rome, the Cleveland Orchestra, and numerous soloists and ensembles. Awards from American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, International Society for Contemporary Music, ASCAP and BMI. Works published by MMB, Boosey & Hawkes, and G. Schirmer, and recorded on the CRI, Golden Crest, Crystal and Capstone labels. Former faculty member, Cleveland Institute of Music and Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

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