Born in St. Louis in 1950, Ethan Haimo began his musical training with instrumental lessons in piano and violin. His undergraduate work was completed at the University of Chicago, where his composition instructors were Ralph Shapey and Roger Sessions, and was followed by graduate studies at Princeton University with Milton Babbitt and J.K. Randall. In addition to his work as a composer, Haimo is also active as a theorist. He has written numerous articles and reviews, as well as books which consider the evolution of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone system and which examine form in the symphonies of Haydn.
Apart from his Symphony for Strings introduced here, several of Haimo’s solo and chamber compositions, which have met with considerable critical acclaim, may be heard on a recent Centaur Records compact disc (CRC 2253) devoted to his music: String Trio, Sonata for Piano, Rhapsody for Violin and Piano, Swenson Songs, Contrasts for Cello and Piano, and Three Etudes for Piano.
Haimo is Professor of Music at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana). |
