Celebrated avant-garde composer Philip Glass carved out a significant niche for himself with innovative and bold orchestrations that won him an international reputation and cult following as the most recognized practitioner of minimalism. ROLLING STONE magazine has called the creator of the ground-breaking operatic classic "Einstein on the Beach" (1976) the most important living composer, and though many have dismissed his work as repetitive, he has effectively employed his hypnotic recycled arpeggios, staggered pacing and oft-glacial chord movements to enhance the visual elements in films,
Began studying the violin at age 6 and the flute at age 8
1962
Was composer-in-residence, Pittsburgh Public Schools
1964
Went to Paris on a Fulbright grant to study with Nadia Boulanger
While in Paris, hired to transcribe the Indian music of Ravi Shankar in notation readable by French musicians for the soundtrack to the film "Chappaqua"
