Ronald Caltabiano
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Ronald Caltabiano (b. November 12, 1959) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, with his music showing elements of modernism and romanticism.
He holds B.M., M.M., and D.M.A. degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied composition with Elliott Carter and Vincent Persichetti. He has also studied composition with Peter Maxwell Davies and conducting with Harold Farberman and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. His music has been performed by the Emerson String Quartet.
He worked as an assistant to Aaron Copland during the last five years of that composer's life, and has served on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the Peabody Conservatory.
He lives in San Francisco, California.