Nathan Currier
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Nathan Currier (1960, born Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) is an American composer.
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Coming from a musical family, composer Nathan Currier is son of composer Marilyn Currier (1931) and brother of composer Sebastian Currier (1958). Winner of a 1999 Academy Award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, a lifetime achievement award, and winner of the Rome Prize for Composition from the American Academy in Rome in 1995, Currier has frequently been honored for his works. His principal teachers were David Diamond, Joseph Schwantner, Bernard Rands, Stephen Albert and Frederic Rzewski. He studied at the Juilliard School, where he received the Doctorate in 1989.
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