Dennis Eberhard

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Dennis Eberhard
Birth name	Dennis Eberhard
Born	1943 Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Died	2005 Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Genre(s)	chamber music, orchestral music
Occupation(s)	composer
Label(s)	Naxos American Classics
Associated acts	Cleveland Composer Guild, Vox Novus

Dennis Eberhard (born 1943 Cleveland, Ohio, died 2005 Cleveland) was an American composer. In his youth he was cripled with polio, which contributed to respiratory problems that contributed to his death in 2005. Eberhard was an active composer for more than 30 years and was a member of the Cleveland Composers Guild and Vox Novus. ^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

He was educated at Cleveland Institute of Music, Kent State University, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the Chopin Institute in Warsaw, Poland. His teachers included: Marie Martin, Frederic Coulter, Salvatore Martirano, Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Gordon Mumma and Herbert Brün.

In his lifetime he received a Fulbright Grant, a Rome Prize Fellowship, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, five grants from the Ohio Arts Council, three MacDowell Colony Residency Grants, the Cleveland Arts Prize, the 1990 Award of Achievement in Classical Music from Northern Ohio Live Magazine, and the 1993 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Kent State University.