Joel Spiegelman

Joel Spiegelman (January 23, 1933 – November 13, 2023) was an American composer, conductor, concert pianist, harpsichordist, recording artist, arranger, author and professor.

Joel Spiegelman was educated at Yale, The University of Buffalo, Brandeis University, the Paris Conservatory (class of Nadia Boulanger), Moscow’s Gnesin Institute, and the Leningrad Conservatory.

As a composer, Spiegelman was widely known for his blending of techniques from traditional classical music, dodecaphonic music, aleatoric music, gospel, Russian folk, and electronic idioms. He wrote original music for string quartet, piano trio, piano quintet, chamber music with percussion, solo instruments, wind ensembles, symphony orchestra, ballet, film, choral and vocal music. Provided by Wikipedia