Jack Van Zandt (b. 1954) is a Grammy-winning composer of music for concerts, film and TV, and a music educator, based in Los Angeles and Ireland. He is a former pupil, as well as musical and teaching assistant to Alexander Goehr, having studied and worked with him in Cambridge between 1976 and 1985. He was recently a music faculty member at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and California Institute for the Arts (CalArts). He is a new music concert producer in Los Angeles, and a founder and co-director of the Beyond Opera Collective. Van Zandt also worked as a U.S. and Irish trade book publisher in the 1990s, and is a published professional music, arts and political op-ed writer, and journalist. His music is published by Composers Edition in Oxford, U.K.
Alexander ('Sandy') Goehr is a leading British composer and teacher. Born into a Jewish musical family in Berlin in 1932, he arrived in England in 1933 with his father, Walter, a composer, conductor, and pupil of Arnold Schoenberg; and his mother Laelia, a trained pianist from Kyiv....
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