B.M., M.M., D.M.A., The Juilliard School with Vincent Persichetti and Elliott Carter. Professional studies: Peter Maxwell Davies, Elie Siegmeister, Andrew Thomas; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conducting), Harold Farberman (conducting)

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Ronald Caltabiano first came to international attention in the early 1980s with his String Quartet No. 1, premiered in Great Britain by the Arditti Quartet and in the United States by the Juilliard Quartet. Orchestral commissions and perforamances by the San Francisco Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, the BBC Symphony, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Notable chamber works include Concerto for Six Players, commissioned by the Fires of London for their farewell performance; On the Dissonant and Rotations, both commissioned by Australian ensembles; and prominent commissions by American organizations, including the String Quartet No. 2 (Emerson Quartet), Quilt Panels (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), and Clarinet Quartet (consortium of new-music ensembles). Vocal works include song cycles, dramatic cantatas, and a chamber opera, Marrying the Hangman, on a text by Margaret Atwood. Major awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation were anticipated by a number of awards from BMI and ASCAP as well as two Bearns Prizes. Since working as assistant to Aaron Copland during the last five years of that composer's life, Caltabiano served on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the Peabody Conservatory before coming to SFSU. For additional information, see his entry in the New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians.