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Rzewski’s early men- tors and colleagues present a highly distinguished cross- section of 20th- century music. A Massachusetts native himself, he studied at Harvard with Randall Thompson and Walter Piston, fol- lowed by graduate work at Princeton with Roger Sessions and Milton Babbitt.
He also studied with Luigi Dallapiccola in Italy and Elliott Carter in Berlin, and became friends with Christian Wolff, John Cage, and David Tudor.
Frederic rzewski coming together as a community
He teaches composition himself, on the faculty of the of the conservatory in Liege, Belgium; he has also taught at other institutions in Europe and the U.S., includ- ing CalArts and UCSD.
Although he did not consider music seriously as a career until college, Rzewski did study piano from early youth and is a brilliant performer.
In Italy in the 1960s, he formed Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum, and the group became well-known for pioneer- ing work in live electronics and improvisa- tion. He continues to perform and wa