American composer Lejaren Hiller (February 23, 1924, New York City - January 26, 1994, Buffalo, New York) founded the Experimental Music Studio at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1958 and collaborated on the first significant computer music composition, 1957's Illiac Suite, with Leonard Issacson.

He also collaborated with John Cage for HPSCHD and taught James Tenney.

In 1968, he joined the faculty at University at Buffalo as Slee Professor of Composition, where he established the first computer music facility and codirected with Lukas Foss the celebrated Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. His illness forced him to retire in 1989.

External links

• Lejaren Hiller with a MIDI of Seven Artifacts
• Lejaren Hiller (1924-1994) © 1994 by Peter Gena.
• Biography of Hiller

1924 births | 1994 deaths | 20th century classical composers | American composers | People from Buffalo, New York | University at Buffalo alumni

Lejaren Hiller