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Terry Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer associated with
the minimalist school.
Life Born in Colfax, California, Riley studied at Shasta College, San
Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Conservatory before
earning an MA in composition at the University of California, Berkeley,
studying with Seymour Shifrin and Robert Erickson. He was involved in the
experimental San Francisco Tape Music Center working with Morton Subotnick,
Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, and Ramon Sender. His most influential
teacher, however, was Pandit Pran Nath (1918–1996), a master of Indian
classical voice, who also taught La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. Riley
made numerous trips to India over the course of their association to study
and to accompany him on tabla, tambura, and voice. Throughout the 1960s he
traveled frequently around Europe as well, taking in musical influences and
supporting himself by playing in piano bars, un
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