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,
until he joined
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