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Kent Holliday is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, and a graduate of Hamline University where he majored in music and philosophy. He studied composition with Paul Fetler and Dominick Argento at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and received a Ph.D. degree in music theory-composition in 1968. He pursued post-graduate work in electronic composition at the S2fFM studio in Florence, Italy in 1969 and under an NEH grant at Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire in 1972. His compositions have received numerous awards, including first place in the Virginia Music Teachers Association composition competition in 1983. His book Reproducing Pianos Past and Present was published by Edward Mellen Press in 1989. Professor Holliday currently teaches in the music and humanities departments at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia where he has resided since 1974. |