Eugene O'Brien (composer)

Eugene O'Brien (b. 24 April 1945) is an American composer who has been a member of the faculty at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 1987. He was chair of the Composition Department from 1994 to 1999, and is currently the Executive Associate Dean . He has also been a member of the composition faculties at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Biographies and descriptions of his work are included in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music.

Mr. O’Brien was born in Paterson, N.J., and studied composition with Robert Beadell, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, John Eaton, Iannis Xenakis and Donald Erb. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Nebraska, undertook post-graduate studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Köln, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music / Case Western Reserve University.

Eugene O'Brien is the recipient of the Academy Award in Music of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 1971 the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome (Elegy for Bernd alois Zimmermann, soprano and chamber ensemble), composer Eugene O’Brien has received awards from BMI (1967, 1970),ASCAP, and the League of Composers / International Society for Contemporary Music, and Cleveland Arts Prize. He has received Guggenheim,Rockefeller, Fulbright, National Endowment for the Arts and other fellowships, and has been commissioned by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation in the Library of Congress, by the Meet-the-Composer / Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund, and by many American and European performers and ensembles.

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