Richard Felciano

Richard Felciano (born December 7, 1930) is an American composer.

Felciano was born in Santa Rosa, California and studied at San Francisco State College where he received his BA in 1952. In the same year he also obtained an MA from Mills College, where he studied composition with Darius Milhaud (Hersh 2001). He continued his studies with Milhaud at the Paris Conservatoire, where he received two diplomas in 1955, and went on to study privately in Florence for a year (1958–59) with Luigi Dallapiccola. He also earned a PhD from the University of Iowa in 1959. (Christiansen 1977, 5). He taught at Lone Mountain College and the University of California, Berkeley before becoming composer-in-residence for the city of Boston from 1971–73 (Hersh 2001).