Mary Lynn Twombly Aprahamian [1] (born 8 January 1935) [2] is an American composer, [3] conductor, and pianist who publishes under the name Mary Lynn Twombly. [4]
Twombly was born in New York. From 1952 to 1954, she studied with Meyer Kupferman at Sarah Lawrence College; from 1954 to 1958 with Vittorio Giannini at the Manhattan School of Music; and from 1971 to 1972, she studied electronic music with Elias Tanenbaum. In 1973 she attended music workshops at Fairleigh Dickinson University. [5]
Twombly received the Harold Bauer Piano Award from the Manhattan School of Music in 1957. She received at least one commission from the Little Orchestra Society in 1960, possibly for Alice in Wonderland, [6] which was published and performed in New York that year. She conducted and composed music for films and recordings for Weston Woods Studios from 1966 to 1967. [7] She was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). [8]
Twombly's compositions include:
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Regina Kastberg Hansen Willman was an American composer, born in Burns, Wyoming. She married Allan Arthur Willman in 1942; they divorced in 1956, but remained close throughout her life. Willman received a B.M. from the University of Wyoming in 1945, and a M.M. from the University of New Mexico in 1961. She studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College, Roy Harris at Colorado College, and pursued further studies at the University of California, Berkeley, the Juilliard School, the Sorbonne, and the Lausanne Conservatory. Willman was the resident composer of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico, from 1956–57 and 1960-61. Her papers are archived at the University of Wyoming.
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