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Marvin Lamb | |
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| Birth name | Marvin Lee Lamb |
| Born | July 12, 1946 Jacksonville, Texas |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Years active | 1968–present |
Marvin Lee Lamb (born July 12, 1946) is an American composer, music pedagogue and conductor.
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Marvin Lamb | |
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| Birth name | Marvin Lee Lamb |
| Born | July 12, 1946 Jacksonville, Texas |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Years active | 1968–present |
Marvin Lee Lamb (born July 12, 1946) is an American composer, music pedagogue and conductor.
Lamb was born in Jacksonville, Texas, studied at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas and received a Bachelor of Music in music theory and composition. He then studied at the University of North Texas in Denton and received a Master of Music. He completed his studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in Urbana and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in composition. His teachers include John Butler, William P. Latham and Paul Zonn as well as electronic music and computer techniques with Herbert Brun and John Melby.
He worked at Atlantic Christian College, now Barton College, (1973–1977), at the Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee (1977–1979), from 1980 to 1983 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, from 1983 to 1989 at Tennessee Tech University, and from 1989 to 1998 he served as dean of the school of music and held the Yeager Endowed Professorship of Composition at Baylor University, at which point he became dean of the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma (1998-2005). He is currently professor of music at the University of Oklahoma.
As a composer he writes works for different genres, with performances in Europe, Japan, Mexico, Argentina and Canada. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the fraternities Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the American Music Center, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools College Consulting Network and former president of the Texas Association of Music Schools.
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