Lee Burswold

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Lee Burswold (1933-2017) studied composition with Vittorio Rieti, Anthony Donato, Bernard Rogers, and Howard Hanson. He holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in theory and composition from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in theory and composition from the Eastman School of Music. He is an Emeritus professor of music at North Park University and extensively published, partirularly in string music. Before coming to North Park, he taught briefly at the Northwestern University School of Music and as a graduate teaching fellow at the Eastman School. Lee Burswold began piano study at age nine, and by age fifteen was active as a jazz and solo pianist in Chicago, playing the music of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen. At the same time, he became increasingly interested in American and European "classical" music, particularly in the compositions of Aaron Copland and Bela Bartok . He has maintained a lifelong interest in score study. Burswold's wife, Barbara, is a former cellist in the Houston Symphony Orchestra and is currently a teacher and member of the Park Ridge Symphony. Their daughter, Carol, is assistant concertmaster in the Chicago Sinfonietta and a violinist in the Elgin Symphony Orchestra and the Woodstock Mozart Festival.

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