1. Albert Glinsky was born on December 9,1952 and is an American composer and author.
16 Facts About Albert Glinsky
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Albert Glinsky's music has been performed internationally by soloists, ensembles, and dance companies.
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In 2009 Glinsky was invited by the family of synthesizer pioneer, Bob Moog, to create Moog's biography.
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Albert Glinsky is the son of American sculptors, Cleo Hartwig and Vincent Albert Glinsky.
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Albert Glinsky grew up in Greenwich Village, attended the High School of Music and Art, and studied composition with Joan Tower and Otto Luening.
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Albert Glinsky received his bachelor and master of music degrees in composition from the Juilliard School where his principal teacher was David Diamond.
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Albert Glinsky has served on the faculty of Montclair State University, was BMI Composer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, and is currently Professor Emeritus and Director of the Composition program at Mercyhurst University in Pennsylvania.
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Albert Glinsky's music has been recorded on the RCA Red Seal, Koch International Classics, Centaur, BMG Catalyst, and Leonore labels.
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Albert Glinsky's works have been heard throughout the US, Europe, and the Far East in such venues as Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Aspen Music Festival, Wolf Trap, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and the Salle Cortot in Paris.
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Albert Glinsky received two awards from the Alienor International Harpsichord Competition, and was a Ucross Foundation Resident Artist in Wyoming.
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Albert Glinsky is a member of the American Composers Alliance.
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Albert Glinsky is the author of Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution, with a Foreword by Francis Ford Coppola.
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In connection with the book, Albert Glinsky has appeared on such programs and podcasts as Echoes, Talk Radio Europe, and New Books Network.
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The biography is cited in the book Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America; the author was interviewed on the podcast, Spycraft 101; and Albert Glinsky was invited to lecture at the CIA in Langley, Virginia on Leon Theremin's Great Seal Bug, known as The Thing.
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Theremin received the 2001 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, and since the book's publication, Albert Glinsky has been invited to present lectures on Leon Theremin and his work at many venues in the US and abroad, including at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Katonah, New York, the Encuentro de Vanguardias 1er Tecnologicas y Culturales in Madrid, Spain, the Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and at American and Canadian colleges and universities.
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In December, 2000, Albert Glinsky appeared in a joint presentation with Bob Moog at the University of Buffalo.