Composer Frank Wigglesworth

In 1946, composer Frank Wigglesworth joined the Music School faculty, where he studied with avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse.  Wigglesworth played both the violin and viola and began composing at the age of eleven. He went on to study composition with Otto Luening, Henry Cowell and Ernest White at Columbia University and Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C.. Wigglesworth was a Composer in Residence at the American Academy of Rome from 1969-1970 and a board member of the Youth Orchestra of New York. He was also the founder of the Thursday Evening Concerts at the Greenwich House Music School, organized in 1987. Wigglesworth was President of the American Composers Alliance from 1980-1984.