William Kraft(1923-2022)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer, conductor, noted percussionist and teacher, educated at
Columbia University (Bachelor/Master of Arts, Seidl Fellowship), and a
student of Otto Luening, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Jack Beeson and Henry
Cowell, and also with Boris Orr at Cambridge University in England. He
organized and directed the Los Angeles Percussion Ensemble, and he was
timpani soloist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and on the
faculty of USC as well as a member of the International Society of
Contemporary Music and, since 1962, a member of ASCAP.
