Lakond Award: Robert Livingston Aldridge

Robert Livingston Aldridge is a faculty member of Western Oregon University. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Musical Arts from Yale University, a Master of Music from New England Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Massachusetts Artist's Foundation, and the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund. His opera, Elmer Gantry, will be given its full stage world premiere by Tulsa Opera in 2001. He has been Composer-in-Residence at the American Dance Festival, and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony on five occasions. He represented the New York Foundation for the Arts in a solo concert of his music at Lincoln Center, and he is a founder of Composers in Red Sneakers. His music has been recorded on BMG, RCA Red Seal, GM, Foghorn, SoundVision, Open Loop, and Northeastern labels, and he is published by G. Schirmer and Dorn Publications.