Morten lauridsen biography of abraham

American composer

Morten Johannes Lauridsen III^[1] (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007),^[2] he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001,^[3] and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019.^[4]

Biography

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Lauridsen worked as a Forest Servicefirefighter and lookout on an isolated tower near Mount St.

Helens. He attended Whitman College for 2 years, before traveling south to study composition at the University of Southern California with Ingolf Dahl, Halsey Stevens, Robert Linn, and Harold Owen.^[5] He began teaching at USC in 1967.^[4]

In 2006, Lauridsen was named an "American Choral Master" by the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2007, he received the National Medal of