People McPhee, Colin, 1900-1964

Colin McPhee

Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900  – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-born Indonesian composer and musicologist. He is best known for being the first Western composer to make an ethnomusicological study of Bali, and for the quality of that work. He also composed music influenced by that of Bali and Java decades before such compositions that were based on world music became widespread. McPhee was born in Montreal. He enrolled in the Peabody Institute in 1918, studying composition with Gustav Strube and piano with Harold Randolph; subsequently he studied with the avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse before marrying Jane Belo, a disciple of Margaret Mead, in 1931. Read more at Wikipedia...

Born: NaN, Montreal
Died: 1964, Los Angeles

Occupation(s): composer, musicologist, ethnomusicologist, university teacher, pianist, music journalist, music critic
Field(s) of Work: jazz
Employer(s): University of California, Los Angeles
Associated Place(s): Indonesia--Bali Island

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