David Diamond

Composer and educator, educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and the New Music School. He studied with Roger Sessions and Nadia Boulanger. He received Elfrida Whiteman, Guggenheim, and National Academy of Arts and Letters grants and Prix de Rome, Paderewski, and Ernest Bloch awards. He joined ASCAP in 1946, and went to Europe in 1951 as a Fulbright professor (he was a Slee professor at the University of Boston in 1951). He joined the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music in 1965, and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His vocal compositions include "David Mourns for Absalom", "Lift Not the Painted Veil", and "Love Is More".