David began his piano studies when he was 11 and was 16 when he gave his first public performance, in San Francisco in 1954. By the time he was 18, he had won a handful of scholarships and awards, including the $5,000 John E. Kimber Prize, in 1955, which covered his piano studies for several years. “He yelled at me and was very severe, and I didn’t realize, coming from California, that all he really was, was a New Yorker,” Mr. Del Tredici told American Public Media in 2002. Mr. Milhaud was encouraging, and when Mr. Del Tredici returned to Berkeley, he enrolled in a composition class taught by Seymour Shifrin. He later pointed out that he had never been composer of 12-tone music, the radical departure from traditional tonality pioneered by Arnold Schoenberg.

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Persons: David, John E, Kimber, Leonard Shure, ” Mr, Del Tredici, “, ‘, ”, Darius Milhaud, Milhaud, Seymour Shifrin, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Earl Kim, Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg Organizations: University of California, Aspen Music Festival, School, New Yorker, American Public Media, La, Princeton University, Times Locations: San Francisco, Berkeley, California, New, La Monte