Gundaris Pone
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Gundaris Pone (October 17, 1932 – March 15, 1994) was a Latvian-American composer of contemporary classical music, conductor, and professor.
Born in Riga, Latvia, he emigrated to the United States in 1950, where he earned a doctorate in music from the University of Minnesota in 1962.
In 1963 he moved in New Paltz, New York, where he served as a professor at the State University College at New Paltz, New York. His notable students include Craig Fryer and David J. Sosnowski.
He was a winner of a Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (first place, 1982).
He died of cancer at the Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, New York on March 15, 1994, at the age of 61.
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- 1932 births
- 1994 deaths
- 20th-century classical composers
- American male classical composers
- American classical composers
- American people of Latvian descent
- American conductors (music)
- People from Riga
- University of Minnesota alumni
- New Paltz, New York
- Cancer deaths in New York
- 20th-century conductors (music)
- 20th-century American musicians
