Composer and electronic musician
Richard Teitelbaum was born in NYC in 1939. After graduating from Haverford College, he went on to get a Master of Music degree from Yale in 1964.
Teitelbaum studied with composers
Luigi Nono and
Goffredo Petrassi in Italy on a Fullbright scholarship, after which he brought the first Moog synthesizer to Europe.
Teitelbaum performed hundreds of concerts with it, and co-founded the pioneering live electronic music group
Musica Elettronica Viva with
Frederic Rzewski and
Alvin Curran in Rome, 1966. An opera of his,
Golem, was performed at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria (1991), and
Teitelbaum himself has performed throughout the U.S., Japan and Europe. His music is heard on Cantaur, Hat Hut, Tzadik, and other labels. Besides making music and working with interactive computer systems,
Teitelbaum has taught electronic music and composition at New York's Vassar College, and Bard College where he has also been Director of the Electronic Music Studio. ~ Joslyn Layne, All Music Guide