Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 - October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist. Biography She was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, to an American nurse and a Swiss freight train worker. As the only child, she grew up playing the piano. Amacher left Kane to attend the University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A in 1964. While there she studied composition with George Rochberg and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Subsequently, she did graduate work in acoustics and computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While in residence at the Uni… read more
Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 - October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist. Biography She was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, to an American nurse and a Swiss freight train worker. As the only child, she grew up playing the piano. Amacher left Kane to attend the U… read more
Maryanne Amacher (February 25, 1938 - October 22, 2009) was an American composer and installation artist. Biography She was born in Kane, Pennsylvania, to an American nurse and a Swiss freight train worker. As the only child, she grew up playing the piano. Amacher left Kane to attend the University of Pennsylvania where she received a B.F.A in 1964. While ther… read more