Will Gay Bottje, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWill Gay Bottje
American composer
Date of Birth: 30-Jun-1925
Date of Death: 07-Jan-2018
Profession: composer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Will Gay Bottje
- Will Gay Bottje (June 30, 1925; Grand Rapids, Michigan - January 7, 2018; Grand Rapids, Michigan)) was an American composer known for his contributions to electronic music. Bottje was a graduate of the Juilliard School (Bachelor of Music in flute performance and Master of Music in composition) where he studied composition with Vittorio Giannini.
- He went on to pursue studies at the Eastman School of Music where he was a pupil of Bernard Rogers and Howard Hanson.
- From Eastman he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, the second such degree to be awarded to a student from any institution.
- He also studied composition privately with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and was a pupil of Henk Badings at the University of Utrecht's electronic music studio.From 1957–1981 Bottje taught on the music faculty at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.
- There he founded and directed SIU's electronic music studio.
- One of his notable pupils at SIU was composer Larry Lake.
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