Gerald Bennett

Gerald Bennett is an American composer, born in New Jersey in 1942, who has worked mainly in Switzerland. He studied music at Harvard, where he took composition with Robert Moevs and attended Pierre Boulez's classes, and continued his studies at the Basel Conservatory. Bennett writes instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic music, and he is known for his part in the founding years of IRCAM in Paris. Boulez asked Bennett to help build IRCAM, and from 1976 he headed the institute's Diagonal department.