Charles Amirkhanian

Charles Benjamin Amirkhanian (born January 19, 1945; Fresno, California) is an American composer.

Amirkhanian received his Master of Fine Arts from Mills College in 1980, where he studied electronic music and techniques of sound recording.

[1] He was music director of Pacifica Radio's KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California, from 1969 to 1992, and he was a lecturer in the Interdisciplinary Creative Arts Department at San Francisco State University from 1977 to 1980.

He has played a key role in recording and championing the work of Conlon Nancarrow and George Antheil, among others.

[3] From ASCAP in 1989 he received the Deems Taylor Award, also for service to American composers.