Christopher Yavelow (born 14 June 1950, Cambridge, Massachusetts),[1] the son of a film professor and visual artist, is a composer and proponent of computer assisted composition.
He studied composition and theory at Boston University (BM 1972, MM 1974), Harvard University (MFA 1977), the Franz Liszt Academy in Hungary (1977–78), the Darmstadt Ferienkurse in Germany, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and L'ecole Normale de Musique in Paris where he also studied with Nadia Boulanger (1978–1979).
Major works include his grand opera, The Passion of Vincent van Gogh commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1981[2] and performed by the University of Texas in 1984.
[5] The book and its Japanese translation were well received by music educators[6] and the entertainment industry.
From 1995 through 1999, he was the editor of A-R Editions' Computer Music and Digital Audio book series.