Leslie Bassett

Upon retirement from active teaching in 1992, he held the title of Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition until his death in 2016.

[1] He was a member of the Gamma Pi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia at California State University-Fresno, 1942.

[2] After his military service, Bassett attended the University of Michigan where he studied composition with Homer Keller and Ross Lee Finney.

A Fulbright fellowship in 1950 supported study in Paris at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Arthur Honegger and also with Nadia Boulanger.

"[4] Bassett was a founding member of the U-M electronic music studio, as well as director of the Contemporary Directions Performance Project until his retirement in 1991.

Portrait of composer Leslie Bassett.
Leslie Bassett works in the University of Michigan Electronic Music Studio. No specific date, probably early 1969.