Noah Creshevsky (January 31, 1945 – December 3, 2020) was a composer and electronic musician born in Rochester, New York.
[2] Trained in composition by Nadia Boulanger in Paris and Luciano Berio at the Juilliard School (earning a master's degree in 1968),[2] Creshevsky lived and worked in New York beginning in 1966.
[4] He also served on the faculties of Juilliard and Hunter College, and was a visiting professor at Princeton University during the 1984 academic year.
[5] This alliance of opposites is heard both in his text-sound compositions (1973-1986)—Pop Art works in which extreme and unpredictable juxtapositions of iconographic sonic materials establish links between music and society [6] —and in later pieces, in which the integration of electronic and acoustic sources and processes “creates virtual ‘superperformers’ by using the sounds of traditional instruments pushed past the capacities of human performance.” [7] Creshevsky’s most recent compositions are examples of "Hyperrealism", a term he uses to describe an electroacoustic language constructed from sounds found in our shared environment that he handles in ways that are exaggerated or intense.
[8] and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts[9] Creshevsky, who died of bladder cancer, was interred on Hart Island at his own request.