Roger Bourland

Roger Bourland (born December 13, 1952) is an American composer,[1][2][3] publisher,[4] blogger,[5] and Professor-Emeritus of Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

Bourland studied at Tanglewood with Gunther Schuller and was awarded the Koussevitzky Prize in Composition (1978).

From 1983 to 2013, Bourland taught composition, music theory, analysis, orchestration, electro-acoustic composition, and other classes and seminars in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

He was awarded the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2005–6,[12] and served as Chair of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Department of Music from 2007 to 2011.

[13] Professor Bourland retired from UCLA in 2013 and moved to Northern California to devote his time to composition.