Serge Alexandrovich Tcherepnin (Russian: Серге́й Александрович Черепнин; born 2 February 1941) is a Russian-American composer and electronic-instrument builder of Russian-Chinese parentage.
An online biography of Alexander by Phillip Ramey, Vice-President of The Tcherepnin Society, includes a photograph of the family and shows Serge at a young age.
[1] Serge had trained in France under Nadia Boulanger and studied at Harvard University with Leon Kirchner and Billy Jim Layton from 1958 to 1963.
[2] As an instructor at CalArts under Morton Subotnick, Serge was exposed to some of the earliest modular synthesizers designed y Don Buchla.
Electronics were manufactured by his own company Serge Modular Music Systems, which was officially founded in 1974[2] and occupied various locations in California,[4] including Hollywood.