People : Roger Bourland
	Mr. Bourland received his education from the University of Wisconsin / Madison (B.Mus), the New England Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.). His teachers have included Leon Kirchner, Gunther Schuller, Donald Martino, John Harbison, and Wm. Thomas McKinley. He received the Koussevitzky Prize in Composition at Tanglewood, the John Knowles Paine Fellowship at Harvard, two ASCAP Grants to Young Composers, numerous Meet the Composer grants, two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a co-founder of the Boston-based consortium "Composers in Red Sneakers." Bourland has composed over one hundred works for all media: solo instrumental, chamber, vocal and choral music, electro-acoustic music, and music for orchestra. These compositions are published by E.C.Schirmer / Boston, Margun Music, Dorn Publications, and Yelton Rhodes Music, and recorded on Northeastern Records, GM Recordings, and Cambria Records. Commissioners of Bourland music include the Modern Poetry Association/ NPR, Pacific Serenades, The Foundation for New American Music, the Portland String Quartet, the Pro Musicis Foundation, Boston Musica Viva, ALEA III, and the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles. His film scores include "The Wolf at the Door" (1987, CBS/Fox Videocassettes), "The Trouble with Dick" (1986, Academy Video), "Night Life" (1988, RCA/Columbia Videocassettes), and the late James Merrill's unreleased "Voices from Sandover" (1990, Princeton University). In 1991 Bourland scored a 13 part radio series for National Public Radio entitled "Poets In Person." Since 1992, Bourland has received commissions for three full-length cantatas (Hidden Legacies, Letters to the Future, and Flashpoint/Stonewall) from five GALA choruses that have been performed throughout America. He is currently working on a commission for an orchestral work for the Topeka Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary ("Ozma"). As an administrator, Bourland was the Chair of the Board for the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles from 1993 to 1995. Dr. Bourland is the Chair of the Faculty of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and is the Director of the electronic music program in the Department of Music.