Morten Lauridsen | |
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![]() Lauridsen on Waldron Island in 2012 | |
Born | Colfax, Washington, U.S. | February 27, 1943
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Organizations | USC Thornton School of Music |
Awards | National Medal of Arts |
Morten Johannes Lauridsen III[1] (born February 27, 1943) is an American composer and teacher. A National Medal of Arts recipient (2007),[2] he was composer-in-residence of the Los Angeles Master Chorale from 1994 to 2001,[3] and is professor emeritus of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he taught for fifty-two years until his retirement in 2019.[4]