William Eldridge (Richmond, Virginia USA 1955)

William Eldridge is a composer of concert music, computer music and film music. After attending Virginia Commonwealth University, Boston Conservatory and The University of Michigan, he earned a PhD in Music at Harvard University, where he served as Ivan Tcherepnin’s Teaching Fellow in the Electronic Music Studio. His composition teachers included Leslie Bassett, Leon Kirchner, Earl Kim, Peter Maxwell Davies and Donald Martino. He studied electronic music with George Wilson and Ivan Tcherepnin and computer music with Barry Vercoe at MIT. Eldridgèe's concert and computer music has been heard in Boston, Cambridge and Concord, MA, Ann Arbor, MI, Hilton Head, SC, New London, CT, Berkeley, CA and Arnhem, The Netherlands. His film and radio-theater music has been presented at film festivals in Boston, New York, Dallas, Aspen, Los Angeles and elsewhere and broadcast on national radio and TV networks in Britain, Germany, Japan, Canada and the United States. Performers have included Ursula Oppens, Leslie Amper, Andrew Mark, Neil Anderson, Bion Tsang, Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin and the Cambridge Symphony.
Eldridge has taught at Tufts University and Salem State College in Massachusetts, written articles about computer music and edited a textbook on MDI, and worked as a professional sound designer and audio editor. He currently teaches composition, music theory and computer music at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

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