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David Diamond was born July 2, 1915, in Rochester, New York. He studied composition with André de Ribeaupierre in Cleveland, Bernard Rogers in Rochester, Roger Sessions in New York, and Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Dalcroze with Paul Boepple, and conducting with Hermann Scherchen in Neuchatel. He taught at the Manhattan and Juilliard Schools from 1973 to 1997, the year of his retirement. He is the recipient of three Guggenheim Fellowships, the American Academy of Rome Award, the Paderewski Prize, and the Ernest Bloch Award. In the past few years he has also received the highest honors available to an American composer: the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal of the MacDowell Colony, and the National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton.
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