Michael Byron

Michael Byron is an American composer, born in Chicago in 1953 and based in New York. He came out of the experimental circle around James Tenney in California and writes harmonically rich, rhythmically detailed music for strings, harp, piano and small ensembles. Byron is best known for his albums on the Cold Blue label and as publisher and editor of the journal Pieces. Byron grew up in Los Angeles and studied with Tenney and Richard Teitelbaum at CalArts, then graduated from York University in Toronto. In New York he worked as a copyist and editor for La Monte Young.