Peter Lieberson

Peter Lieberson (1946-2011) was an American composer, born in New York City to Goddard Lieberson, head of Columbia Records, and the ballerina Vera Zorina. He studied composition with Milton Babbitt and then with Charles Wuorinen at Columbia, and became a student of the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, whose teachings shaped much of his music. His Neruda Songs were written for his wife, the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Lieberson followed Trungpa to Boulder in 1976, later co-directed Shambhala Training in Boston and then worked for it in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He took a Ph.D.