William Kraft

Born in Chicago, Kraft earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree cum laude from Columbia University, where he studied composition with Jack Beeson and Henry Cowell, orchestration with Henry Brant, percussion with Morris Goldenberg, timpani under Saul Goodman, and conducting with Rudolph Thomas and Fritz Zweig. After brief stints with the Dallas Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera, he joined t… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources