Gaburo, Kenneth (1926–1993)

US composer. He studied at the Eastman School and with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome. He was a professor at the University of Illinois 1955–68 and at San Diego 1968–75. He founded and directed the Studio for Cognitive Studies at San Diego 1975–83; his music was concerned with extending verbal limits within composition, and frequently employed electronics, as in his series of Antiphonies I–X (1958–89).

Works Opera The Snow Queen (1952), Blur (1956), The Widow (1961).

Orchestral Shapes and Sounds (1960), A Dot is no Small Thing (1984), both for orchestra.

Chamber string quartet (1956).