Travis, Roy (1922- )

US composer. He studied at the Juilliard School and Columbia University (1947-51) and with Milhaud at the Paris Conservatory. He taught first in New York, then at UCLA, where he was a professor from 1968.

Works Opera The Passion of Oedipus (1968) and The Black Bacchantes (1982).

Chamber string quartet (1958); Duo Concertante for violin and piano (1967); Barma, for septet (1968).

Orchestral Collage for orchestra (1968); Piano concerto (1969).

Other electronic music pieces (studio at University of California at Los Angeles, from 1969).