Charles Boone

Charles Boone is an American composer of contemporary classical music, living in San Francisco. Charles Boone studied at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, the University of Southern California, and San Francisco State College. Karl Schiske, Adolph Weiss, and Ernst Krenek were among his teachers. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Commissions. His works have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. An archive of his scores, manuscripts, recordings, letters, and other documents is being gathered at the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.