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Lyle Davidson
Education and Training
B.M., M.M., NEC; University Scholar in psychology, Boston University. Theory and composition with Arthur Berger, Francis Judd Cooke, Daniel Pinkham, Luise Vosgerchian. Psychology with Howard Gardner and Sigmund Koch. Former faculty of Eastman School of Music, MIT, Harvard University, and Central Conservatory, Beijing.
Awards and Recognition
2008 Louis and Adrienne Krasner Teaching Excellence Award
Featured Links
The Boston Musical Intelligencer | Stoltzmans’ High Energy and Good Humor The Boston Musical Intelligencer | Parker Quartet Gives Rockport Something Big The Boston Composers Project: A Bibliography of Contemporary Music Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Tonal Structures of Children's Early SongsHe lectured widely in the U.S., Europe, China, and Australia on musical development, cognition, and assessment in the arts. He published on the development of musical ability across a wide span of ages, including studies of preschoolers’ singing and assessment of the impact of musical training on cognitive development in music. He composed for the Ina Hahn Dance Company, for Houghton Mifflin’s educational films division, and for Dance Circle. His choral, band, chamber, solo, and electronic works are published by E.C. Schirmer.
At Commencement 2008, Lyle Davidson received NEC’s Louis and Adrienne Krasner Teaching Excellence Award.
Lyle Davidson passed away in 2021.
Curriculum Vitae
B.M., M.M., NEC; University Scholar in psychology, Boston University. Theory and composition with Arthur Berger, Francis Judd Cooke, Daniel Pinkham, Luise Vosgerchian. Psychology with Howard Gardner and Sigmund Koch. Former faculty of Eastman School of Music, MIT, Harvard University, and Central Conservatory, Beijing.
- 2008 Louis and Adrienne Krasner Teaching Excellence Award
- The Boston Musical Intelligencer | Stoltzmans’ High Energy and Good Humor
- The Boston Musical Intelligencer | Parker Quartet Gives Rockport Something Big
- The Boston Composers Project: A Bibliography of Contemporary Music
- Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Tonal Structures of Children's Early Songs
