Herb Deutsch receiving the Moog Lifetime Achievement Award at BB Kings September 22, 2007
Herbert Deutsch
Herbert A. Deutsch is a composer, author, Professor Emeritus of Music, and, until September 2001, Chairman of the Music Department at Hofstra University.
A composer of music in various media, his work has been widely performed and commissioned. His works have been featured at national and regional conferences of The Music Educators National Conference, Small Computers and the Arts Network, the Society for Electro acoustic Music in the United States and other organizations.
In 1972, he co-founded the Long Island Composers Alliance (LICA), has served several times as its President and is currently its Archivist. In 1973 he created the first ÔMusic By and For StudentsÕ concert for LICA. He is a recipient of numerous ÔMeet The ComposerÕ and ASCAP Awards. He has composed the scores for six Shakespeare Festival productions. He founded Hofstra UniversityÕs Jazz Ensemble, Electronic Music Studios, The New Music Ensemble and created the B.S. Degree programs in Composition/Theory, Jazz & Commercial Music and Music Merchandising. He received the George Estabrook Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996 and the Hofstra Alumni Achievement Award in 2001. In his honor the Music Department has established the ÔHerbert Deutsch AwardÕ for honors in Music Education.
In 1964 he collaborated, in 1964, with Robert A. Moog on the development of the first Moog Synthesizer and, in September of 1965, in New York City, his ÔNew York Improvisation QuartetÕ gave a concert, which included the Moog's first live public performance. His work as a Marketing and Sales Consultant has lead him to work with Moog Music, Roland Corporation, Multivox Music, Norlin Industries, Passport Designs Software and Jim Henson's Muppets.
He has authored Synthesis, Alfred Publishing Co, Electroacoustic Music; Its First Century, CPP/Belwin, and Teach yourself Piano, Karamar Publications. As well as the multimedia opera, DORIAN, based on the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. His works released on CD include Woman in Darkness, (4Tay Records Ð 1999), Preamble & Fugue, performed by the Meridian String Quartet on Capstone Records, and From Moog To Mac . He was featured on a History Channel production on the First Moog Synthesizer and he appears and has music credits in the 2004 film MOOG. He is the recipient of the Moog Music ÒLifetime Achievement AwardÕ and has been inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
He is currently active in The NY State School Music Association, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States and Small Computers in the Arts Network. He is also a feature writer for The Music & Computer Educator and a reviewer for The American Record Guide.
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