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William Neil
 
Eclectic composer came to Chicago in 1984 after getting a Ph.D. from Michigan. He was the Lyric Opera's first composer-in-residence but then collected unemployment before his next musical gig (he also took about five years off to become a financial planner). He produced WFMT's prizewinning live concert series during the late '80s in addition to organizing a number of festivals.

Over the last few years, though, he's reappeared, writing a concerto for piccolo clarinet for the CSO's John Bruce Yeh, a Rhapsody for Violin for Concertante di Chicago, and a sensuous setting of D.H. Lawrence poems for soprano Barbara Ann Martin among others.

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