Julius Eastman

Biography

Julius Eastman was an American minimalist composer from Ithaca, New York, whose accumulating piano works 'Stay On It' (1973), 'Femenine' (1974) and the defiant 'Gay Guerrilla' (1979) made him a downtown New York original. Forgotten at his death in 1990, he has since been restored to the centre of minimalism. He was also a remarkable performer, singing in works by *Meredith Monk* and playing in *Peter Maxwell Davies*'s 'Eight Songs for a Mad King', and his archive has driven a major scholarly revival.