Helen Stanley

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Helen Camille Stanley Hartmeyer Gatlin is a composer, pianist, and violist who began working with electronic and microtonal music in the 1960s. Stanley was born in Tampa, Florida, to Lucy Gage Crehore and Edward Stanley. She married John P. Hartmeyer in 1950. They had one daughter, then divorced in early 1965. Later that year, Stanley married Richard Denby Gatlin. Stanley earned a B. Mus. from Cincinnati Conservatory in 1951; a graduate fellowship and M. Mus from Florida State University in 1954; and a B.S. from Muskingum College in 1961. Her teachers included Hans Barth and Ernst von Dohnányi. Stanley has worked as a violist with the El Paso Symphony and as music director at the El Paso Ballet Center. She has taught at Jones College and Jacksonville University. In 1986, she was the Florida Contemporary Ensemble's composer-in-residence. Read more

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