Aird, Donald Bruce 24.may.1924-7.aug.2001 USA Utah, Provo - Dulles Airport Washington DC (heart attack)
organist, choral conductor, studied with Charles Cushing, Edward Lawton and Roger Sessions at the University of California in Berkeley, MM from California State University in San Francisco, 1958-1960 with Ingolf Dahl at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1960 received the Helen S Armstead Award in Composition, taught at Stanford University California, 1960-1964 professor of music and head of the choral department at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, University of California Berkeley and California State University in San Francisco, 1957-1966 organist/choirmaster of St Mark's Episcopal Church in Berkeley, for 20 years conductor of the Berkeley Chamber Singers, at time of death residing in Berkeley California ; 4.oct.1953 in Berkeley he married mezzosoprano Carol Belden Brooke (Berkeley 5.mar.1917-29.may.2008 El Cerrito)