Batstone, Philip Norman 4.jan.1933-23.jul.1992 USA Massachusetts, Boston - Cambridge
pianist, sang in the choir of the Church of the Advent in Boston, studied with Henry Kaufmann at Boston University, at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, 1955 pianist in the 298th Army Band in Berlin, October 1956 started studies with Boris Blacher and Silvia Kind at the Hochschule fur Music Berlin, with Roger Sessions, Oliver Strunk and Milton Babbitt at Princeton University New Jersey, 1963-1965 taught at the City College of New York, 1965-1971 at the University of Colorado in Denver, 1971-1973 at the University of Illinois in Chicago, 1976 residing in Pembroke Maine ; he married Magda G Philippi (Germany, Berlin 4.jul.1935-24.oct.2002 California, Sacramento)