1922-; Faculty Member, University of North Dakota Department of Music and Founder/Director of Collegium Musicum

Read, Tamar C.

Tamar Clothylde Read was born and raised in Olla, Louisiana. She received a bachelor's degree in music from Louisiana State University in 1942, and a master's degree in music education from the University of Michigan in 1945. She then spent eight years in New York City studying and participating in choruses and orchestras. Read taught at South Dakota State University for two years then began teaching at the University of North Dakota (UND) in 1959 as Associate Professor of Music. While at UND, she founded the Collegium Musicum in 1963 and served as its director. Read obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts in 1969 from the University of Southern California by presenting her doctoral dissertation:  "A Critical Study and Performance Edition of Emilio de' Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo." Tamar Read retired from UND in June 1988.

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University of North Dakota - Faculty
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