Andrew Imbrie, a prominent San Francisco Bay Area composer and noted University of California-Berkeley music professor who was perhaps best known for his 1976 opera “Angle of Repose,” has died. He was 86.
….Imbrie also had close ties to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught and coached the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble….He dedicated his String Quartet No. 4 (1969) to the Pro Arte String Quartet, which has performed all five of Imbrie’s string quartets and which recorded the String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5 and the Impromptu for Violin and Piano with retired UW piano professor Howard Karp.
Imbrie also taught current UW composer Laura Schwendinger, and UW Pro Arte violist Sally Chisholm participated in the world premiere of Imbrie’s Piano Quartet.