Gregg Wager Author

Born in Michigan but raised in Central California, Dr. Gregg Wager studied music composition with Morten Lauridsen and Jim Hopkins at the University of Southern California and Mel Powell and Morton Subotnick at California Institute of the Arts, eventually earning a PhD in musicology with Prof. Dr. Albrecht Rietmüller at Free University Berlin. During the 1980s, he contributed regularly to the Los Angeles Times as a classical music critic. He has also served as an adjunct professor in music composition at Purchase College (2000-2006).