Chan Poling
Chandler Hall "Chan" Poling (1957 (age 58–59)) is an American musician and composer.
Early life and education
Chandler Hall Poling was born in 1957 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He moved to Minnesota with his family in 1961. He studied composition at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, after graduating from The Blake School, went on to study composition and performance at the California Institute of the Arts from 1975 to 1977 under the tutelage of his mentor the composer Harold Budd.
Career
Music
Influenced by jazz and theater music and the burgeoning punk and new wave pop music of that time, as well as the music of his mentor Hal Budd Minimalists Terry Riley, visiting artists to Cal Arts, like Philip Glass and world and avant-garde performer/composers Meredith Monk, as well as the treasure-trove of film scores available to students at Cal Arts, Mr. Poling went on to write and perform dance scores, student theater and film scores and start his own rock band, The Suburbs.
