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Olly W. Wilson was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1937. His higher education includes a B.M. degree from Washington University, St. Louis, 1959;Master of Music degree from the Univ. of Illinois 1960;and the Ph.D. degree from the Univ. of Iowa, 1964. Wilson also played jazz piano with local groups in St. Louis and was a member of several orchestras as a string bass player, including the St. Louis Philharmonic orchestra and the Cedar Rapids Symphony. He studied electronic music at the University of Illinois and has held faculty positions at Florida A & M University (1960-62, 1964-65) Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1965 -1970) and the University of California, Berkeley (from 1970 until his retirement in 2002). His compositions include chamber works, orchestral works and works for the electronic media.