Julia Amanda Perry

Julia Amanda Perry (25 March 1924 - 29 April 1979) was an African-American composer of classical music. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Perry studied voice, piano and composition at the Westminster Choir College 1943-48 and came to prominence as a result of a scholarship to the Berkshire Music Center where she was a student of Luigi Dallapiccola. She later traveled to Florence to continue her music studies with Dallapiccola and afterwards to France to study under Nadia Boulanger.