At age 17, James Sellars left his native Arkansas to study composition at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music, where his principal teachers were David Diamond and Ludmila Ulehla. He later took a Ph.D.

Major works by James Sellars include Return of the Comet, commissioned by the London ensemble, Spectrum. Chanson Dada, directed by Peter Sellars at the Monadnock Festival with James Bolle conducting and

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