In his college years he studied music theory at the Salzburg Academy of Music in Austria.
He studied music informally, but he was set on becoming a lawyer.
He studied electronic music at Oberlin College in Ohio, moved to California and bounced through various computer jobs, including stints with George Lucas and Steve Jobs.
He studied philosophy and music at the Universities of Sussex and Southampton, and went on to receive graduate degrees from Princeton.
Nor did he resort to a face saving untruth like saying he wanted to devote more effort to music, a subject he had studied in college.
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He has studied the organ with the assistant director of music at Truro Cathedral since he was 10 years old.
"I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label, " said Mr. Ferry, who studied art before he founded Roxy Music in 1970 with Brian Eno.
But after turning to acting he studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff.
Born in Chichester, he studied at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music, and has been compared to the late Jeff Buckley and Chris Martin of Coldplay.
At age 12 he met French composer Olivier Messiaen, and later he championed the composer's music and studied with his wife, Yvonne Loriod, at the Paris Conservatoire.
According to his website, he studied composition with Vincent Persichetti at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.
He studied composition, singing and piano at the Royal Academy of Music and won the Guinness Prize for Composition in 1977.
Wilson grew up in Virginia and earned a music scholarship to Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, where he performed and studied with Lionel Hampton, the Heath Brothers and Ellis Marsalis.
He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Columbia and the Juilliard School of Music in New York where his mentors included the late Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, who is still composing and will celebrate his 100th birthday next month.
Born in London, but raised in New York, he attended Harvard University, where he studied film and animation before dropping out in the mid-1990s to help launch a hip-hop music label, Rawkus Records.
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