Discipline: Music Composition

George Barati

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Soquel, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1947, 1948, 1953, 1956
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George Barati (1913-1996) was a Hungarian-American cellist, composer, and conductor. Barati began his study under Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner while attending the Liszt Academy of Music. While in Hungary, Barati became well known as a performer, soloist, and as a member of the Pro Ideale Quartet. After he arrived in the United States, Barati attended Princeton where he studied composition under Roger Sessions. He then moved to California where he worked with chamber ensembles, and was a cellist in the San Francisco Symphony. Barati then worked as a conductor for the Honolulu Symphony, the Santa Cruz County Symphony Orchestra, and codirected the Villa Montalvo Center for Art.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

George Barati worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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