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ASCAP award winning composer, publisher, performer and teacher Edward J. Hines was born in 1951 in North Bellmore, New York. He received his first music lessons on the clarinet at the age of eight, conducted for the first time at the age of ten and taught himself guitar at the age of twelve. During the folk music revival of the 1960's, Hines was an active performer and made his radio debut as a fifteen year-old on a local folk music show at Hofstra University on Long Island. During his high school years Hines excelled at music and theater and was voted Most Talented by the members of his high school senior class at W.C. Mepham High School, Bellmore, New York.
Hines attended the Hartt School of Music, Hartford, Connecticut, where he studied music composition with Edward Diemente. Hines later graduated from Bennington College in Vermont where he earned both the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts Degrees. His composition teachers included Vivian Fine, Marta Ptaszynska, Jeffrey Levine and Louis Calabro. Hines also studied bassoon with Maurice Pachman, Charles McCracken and voice with Frank Baker.
In 1984 Hines was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the Turkish Republic where he spent the next year studying composition and ethnomusicology with Ahmet Adnan Saygun. Since then Edward J. Hines has composed works based on the ancient, microtonal modes and rhythms of Turkish and Arabic music. His chamber music publications include: Villa d' Este (1976, 1982), Dear Ann Landers (Can a Dog Get Drunk on Wine?) (1982), Boxcars (1980, 1989), Yeni Makam 1 (1990), Yeni Makam 2 (1992) , Yeni Makam 3 (1995), Yeni Makam 4 (1995). An American in Istanbul, Hines' CD of original chamber works of the Yeni Makam Series was released in the fall of 1999.
