Erik Lindgren is American composer and keyboards player. He runs Arf Arf Records, and has led (or been a member of) several ensembles: The Moving Parts, The Space Negros, and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. A composer is a person who writes music. ... A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played with a musical keyboard. ... Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is a musical group founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1983. ...

Lindgren attended Northfield Mount Hermon School, and received his BA in Music from Tufts University in 1976 where he worked with T. J. Anderson. In 1974–75 he spent his junior year abroad in London studying composition at the Guildhall School Of Music with Alfred Nieman and piano with Birgette Wild. Lindgren received an MA in music composition and piano performance from the University of Iowa in 1977 where he studied with Donald Jenni, Richard Hervig and Peter Lewis. Northfield Mount Hermon Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH) is a ninth-twelfth grade private college-preparatory high school (secondary school) located in western Massachusetts, U.S.A. Its Northfield campus is located in Northfield, Massachusetts, and its Mount Hermon campus is located in nearby Gill, Massachusetts. ... Tufts University is a university located in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts (near Boston). ... The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... The University of Iowa is a university in Iowa City, Iowa. ... Peter Lewis is the Cleveland, Ohio-area based Chairman of Progressive Insurance Companies. ...

As a contemporary classical composer, Lindgren has a catalog of over five dozen works, ranging from solo piano pieces to chamber music to orchestral works. He also owns Foot Foot Music BMI which publishes all of his original compositions. In 1978, Lindgren established Sounds Interesting Productions, a commercial recording studio and music production company based in Cambridge, MA. In 1998, he relocated his facility to Middleborough, MA. National and regional credits include original scores for ABC, NBC CBS and PBS, Eastpak, Boston Globe, Basketball Hall Of Fame, Jordan Marsh, Polaroid, Prentice-Hall and the Christmas Tree Shops. Lindgren also markets The Well-Tempered Music Library that consists of seven CDs of stock commercial music that he composed and produced. contemporary classical: Modern orchestrial and piano music, artists include Michael Nyman, Craig Armstrong, Ludovico Einaudi, Philip Glass, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, James Newton Howard. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... Harvard Square, May 2000 Cambridge is a city in the greater Boston area in Massachusetts, United States. ... ABC (disambiguation) ... The 1986 Peacock logo, designed by Chermayeff & Geismar. ... CBSs first color logo, which debuted in the fall of 1965. ... PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely-circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors players who have shown exceptional skill at basketball, all-time great coaches and referees, and other major contributors to the game. ... Polaroid® (a trademark of the Polaroid Corporation) is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is used to polarise light. ... Pearson can mean Pearson PLC the media conglomerate. ...

Lindgren was a founding member of the new music ensemble Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic that Billboard Magazine described as “a mesmerizing venture into the space age jungle.” The quartet has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada and held residencies at Dartmouth College, Emory University, Duke, UNCA and the Massachusetts College Of Art. Birdsongs’ has recorded for the Rykodisc, Cuneiform and Ace Of Hearts labels and is currently at work on their seventh CD. Recently the group collaborated with Duplex Planet editor/National Public Radio correspondent David Greenberger on 1001 Real Apes. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is a musical group founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1983. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ... For other places called Dartmouth, see Dartmouth Dartmouth College is a private university in Hanover, New Hampshire, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Emory University is an undergraduate, graduate, and research institution in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Emory is one of the most prestigious large private universities in the South and within the United States, according to yearly rankings by US News & World Report. ... Rykodisc was one of the first CD-only record companies in the late 1980s. ... Cuneiform (from the Latin word for wedge-shaped) can refer to: an ancient writing system originating in Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC three bones in the human foot a record label, Cuneiform Records. ... NPR logo NPR redirects here. ...

For over twenty years, Lindgren has run the Arf! Arf! record label which has released five-dozen archival CDs documenting ’60s Garage/Psychedelic Rock and “Incredibly Strange Music.” Arf! Arf! issued four CD retrospectives by his ’80s experimental studio group The Space Negros. Lindgren has also produced over one hundred records for such diverse artists as Willie Loco Alexander, The Turbines, The Cynics and Ed “Moose” Savage And His Litany Of Complaints.