Spencer Gerhardt is a composer and mathematician. His music engages constructive, introspective and romantic traditions. Gerhardt has written solo piano music, piano based songs, and works of minimalism. He studied raga with
La Monte Young and
Marian Zazeela, piano performance with Sung-Hwa Park, and has collaborated with artists such as
Thomas Ankersmit and
Charles Curtis.
Spencer Gerhardt is also an Assistant Teaching Professor of Mathematics at University of Southern California. His research focuses on algebraic groups, often viewed in connection with problems in finite group theory and representation theory. Prior to his work in algebra, he studied logic and philosophy in the Brouwerian tradition at the University of Amsterdam, where he received a Master of Science. Gerhardt has written about art and music in this context, in particular the philosophical underpinnings of minimalism.
