The University of Colorado Board of Regents presented the Centennial Medallion to him in1976 for service to the University. He attended the University of Denver where he earned a Bachelor of Music Education in 1966 and a Master of Arts in Composition in 1975. Professor Pritts graduated from East High School in 1955. He played trombone, piano, synthesizer and other instruments. He also performed with the Denver Symphony Orchestra and created multi-media compositions for the Gates Planetarium.
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As a professional musician and composer, he was on the arranging staffs of the Martha Raye television show and the Stan Kenton Orchestra, and performed with such artists as Les Elgart, Billy May, John Denver, The Carpenters, The Fifth Dimension, Elvis Presley and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Petersburg and Moscow, the Moscow State University (Russia), the Technical Universities of Gdansk (Poland) and Prague (Czech Republic), Taller de Arte Sonoro (Venezuela) and the University of Lulea-Pitea (Sweden).
He also taught audio engineering courses at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, the University of Miami, the Institutes of Cinematography in both St. During his tenure he served as the Resident Dean of the College of Music (now the College of Arts & Media at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center) from 1984-1989. He taught audio engineering, electronic music and music composition until his retirement in May 2006. Professor Pritts established the Music Technology/Recording Arts program at the University of Colorado at Denver in 1971 and was instrumental in founding the graduate program in Recording Arts in 2002. Roy Pritts, educator, musician, composer, author, administrator and recording engineer died in Aurora, Colorado on June 20, 2007.
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