Roger Sessions has been played on NTS shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, with Symphony No. 2 first played on 2 July 2018.

Roger Huntington Sessions (28 December 1896 – 16 March 1985) was an American composer, critic and teacher of music.

Born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution, Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14. There, he wrote for and subsequently edited the Harvard Musical Review. Graduating at age 18, he went on to study at Yale University under Horatio Parker and Ernest Bloch before teaching at Smith College. His…