Allen Anderson
http://music.unc.edu/faculty/facultyandstaffdirectory/facultystaffmember.2005-09-30.8224312263

ALLEN ANDERSON

Allen Anderson has composed works for the Empyrean Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, the UNC Chamber Singers, Aleck Karis, Thomas Warburton and Daniel Stepner among others. His work has been acknowledged with awards or commissions from the Guggenheim, Fromm and Koussevitsky foundations, Chamber Music America, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia-Alpha Ro, BMI, League of Composers/ISCM (both the National and Boston chapters) and, in 2005, with the Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His music is published by C. F. Peters, APNM and Belmont Music Publishers. He has taught at Columbia University, Wellesley College and Brandeis University, and since 1996 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where his teachers included Andrew Imbrie and Fred Lerdahl, and both a Masters of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University where he studied with Martin Boykan and Seymour Shifrin. He recently completed Iceblink, a 35-minute multi-media work on Antarctica, with photographer Brooks de Wetter-Smith, a commission from the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild. He is working on a piece about the 19th century removal of Cherokees from the south.

Todd Coleman
http://www.toddcoleman.net

TODD COLEMAN
Todd Coleman is a composer and video artist who works within the contemporary "Classical" concert music tradition, but whose works increasingly defy simple categorizations. Recent compositions have incorporated visual elements of multiple projected layers of digital video interwoven with live performers and immersive surround digital audio, blending studio recording and film scoring techniques with prerecorded electronic music and live sound. Coleman has a strong background in technology and the arts, with many commissions and jobs which blur the boundaries between creative disciplines.
Coleman completed his Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Brigham Young University in 1996, winning a number of awards and commissions for his work. He went on to study composition and double bass performance at the Eastman School of Music on a prestigious Jackno Fellowship, earning his Doctorate in 2002. His composition teachers included Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Rouse, Augusta Read Thomas and David Liptak, and he studied double bass with James VanDemark. During that time he received awards for his orchestral and chamber music as well as several commissioned works.
Coleman is an assistant professor of music at Elon University in North Carolina where he coordinates and teaches courses in the new B.S. in Music Technology degree program. Prior to coming to Elon, Coleman taught at Grinnell College in the Music Department for four years after originally joining the Grinnell staff as a Curricular Technology Specialist in Fine Arts in 2002 at the completion of his doctorate in composition at Eastman.

Thomas Dempster
http://www.thomasdempster.com

THOMAS DEMPSTER
Thomas Dempster was born in Sandusky, Michigan in 1980, and eventually settled in North Carolina with his family. An alumnus of the Governor's School of North Carolina, Dempster completed high school with high distinction and was awarded scholarships to study at a number of universities. He chose the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he studied bassoon with Yamaha Performing Artist Michael Burns and studied composition with Eddie Bass, electroacoustic composition with Craig Walsh, and counterpoint and orchestration with Frank McCarty. He graduated summa cum laude with a BM in Composition in 2002 and was awarded scholarships and fellowships to attend the University of Texas at Austin. There he completed the MM in Composition where he studied with Kevin Beavers, Kevin Puts, Dan Welcher, and Yevgeniy Sharlat. He studied extensively with Russell Pinkston and greatly increased his output and quality of electroacoustic music. He is currently completing the requirements for the Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Texas at Austin.
His music spans a wide berth of styles and genre, from solo instrumental works to full orchestra. His chamber orchestra work camera was awarded a 2004 BMI Student Composer Award, and his work Four Movements for Saxophone Quartet was awarded an honor by Sigma Alpha Iota. His music has been performed extensively throughout the United States, and has had performances in Europe and South America. His electroacoustic music has been performed in a number of SEAMUS and LA-TEX conferences and has been broadcast as far afield as Denmark and Australia. He has previously served as an instructor at the University of Texas and the composer-in-residence at the North Carolina Governor's School. He currently teaches first-year seminars in popular music, art music, and critical theory at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a position he has held since 2006. He is an active researcher, melding literary theory and popular music as well as analyzing the work of Takemitsu, Henze, Larsson, Smalley, and Parmegiani. His interests primarily include close readings of sub-popular rock music using gender and critical race theory, pedagogical philosophy in the electroacoustic studio, and harmonic analysis through a cultural theory lens. He is currently working on three articles: "A Closer Look At Dystopia: A Polyvalent Reading of 'Monitor' by Siouxsie and the Banshees"; "Envisioning a Lingua Franca for Electroacoustic Music Analysis"; and "Henze, Hoelderlin, and the Long Line: Poetics in Henze's Seventh Symphony". His article "Translating the Language of 'Wind Chimes' through a Smalley Lens" has been considered for publication by the Journal of SEAMUS.
Tom currently resides in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his cat Zarathustra and his numerous houseplants. Tom is an ardent film buff, a far-too-avid reader, and enjoys learning foreign languages as a hobby. He has also written a fair amount of poetry and short prose, none of which you (fortunately or not) will see here.
If there is anything else you would like to know, please ask Tom. He may or may not answer.

Mark Engebretson
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MARK ENGEBRETSON

Mark Engebretson is Assistant Professor of Composition and Electronic Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a recipient of commissions from the Fromm Foundation, and Thomas S. Kenan Center for the Arts. His music is founded on contemporary notions of performer/composer virtuosity, interactivity, melody, harmony and expressivity.

“Engebretson creates innovative sounds and shapes incorporating high velocity perpetual motion and multi-phonics. The low pitches reminded me of Central Asian throat-singing, providing a fascinating juxtaposition of the old and the new.“ (Classical Voice North Carolina)

Mark Engebretson’s compositions have been presented at festivals such as ICMC (International Computer Music Conference), Bowling Green Festival of New Music and Art, Third Practice Festival (University of Richmond), Wien Modern (Vienna), Gaida Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania), Sonoimagenes (Buenos Aires) Hörgänge Festival (Vienna), Ny Musikk (Bergen, Norway), Indiana State University New Music Festival (Terre Haute, Indiana), the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, ISCM Festivals (Tirana, Albania and Baku, Azerbaijan), the UNCG New Music Festival and World Saxophone Congresses (Pesaro, Italy, Montreal, Canada, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Ljubljana, Slovenia). 

Suzanne Farrin
http://www.suzannefarrin.com/

SUZANNE FARRIN
 
Suzanne Farrin’s works have been performed in the US, Europe and South America. Commissions have come from a variety of sources and for combinations as diverse as the Irish bagpipes and string quartet to solo piano pieces and works for vibraphone. Her music can be heard on Signum Classics, VAI and Albany Records.

She has been heard at concert halls such as Carnegie Weill Hall, Symphony Space, The Kennedy Center, the Tank, Monkeytown, The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Sprague Hall at Yale University, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Walker Art Center and festivals such as Avantgarde Schwaz, The Carolina Chamber Music Festival, Look and Listen, The Philadelphia Fringe, Music in Würzburg, Germany, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, Music Mountain and Festival Nuevo Mundo (Maracaibo). 

Musicians that have performed her work include Amanda Baker, Tanya Bannister, Ken Crilly, Dominic Donato, Julia Lichten, Jesse Levine, Dan Lippel, Steve Mackey, Sara Okamoto, Vanessa Perez, Jim Pugh, Joshua Rubin, , Laurie Smuckler, David Schotzko, Mark Stewart, Antoine Tamestit, Sayaka Tanikawa, Jason Treuting, Ira Weller and Cal Wiersma.

Ensembles she has worked with include the Arditti Quartet, So Percussion, The Locrian Chamber Players, The Meehan/Perkins Duo, Neithermusic, ICE, the iO Quartet, the Harrington String Quartet, the Parker String Quartet, the Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble, non|zero, the Yale Philharmonia and the Purchase Symphony Orchestra.

Suzanne was raised in the Casco Bay region of Maine and currently lives in New York City. She completed a doctorate in music from the Yale School of Music and teaches at SUNY Purchase, where she is chair of the theory and composition department.

Craig Hilton
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CRAIG HILTON

Craig Hilton swas born in New York and now resides in Raleigh, NC. His first experimentations in sound began as a teenager with a guitar and a 4 track tape recorder, unknowing of the catalogue of experimental music that came before him.

After intensive study of classical and flamenco guitar for years, he finally started to return to the idea of abstract sound designs and noise with an industrial project called Sixtus V, where he became obsessed with the idea of using electronic means (i.e. samplers, treated tape loops) to achieve sounds he was not able to create with guitar alone.

These experimentations led him down the path of more "stand-alone" pieces, utilizing clusters and creating large walls of sound completely in the electronic domain. As a result, there was a collaboration between his project at the time and the late MSBR.

Since 2001, Craig has been involved with many other projects. He toured Europe for the first time as guitarist/live electronics of the free improv. group The Feraliminal Lycanthropizers, playing in Sweden, Amsterdam, Berlin and in Hamburg as part of the Nozart Improvised Music Festival, sharing the stage with the likes of Franz Hautzinger, Tim Hodgkinson, Hans Koch and others.

Also at this time he was creator and sound designer for The Centre for Transgressive Behaviors, an experimental theatre group built around the ideals of the Theatre of the Absurd and the Happenings.

As a full time thought process, this particular group enabled Craig to really coordinate the interaction between concrete and composed sound with the live action of the performers. The group still has remnants in the US and Europe.

After a few years touring with a band back in the US, Craig once again gave full effort into his electroacoustic pieces.

Since early 2008, Craig has began performing live with his guzheng (Chinese zither). He felt the need to once again have the interaction between live acoustic and live electronics.

He has done two tours in Europe since late 2007, performing in Berlin with Derek Houlzer, Marcelo Aguirre and Penelope X, in Brussels with Yannick Franck and most recently in London playing guzheng alongside Steve Beresford.

Lance Hulme
www.lancehulme.com

LANCE HULME

Lance Hulme’s music “reflects the ambience and musical approach of the North American musical tradition. Compositional eclecticism, a conscience, playful and uninhibited attitude with tradition and the crossover between ‘serious’ and vernacular music. All these elements are to be found as well as the most advanced structural and aural techniques.” (Die Rheinpfalz Zeitung) His music has received awards from the International Witold Lutoslawski Competition, ASCAP/Rudolf Nissim Prize, Composición Musical Cuitat de Tarragona, Citta di Trieste Orchestra Competition, International Trumpet Guild Composition Competition and others, and has been performed by ensembles and orchestras throughout Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Hulme studied at Yale University, the Eastman School of Music and the Universität für Musik in Vienna, Austria. Among his teachers were Jacob Druckman, Martin Bresnick, Francis Burt, Dominick Argento and Samuel Adler. He has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar and was a guest artist at the Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM). A pianist, harpsichordist and conductor, he has premiered his own works as well as that of other composers, living and historical. His music is available through In Pegno Music, Seesaw Press and Augsburg/Fortress Press.
For many years, Lance Hulme lived in Germany, where he was founder and director for Ensemble Surprise, which presented “700 years of new music”. His music has been presented at the Warsaw Autumn (Poland), New Organ Works (England) and ISCM (Japan) festivals, and his computer music has been presented at the FICEA and Sonic Circuits festivals. He has received commissions and performances from numerous ensembles and organizations including the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Southern German Radio, the the State Theater of Baden, Pioneer Valley Symphony, the State Orchestra of Magdeburg, West German Radio, the Karlsruhe University Chorus, Coro Piccolo, the ProArte concert series, the Raschèr Saxophone Orchestra, Klammer4, Quattro Mani, the Henschel Quartet and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has received grants from Fulbright Commission, ASCAP, Culture Commission of the City of Karlsruhe, Ministry for Art and Education for the States of Baden-Württemberg (Germany), the Margaret Fairbanks Jory Fund, Leonard Bernstein Foundation, Southern German Radio and Center for Art and Media Technology . Hulme began his musical career as keyboardist for the jazz-fusion band “Dreamscape”.
Hulme's musical oeuvre encompasses a wide range of musical genres and styles. Along with chamber, choral and concert works, he has written for such diverse mediums as jazz, opera, music theater, liturgical, commercial and computer music. His musical style “cannot be pigeon-holed into one compositional school” but rather draws upon the diverse elements of his musical experience to “weave a rich expressive texture.” (Die Rheinpfalz Zeitung)
 

Jakov Jakoulov       
http://www.jakoulov.com

JAKOV JAKOULOV

Jakov Jakoulov is the versatile composer of three ballets, five concertos, numerous symphonic, chamber and choral works as well as music for over 20 theatrical, TV and cinema productions. In recent years Jakoulov’s music has been commissioned and performed by leading orchestras and festivals including the Boston Symphony Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Chamber Concerts, Armenian National Symphony Orchestra, New European Strings Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Kammerspiele Theatre (Munich), Swedish Theater “Lilla”, New England String Ensemble in Boston and the “Bachanalia” Festival Orchestra in New York City.
 
Mr. Jakoulov has an international reputation with commissions and performances of his works in Germany, Sweden, Scotland, Finland, Italy, Mexico, Armenia, Russia, Israel as well as the United States. In 1996 Jakoulov was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda Chapter of the National Music Honor Society and was nominated for an Annual Award in music composition of American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Jakoulov has recorded extensively both as a composer and a pianist. In 1998, Michael Zaretsky (viola) and Zak Bjerken (piano) recorded two compositions on a recording Black Snow interspersed with music of Shostakovich and Glinka. This recording was subsequently included in the ‘Top Five Classical Recordings List’ by Fanfare Magazine. Between 1999 - 2003 Jakoulov made three recordings of his own piano improvisations: Emma’s Songs, Children of the Wind and Within Four Walls. This summer, Mr. Jakoulov made his debut at the Verbier Music Festival performing his own violin and piano arrangement of Gypsy Concerto with renowned violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky. 

Jakoulov’s most recent commissions included the symphonic score Gifts of the Magi for the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor; Peter Coyote, narrator), and ballet Street Talk, Suite Talk which will be a part of the Edinburgh Fringe International Theatre Festival in August 2009.

Born in Moscow, Jakov Jakoulov began taking lessons at the Gnesin Music Academy from the age of four and studied piano, theory, counterpoint and composition. He later attended the Moscow Conservatory as pianist and composer. Subsequently, his experience included playing in gypsy ensembles and Jewish folk groups, conducting a small circus ensemble, and performing with an orchestra for news broadcasts. As a composer he began writing for film and for television primarily for the Moscow Artistic Theatre. By the time he was twenty-five, he had already written scores for twenty-five productions. In 1987, Jakoulov left Moscow to work in Munich and traveled extensively throughout Europe before eventually settling in the United States. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition of Boston University having studied with Theodore Antoniou and Lukas Foss. He currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Thomas Licata

THOMAS LICATA

Thomas Licata is a composer and theorist. He holds MM and MFA degrees in composition and music theory and a DMA in composition from the University of Maryland at College Park. He also studied electroacoustic music at the Institute of Sonology in The Netherlands. As a composer, Licata has written a wide variety of music that has been performed in the United States, Europe and Asia. His music is available on Neuma Records and Capstone Records.  As a theorist, much of his recent research has concentrated on the analysis of electroacoustic music, which is included in the noteworthy book, Electroacoustic Music: Analytical Perspectives (Greenwood Press, 2002). This book comprises a broad collection of essays of electroacoustic works while also demonstrating recent approaches to the analysis of this music. Licata is also editor of the book, Essays on the Music and Theoretical Writings of Thomas DeLio (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008). Comprised of a wide collection of essays, written by composers, music theorists, and performers, this book examines the work of one of the foremost composers and music theorists working today. Licata teaches music theory, composition and media arts at Hartwick College in Oneonta NY. He is also founder and director of the Hartwick College Electroacoustic Music Studios.

Elainie Lillios

http://www.elillios.com

ELAINIE LILLIOS
Elainie Lillios’s music focuses on the essence of sound and suspension of time, conveying different emotions and taking listeners on "sonic journeys". The sounds she uses for her music are varied--sometimes they are simple things like the human voice, cars, wind chimes, or water. Other times her sound material is less obvious, like crunching bits of branches, walking through snow, or pebbles shuffling in water. Elainie holds degrees from Northern Illinois University (BMus, MM, MM), the University of North Texas (DMA), and The University of Birmingham (MPhil).where she studied electroacoustic composition and sound diffusion with Jonty Harrison. Other influential mentors in composition include C.T. Blickhan, Robert Fleisher, Jan Bach, Jon Christopher Nelson, and Larry Austin.
Elainie has been commissioned by the International Computer Music Association, ASCAP/SEAMUS, La Muse en Circuit (Paris), New Adventures in Sound Art (Toronto), and Rèseaux (Montreal), and awards/recognition from CIMESP (Brazil), Russolo (Italy), and IMEB (France) among others. Her music has been presented at conferences, concerts, and festivals internationally, including guest invitations to the GRM (Paris), Rien à Voir (Montreal), l’espace du son festival (Brussels), June in Buffalo (New York), and Sonorities (SARC Centre, Belfast). Elainie’s music is available on the Empreintes DIGITALes, StudioPANaroma, La Muse en Circuit, and SEAMUS labels, and is included on the CD accompaniment to New Adventures in Sound Art’s The Radio Art Companion.
Elainie teaches music technology and composition at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she serves as Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Technology, and participates as a Faculty Research Scholar in BGSU’s New Media and Emerging Technology Center.

Marcus Maroney
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MARCUS KARL MARONEY

Marcus Karl Maroney studied composition and horn at The University of Texas at Austin (B.M.) and Yale School of Music (M.M., D.M.A.). His principle composition teachers were Joseph Schwantner, Ned Rorem, Joan Tower and Dan Welcher. In 1999, he received a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Center, the First Hearing award from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (for Those Teares are Pearle ) and an ASCAP/Morton Gould Young Composer’s award. Other awards and fellowships followed, including: a Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Music 2000 Prize from the University of Cincinnati College-
Conservatory of Music, further awards from ASCAP, a residency at the Copland House and consecutive Woods Chandler Memorial awards from Yale University. Commissions have come from such  organizations and individuals as eighth blackbird (Rhythms ), the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (Hudson), The Norfolk Chamber Music  Festival (Introduction and Barrage for the Gryphon Trio), Timothy McAllister (Denk Dir: ), the Moores School Percussion Ensemble (Pantheon), the Texas Music Festival (Märchenbilder ), the Deer Valley Music Festival (Three Pieces for String Quartet ) and the Juventas! New Music Ensemble (Dust of the Road) . Mr. Maroney served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music from 2002-2004. He is currently
Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. His academic pursuits include research on the music and life of Swiss composer Frank Martin, for which he was awarded a grant from the University of Houston for residency at the Paul Sacher
Stiftung in Basel.

Paul Moravec    
www.paulmoravec.com

PAUL MORAVEC

Paule Moravec, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music, has composed over one hundred orchestral, chamber, choral, lyric, film, and electro-acoustic compositions. His music has been described as "tuneful, ebullient and wonderfully energetic" (San Francisco Chronicle), "riveting and fascinating" (NPR), and "assured, virtuosic" (Wall Street Journal). The New York Times recently praised his quartet, Vince & Jan: 1945, with, "This masterly miniature conveyed warm nostalgia, buoyant swing and wartime unease."

He is University Professor at Adelphi University and recently also served as the Artist-in-Residence with the Institute for Advanced Study. Both positions are unique to their respective institutions.

Mr. Moravec's first opera, The Letter, commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera, with libretto by Terry Teachout, premieres July 25, and runs till August 18, 2009. Also in the 2008-9 season, his evening-length oratorio, The Blizzard Voices, about the Great Plains blizzard of 1888, with text by Ted Kooser, was premiered by Opera Omaha, and his Brandenburg Gate was premiered by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Among Paul Moravec's numerous awards are the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, a Fellowship in Music Composition from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship, two fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as many commissions. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University, he has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Hunter College, as well as Adelphi University.

Mr. Moravec is regularly sought out by leading performing artists and ensembles. Recent performance highlights include Songs of Love and War with the Oratorio Society of New York at Carnegie Hall, The Time Gallery at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and Tempest Fantasy with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Recent world premieres include Anniversary Dances with the Ying Quartet; Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia with the Lark Quartet; Mark Twain Sez with cellist Matt Haimovitz; Cornopean Airs with the American Brass Quintet; The Time Gallery with eighth blackbird at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Morph with the String Orchestra of New York (SONYC); Cool Fire and Chamber Symphony for the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival; Capital Unknowns for the Albany Symphony; Everyone Sang for Troy Cook and the Marilyn Horne Foundation; Parables for the New York Festival of Song, Vita Brevis, a song cycle for tenor Paul Sperry; Useful Knowledge, a cantata commissioned by the American Philosophical Society for Ben Franklin's tercentenary; No Words, commissioned by Concert Artist Guild for pianist James Lent and the Gay Gotham Chorus; and two works for the Elements String Quartet.

Paul Moravec's discography includes Tempest Fantasy, performed by Trio Solisti with clarinetist David Krakauer, on Naxos American Classics; The Time Gallery, performed by eighth blackbird also on Naxos; Cool Fire, with the Bridgehampton Chamber Festival on Naxos; Songs of Love and War for Chorus and Orchestra on a CD featuring The Dessoff Choirs & Orchestra; Sonata for Violin and Piano performed by the Bachmann/Klibonoff Duo for BMG/RCA Red Seal; Double Action, Evermore, and Ariel Fantasy, performed by the Bachmann/Klibonoff Duo on an Endeavour Classics CD entitled "The Red Violin."; Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia and Vince & Jan , performed by the Lark Quartet on an Endeavour Classics CD entitled "Klap Ur Handz"; Morph, performed by the String Orchestra of New York on an Albany disc, Spiritdance, an orchestral work on the Vienna Modern Masters label; an album of chamber compositions titled Circular Dreams on CRI; and Vita Brevis, with Paul Sperry, tenor, and the composer at the piano, on Albany Records.

Kirk O’Riordan
http://www.kirkoriordan.com

KIRK O’RIORDAN
Kirk O’Riordan is an active composer, conductor, saxophonist, and teacher. His music has been performed in Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Finland, Italy, and Russia; and in 23 of the fifty United States. Performances of his works have been featured at the Ravenna Festival (Italy), the Western Illinois New Music Festival, the 2008 Eugene Rousseau Birthday Celebration, national and regional conferences of the Society of Composers, Inc. and the College Music Society; and in concert by such performers as the Eaken Piano Trio, Orchestra Bruno Maderna (Italy), the Arizona State University Chamber Winds and Symphony Orchestra, the Susquehanna University Orchestra and Chamber Singers, Kenneth Tse, Jeffrey Lyman, Marco Albonetti, Russell Peterson, Emily Bullock, Andrew Rammon, Reuben Councill, John Perrine, and Holly Roadfeldt-O'Riordan.
Kirk is the recipient of numerous awards as both a composer and a performer, including annual ASCAPlus awards, a Composer's Assistance Program grant from the American Music Center, the 2001 Arizona State University Composition Competition, the 2000 Contemporary Music Society competition, and an ERM-Media Masterworks Prize. In addition, his Cadenza for Piano Trio was one of two works selected by audience members at the CMS Mid-Atlantic/Northeast Super-regional Conference for performance at the 2008 CMS National Conference.
Kirk's music has been broadcast on KBAQ, WQSU, and WVIA radio. His Cathedral for Alto Saxophone and Organ appears on a recording by Frederick Hemke and Douglass Cleveland (EnF Records), and River Lights will appear on Masterworks of the New Era vol. 15 (to be released in 2009 on ERM-Media). He has recently received commissions from the EastWind Ensemble, saxophonist Farrell Vernon, flutist Reuben Councill, the University of Delaware University Singers, and the Grammy-nominated Eaken Piano Trio. In the 2009-10 season, Kirk’s music will be heard in Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Carolina, and North Dakota.
In August, 2009 Dr. O'Riordan joined the faculty of Lafayette College where he serves as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands. In addition, he has served on the faculties of Bucknell University and Susquehanna University. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Arizona State University (the first recipient of that degree from ASU); the Certificate of Performance in Saxophone from Northwestern University; and three Master of Music degrees (composition, saxophone performance, and conducting).
His academic pursuits have ranged from writings on musical aesthetics to works in musical analysis and aural skills pedagogy. Several of his writings were developed from essays presented on his radio program, Face the Music, which aired from 2007-2008 on WQSU-FM. His current scholarly work focuses on interdisciplinarity: he presented On Teaching Composition: Similarities, Differences, and Aesthetics of Teaching Music and Prose at regional and national conferences of the College Music Society, and continues an active interest in contemporaneous art works which span multiple disciplines, and developed a seminar course on art and music of the year 1912-13 for Lafayette College.
Kirk has studied composition with Rodney Rogers, Randall Shinn, James De Mars, Glenn Hackbarth, Jay Alan Yim, Burton Beerman, Marilyn Shrude, and Donald M.Wilson. He has studied saxophone with Frederick L. Hemke, John Sampen, Eugene Rousseau, and Iwan Roth.

Tomas Phillips
www.incursion.org/phillips

TOMAS PHILLIPS
Tomas Phillips is a composer, novelist, and teacher whose
sound work focuses on improvisational performance and minimalist
through-composition. He began composing electronic music in the
early 1990s and has since created music for installations, dance and theater. He has collaborated with Francisco López, i8u (France Jobin), Chantale Laplante, Dean King, and Tobias c. Van Veen, among others.  Labels to release his music include Trente Oiseaux (Germany), Line (USA), Non Visual Objects (Austria) and Atak (Japan).

Alejandro Rutty 
http://www.alejandrorutty.com

ALEJANDRO RUTTY
Born in Argentina, composer Alejandro Rutty’s output includes orchestral, chamber and mixed-media music, arrangements of Argentine traditional music, and innovative outreach musical projects. In his music, Rutty attempts an engaging blend of traditional subtlety, experimental sophistication, and explosive energy. The Boston Globe wrote about The Conscious Sleepwalker Loops “…the result is a blaring, multi-channel, gleefully vernacular carnival. It made a terrific curtain-raiser." The New York Times said: "Alejandro Rutty’s amusing “Conscious Sleepwalker Loops” offered an immediate test of the ensemble’s mettle…”. Other pieces generated similarly positive reactions: “… in every respect, an impressive listening experience." Osnabrüker Zeitung(About L'accordeoniste)and the Minnesota Star Tribune (About Tango Loops 2B) “…in Alejandro Rutty's wonderful "Tango Loops 2B,"… a sexy, somewhat inebriated tango pokes through the orchestral fabric every now and then, as if perceived in memory”

A unique feature of Rutty’s music is its affection for textures suggested by modern recording processing techniques, and the use of Tango - a genre he performs as a pianist-and other South American genres as part of the music’s surface.
Rutty’s compositions and arrangements  have been played by the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Argentina, National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil,  Boston Modern Orchestra Project., New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Linköping Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Amherst Saxophone Quartet, and the Cassatt String Quartet among other groups. Recordings of his music have been released by Capstone Records, Arizona University Recordings, and ERM Media.
Recipient of a 2008 MATA Festival commission and First Prize Winner of the 2008 Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Competition, Rutty’s recent and upcoming events include chamber and symphonic performances in North America, South America and Asia.Rutty’s appearances as conductor include the National Symphony Orchestra of Brazil (UFF), the UNCUYO Symphony Orchestra (Argentina), Hey, Mozart! Orchestra, June in Buffalo Festival Chamber Orchestra,  Catskill Choral Society, Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, American Opera and Musical Theatre Company, Orpheus Theatre Company and  Grand Opera Theatre.
Founder and Artistic Director of the Hey, Mozart! Project, Rutty's activities have included his work as conductor for numerous organizations, and arranger and pianist for Argentine-Tango performances. He has been Artistic Director of the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival for the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
Alejandro Rutty (Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo) is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.