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Claude
Baker, Chancellor's Professor.
D.M.A., Eastman School of Music, 1975. Composer-in-Residence,
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, 1991-99. Music performed by the
orchestras of Saint Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta, Pittsburgh,
Indianapolis, Louisville, the New York Philharmonic, the National
Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de
España and Orquesta
Sinfonica de RTV Española. Recipient of an Academy Award in Music
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Kennedy Center
Friedheim Awards, a "Manuel de Falla" Prize (Madrid), the Eastman-Leonard and George Eastman Prizes,
the inaugural "Barto Prize," BMI-SCA and ASCAP awards;
commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Music Foundations; grants
from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco
Foundation and the state arts councils of Indiana, Kentucky and New
York. Works published by MMB Music and Carl Fischer,
and recorded on the ACA, Gasparo, TNC
and Louisville First Edition labels. Former
faculty member, University of Georgia, University of Louisville, and
Eastman School of Music. Honorary doctorate awarded by the
University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1999. Listen to music by Claude Baker. |
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David
Dzubay, Professor; Chair;
Director, New Music Ensemble.
D.M., Indiana University, 1991. Guggenheim, MacDowell, Tanglewood, Yaddo and Djerassi Fellowships. Performances by the orchestras
of Aspen, Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Honolulu, Louisville,
Minnesota, Oakland, Oregon, St. Louis, Vancouver, and the ACO and
New World Symphony; ensembles including Earplay, Nouvel Ensemble
Moderne, PNME and SFCMP. Awards from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music,
ASCAP, Barlow Foundation, BMI, Indiana Arts Commission, National Band Association. Commissions from Chamber Music America, Fromm Foundation, Meet the
Composer, NEA, US-Mexico Fund for
Culture, Albany Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, Oregon
Symphony, Manhattan Brass Quintet, Voices of Change. Music published by Pro Nova
Music, Thompson Edition, and Dorn, and recorded on Centaur,
Crystal, Innova, Klavier, Louisville First Edition, Riax and Sony labels. Former faculty
member, University of North Texas. Composer-Consultant, Minnesota Orchestra, 1995-1998; Composer-in-Residence, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, 2005-2006. Listen to music by David Dzubay. |
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Don Freund, Professor. D.M.A., Eastman School of Music,
1972. Don Freund has composed over 100 performed works, ranging
from solo, chamber, and orchestral music to pieces involving live
performance with electronic instruments, music for dance and large
theatre works; he is also active as a pianist, conductor, and
lecturer. He has received
grants from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and prizes including the 1979 Washington International String
Quartet Composition Competition, the ISCM 1976 International Piano
Music Competition, the 1995 AGO/ECS Publishing Award in Choral
Composition, the Hanson Prize, the McCurdy Award, the Aspen Prize,
and 30 ASCAP Awards. In 1998 he was composer-in-residence at the
Australian National Academy of Music, and lectured
on his music at Royal Conservatories in Brussels and the Hague, the
Royal Academy of Music in London, the Prague Conservatory and the
Hochschule in Vienna. His works are published by MMB Music, Boosey
and Hawkes, E.C. Schirmer, Seesaw, and Vivace Press and his music is
available on CD's from CRI, Albany, Innova, Crystal, and Pro Organo. Listen to music by Don Freund. |
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John Gibson,
Assistant Professor; Assistant Director of the Center for Electronic
and Computer Music. Ph.D., Princeton University.
Compositions performed by the London Sinfonietta, Seattle Symphony, Da
Capo Chamber Players, Music Today Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, New York
Camerata, EARPLAY, and at the Tanglewood, Marlboro and June in Buffalo
festivals. Electroacoustic works presented at international conferences
held by the ICMA and SEAMUS, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music,
Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Florida Electroacoustic
Music Festival, Spark Festival. Grants and awards from the Guggenheim
Foundation, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Tangelwood
Music Center, Jerome Foundation, ASCAP, Bourges Electroacoustic Music
Competition. Recordings on the Centaur, SEAMUS, and Everglade labels.
Developer of music synthesis and processing software.
Listen to music by John Gibson.
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Jeffrey
Hass, Professor; Director of
the Center for Electronic and Computer Music. D.M.,
Indiana University, 1989. Guest composer at Washington State
University, University of Louisville and Indiana State University.
Recent compositions premiered by the Louisville Orchestra and
Concordia Chamber Orchestra. Performances at Lincoln Center,
national conferences of the Society of Composers, Inc., the College
Music Society, the International Computer Music Conference and the
Society for Electro-acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS). Works
published by the Ludwig Music Company and MMB Music Publishers.
National Band Association/Revelli Award, Walter Beeler Memorial
Award, Lee Ettelson/Composers Inc. Award, Master Fellowship, Indiana
Arts Commission/NEA. Former instructor of music theory and
composition at Rutgers University and Interlochen Center for the
Arts. Listen to music by Jeffrey Hass. |
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Eugene
O'Brien, Executive Associate Dean;
Professor. D.M.A., Case
Western Reserve University-Cleveland Institute of Music, 1983.
Fulbright, Rome Prize, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Foundation
fellowships; commissions from the NEA, Koussevitzky and Fromm
Foundations, and Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace Reader's Digest
Fund. Performances by the Omaha Symphony, RAI Symphony Orchestra of
Rome, the Cleveland Orchestra, and numerous soloists and ensembles.
Awards from American Academy and National Institute of Arts and
Letters, International Society for Contemporary Music, ASCAP and
BMI. Works published by MMB, Boosey & Hawkes, and G. Schirmer, and
recorded on the CRI, Golden Crest, Crystal and Capstone labels.
Former faculty member, Cleveland Institute of Music and Catholic
University of America, Washington, D.C. Listen to music by Eugene O'Brien. |
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P.Q.
Phan, Associate Professor. D.M.A., University of Michigan,
1993; B.S. School of Architecture, Ho Chi Minh City. Recipient of
1998 Rome Prize, ASCAP awards; grants from the Rockefeller
Foundation, the Ohio Arts Councils, Charles Ives Center for American
Music, and fellowships from the Macdowell Colony. Guest composer:
the 99 Asian New Music Festival in Tokyo Japan, the 99 & 97 New
Music Festival at Hamilton College (New York), the '96 residency
with the Kronos Quartet at University of Iowa - Hancher Auditorium,
the '95 Asian Composers' Forum in Sendai - Japan, the '94 New Music
Festival at UC Santa Barbara, the '92 Music Lives in Pittsburgh.
Performances by the Kronos Quartet, the BBC Scottish, Radio France,
Cleveland Chamber Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Hanoi
Conservatory Orchestra. Commissions from the Kronos Quartet, the
Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, the
Greater East Lansing Symphony, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble,
the Samaris Piano Trio, the New York Youth Symphony, La Sierra
University. Work recorded by the Kronos Quartet for Nonesuch. Former
Faculty member, University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana, Cleveland
State University. Listen to music by P.Q. Phan. |
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Aaron Travers, Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D Eastman School of Music. born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1975. He has received commissions from such institutions and ensembles as the Fromm Foundation, the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music, the Third Coast Percussion Quartet, the Collide trio, the Hamilton College Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Tarab Cello Ensemble, the Barlow Endowment, the University of Rochester, and the South Dakota Symphony. Mr. Travers has also received numerous awards, including the AGO/ECS Publishing Award in Choral Composition, the Chicago Symphony First Hearing Award, the Barlow Prize from the Barlow Endowment of Brigham Young University, the Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award, and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has taught at Northwestern University, Loyola University Chicago, Syracuse University and Hamilton College. He is currently writing a concerto for cello and wind ensemble for cellist Ashley Garritson. |
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Alicyn Warren, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Princeton University, 1992. Alicyn Warren is a composer of electroacoustic music whose pieces often include extra-musical elements: video images, text, or recognizable recorded sounds. Grants, prizes, and fellowships from the NEA, College Music Society, Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition. Her music and video works are available on the Centaur, Computer Music Journal, SEAMUS, and Le Chant du Monde labels. Former faculty member, University of Michigan School of Music and School of Art & Design, the University of Virginia, and Columbia University. |
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