Staff
Staff | Faculty Affiliates | Collaborators | Alumni | Previously CEMI
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CEMI Director Andrew May is best known for his interactive computer music; he also writes many purely acoustic works. His compositions have been performed in at least a dozen European and Asian countries and throughout the United States. He has performed internationally as a violinist, conductor, and improviser. Website. |
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Stephen Lucas is best known for his strikingly abstract computer audio/video works; he also writes many works involving live performers. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States but he strives to embrace online audiences. His other interests include electronics, cybernetics, and metaphysics. Website. |
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Joseph Lyszczarz is a composer whose music combines traditional aspects of form, narrative, and hierarchy with the extended harmonic possibilities of the present day. He strives to meld a rich gestural language with clear motivic development in a way that is simultaneously engaging, challenging, and accessible. Most recently, his work his work has been heard at the VIII International Saxophone Festival in Szczecin, Poland, and the 2011 Region II North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Las Vegas. Lyszczarz was a recipient of a BMI Student Composer Award in May, 2012 for his work Tracing Shadows. He holds a BM from SUNY Potsdam and MM from Bowling Green State University, where he has studied with Mikel Kuehn, Elainie Lillios, Christopher Dietz, Gregory Wanamaker, and Paul Siskind. Website |
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Born in Sydney, Australia in 1983. Mark Oliveiro's music has been performed by the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, Sydney Eclectic Composer Society, Sydney University Musical Society, the Greenway Quartet, Nexas Sax, the Song Company, Chronology Arts, Altera Veritas and the BIT 20 Ensemble. Mark served as composer in residence at the Wells-Metz theatre 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2010-11 seasons and recieved the IU Dean's Prize for Electronic Music in 2008 and 2010. Mark has recently received commissions from the Bourbaki ensemble, Soprano Jane Sheldon and the International Horn Society. Website. |
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Patrick Peringer has received honors and awards nationally and internationally. He won the Juan Bautista Comes Choral Composition Competition in Segrobe, Spain, selected for performance at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, and Electronic Music Midwest, as well as placing honorable mention two years in a row at the Bowling Green State University Concerto Competition. He has degrees are from the University of Idaho and Bowling Green State University where his teachers were Marilyn Shrude, Elainie Lillios, Burton Beerman, and Daniel Bukvich. Some his musical inspirations are Toru Takemitsu, Joseph Schwantner, and Jonty Harrison among others. |
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Brad Robin is a composer of both acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Compositions have included strictly acoustic instrumentation as well as live electronics for ensembles of various sizes from large chamber ensembles to solo pieces. Noise and timbre has become a greater focus of recent works such as Cycles, Chakra and Lament and the Growl. Brad is currently enrolled in the doctoral program in Composition at University of North Texas, having completed his Masters in Composition at De Paul University in Chicago. Brad Robin has also performed numerous concerts as a pianist including a series of interactive improvisational concerts. Seasons of the Mind, an interactive improvisational dance/music exploration, features Brad Robin on piano in a collaboration with artistic director Joshua Lee Foist in Seasons of the Mind, an interactive improvisational dance/music exploration on March 12th in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater. Website. |
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Dan Tramte is currently working towards his PhD in music composition with a specialization in computer music media at the University of North Texas. He also holds degrees in percussion performance (BM) and Composition (MM) from Bowling Green State University (Ohio). His primary teachers have included Elainie Lillios, Mikel Kuehn, Andrew May, and David Bithell. His music has been programmed on numerous computer music conferences and can be heard on the CDCM computer music series, vol. 38. Website. |
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Chaz Underriner (b. 1987) is a composer/guitarist interested primarily in interdisciplinary collaboration, experimental music and improvisation. His recent work includes composing and directing a multimedia opera, collaboration with numerous filmmakers, pieces for chamber ensemble(s) and collaborations with choreographers. As a guitarist, Chaz has performed the works of many living composers including Sofia Gubaidulina, Mark Applebaum and Michael Pisaro both as a soloist, in a chamber setting as well as performing in numerous music festivals internationally. He is currently pursuing a PhD in composition at the University of North Texas. |