PAUL FOWLER holds
degrees from Ithaca College and the University of Michigan.
His artistic output has influences ranging from Renaissance
vocal music to indigenous ritual and Japanese puppetry.
As a composer, Paul’s focus is in collaboration with other artists and
art areas. He’s worked in dance at Ithaca College, Wells College,
University of Michigan, and Wayne State University, in theatre at
Ithaca College and the Performance Network in Ann Arbor, and has
written music for several films –- one of which, Breaking Dawn, won
runner-up for Best Student Film at Germany’s Kino Film Festival.
Paul’s music has been heard at the Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y,
the MATA festival, the University of Minnesota, and Boston’s Gardner
Museum. He’s fulfilled commissions from Young Concert Artist Naoko
Takada and the University of Minnesota choirs and his music has
received the Swan Composer Award (honorable mention), the Morton
Gould Young Composer Award, and the Louis Smadbeck Composition Award.
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JOHN KLINE
is a composer and classical guitarist from Miami, Florida. He
holds degrees from Indiana University and The Yale School of Music. Among
notable awards John has received are those from ASCAP, The American
Composers Orchestra, and Yale University. His music has been performed
by Drumming Grupo de Percussao, Amadinda, Bob van Sice, The Denver Young
Artists Orchestra, the Fadoul-Leandro Duet, Tim Krol of Chanticleer, the Elm
City Ensemble, the Yale Percussion Group, and Syzygy. John is currently
living in Los Angeles, California and scoring the feature film 'The
Fatouche.'
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DAVID T. LITTLE
holds a Bachelor’s degree in Percussion Performance from Susquehanna University,
and received his Master of Music degree in Composition at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2002 as a student of William Bolcom and Michael
Daugherty. David was a 2003 recipient of the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, and his composition Screamer! was most
recently chosen by Maestro David Zinman as the winner of the 2004
Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, where Little was
a Schumann Fellow during the summer of 2003. He was awarded a 2002 BMI
Student Composer Award for his sextet “hope in the proles.” and
served as the 2001 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Fellow in Composition at
the Tanglewood Music Center.
David will begin his PhD studies at Princeton University in
the fall of 2004.
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JEFF MYERS is a graduate of San
Jose State University and the Eastman School of Music. His work Five Parametric
Etudes for Disklavier has received numerous performances and was awarded a BMI Student Composer Award
in 1998; in 2001 the work was recorded on SCI's CD series. His next major work, Metamorphosis for
violin and orchestra, won another BMI award in 2002. Subsequently, three
commissions followed, first with the Fromm Foundation
Commission for Metamorphosis II in 2002, then with New York Youth
Symphony's First Music Commission in 2003 for Regeneration, and
finally with the SCI/ASCAP Commission. Jeff
is currently studying with Bright Sheng at the University of Michigan,
where he is pursuing the DMA in Composition.
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JOEL PUCKETT
was born in 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia and currently lives
in Baltimore, Maryland. He has recently completed his D.M.A. in
composition from the University of Michigan where his composition
teachers included William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty and Bright Sheng.
Formerly a cantor at St. John's Episcopal Church in Detroit, he
has also been an active performer of both contemporary and cabaret
works. Recent recognition of Joel's work include an Aspen Merit
Fellowship, the Russell Woolen Prize, several fellowships and grants
from the University of Michigan, and a 2003 BMI Student Composer Award.
Joel was recently awarded a commission for a 15-minute piece for
orchestra, chorus, and tenor for the Washington Chorus, recipient of
the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, which will be
premiered in 2006 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Since 2003, Joel has served on the faculty of Towson University and
is currently also serving as a sabbatical replacement at Shenandoah
University in Winchester, Virginia.
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CARL SCHIMMEL
received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Music from Case Western Reserve University,
and his Master's degree in Composition from the Yale School of Music. His teachers have
included Martin Bresnick, Sydney Hodkinson, Ned Rorem, and Evan Ziporyn.
In 2001, Carl received the Joseph Bearns Prize for his orchestral work
Capa Cocha, and was a finalist in the Seoul International Composition
Competition. His work Harold and the Purple Crayon was commissioned by the Cross Sound Music Festival in
Alaska, and his Five Lies for accordion and salon orchestra has been awarded
an SCI/ASCAP Commissioning Prize and the 2004 Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Award. Carl's music is
often mathematical but has also explored the realm of nonsense, as in his
orchestra work The Chicken of the Future, written while a Fellow
at the Aspen Music Festival. Carl is currently studying with Stephen Jaffe
at Duke University, where he is pursuing the Ph.D. in Composition.
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GORDON WILLIAMSON
began his composition studies under Dennis Farrell at Dalhousie University in
Halifax, Canada, and earned his Master's degree from Indiana University in 2002.
He is currently pursuing Doctoral studies at Indiana, where
his teachers are Sven-David Sandstrom and David Dzubay.
Gordon was most recently a Susan and Ford Schumann Fellow at the 2003 Aspen Music Festival,
where he worked closely with mentors Christopher Rouse and Poul Ruders. In 2002 he also attended
the June in Buffalo and Aspen Music Festivals, and has worked in masterclasses with David Lang,
Syd Hodkinson, Jonathan Harvey, and Lucas Foss, among others.
Recent awards include a 2002 SOCAN Young Composer Award, and Honorable Mention at the 2003 ASCAP
Young Composer Awards. His music has been performed in recitals and at festivals in Canada, the
United States, and Japan, and by ensembles such as Proteus 5, the Extension Ensemble, and Kylix.
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