Panelists
2015 Music Composition Fellowship

October 1, 2014
9:00 AM - to conclusion

Chair: Tim Storhoff
Program Manager: Morgan Lewis

Thad Anderson

Orange County

Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Technology, University of Central Florida
Coordinates UCF’s percussion studies program and presides over the Collide Contemporary Music Series and Festival
President, Florida Chapter of Percussive Arts Society and member of the Music Technology Committee
Percussionist and composer creating and performing new music; self-published original works through +Two Media, Universal Editions, Santa Barbara Music, and Alfred
Projects include the production of the soundtrack for the award winning documentary film Standard Deviation, new works in collaboration with Paul Lansky, Marc Mellits, Zack Browning, Steven Snowden, Jonathan Kolm, John Serry, Martin Bresnick, Halim El-Dabh, and Travis Jeffords
Selected performance credits: Accidental Music Festival, Winter Park Bach Festival, Austin Chamber Music Center, Syracuse Society for New Music, and Days of Percussion in Florida, Texas, Idaho, and Oklahoma
Presents clinics, lectures, and performances around the United States and as far as Bangkok, Thailand
D.M.A. Percussion Performance, University of Texas at Austin; M.M. Percussion Performance, University of Texas at Austin; B.M.E. Percussion, University of Central Florida

Miami-Dade County

Professor of Music Composition, Florida International University School of Music Founder and Program Coordinator, FIU Music Composition Program
Composer in Residence, FIU College of Architecture and Arts Miami Beach Urban Studios
Founder and Director, Miami Section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) at FIU, the New Music Miami ISCM Festival, and the NODUS Ensemble
2015 Bogliasco Foundation Residency and awards and fellowships from Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Cintas Foundation, Millay and MacDowell Colony, Sal Martirano Award, Nuevas Resonancias (Mexico), 3 Latin Grammy nominations, and Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
7 solo CDs with 12 other compilation CDs on labels comprising Toccata Classics, New Albion, New World/CRI, Innova, Albany, Rugginenti and VDM (Italy), and CNMAS (Mexico)
Published in Living Music Journal, New Music Box, Society of Composers Journal, and SEAMUS Journal
D.M.A. Music Composition, University of Miami; M.M. Theory and Composition, University of Miami; B.M. Theory and Composition, Florida International University. Additional studies with Morton Feldman, John Corigliano, David Del Tredeci, Bernard Rands, Earle Brown, among others.

Miami-Dade County

Assistant Professor of Composition, Frost School of Music, University of Miami
Music critic for the Miami Herald and South Florida Classical Review; host of the classical music Po Mo Show on wvum.org
Previous Professor, Music Theory and Composition, Birmingham-Southern College
2005 Almquist Choral Composition Award, 2004 Nancy Van de Vate International Composition Prize for Opera, 2004 Winner of the International Society of Bassists Solo Composition Competition, Alabama State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, and the NACUSA Young Composers Competition
Recent commissions 1000 Swimmers in the Canals; Ensemble FORO of Portugal; I Feel Fine, guitarist Mikkel Anderson of Denmark; Mechanisms,Trudy Kane and the Frost Flute Ensemble; Prothalamia, Empire City Men’s Chorus (NYC); The Road to Damascus, Caraval Quartet (NYC); Sursum Corda, Sursum Corda choir; The Wall Calls to Me in collaboration with artist Sally Johnson, Nine Churches, Corona Guitar Kvartet and Lithuanian Sinfonia; Tapping the Furnace, Evelyn Glennie, Stuart Gerber and Scott Deal; and The Pillow Book, Goliard Ensemble (NYC)
Compositions performed extensively in the U.S. and throughout Eastern and Western Europe; recordings available on the Living Artist, Vox Novus, Capstone, Innova Recordings, and ERM Media labels
D.M.A. Music Composition, University of Miami; M.A. Music Composition, Duke University; B.M. Composition, University of Miami

Hillsborough County

Distinguished University Professor of Jazz Studies and Founding Director of the USF Center for Jazz Composition, University of South Florida
Founder, Conductor, and primary Composer/Arranger of 18-piece jazz ensemble “Jazz Surge” with featured performances in New York, Atlanta, and New Orleans
Former President of International Association for Jazz Education, governor for National Academy of Arts and Sciences, and as a panelist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Grammy Awards
Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2000 IAJE/ASCAP Commission, two Grammy nominations, and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships
M.A. Orchestral Conducting, California State University – Northridge; B.M. North Texas State University

Alachua County

Professor and Area Head, Composition and Theory, University of Florida School of Music
Previous Lecturer, Baylor University; Instructor, University of Texas at Austin and University of Arizona
Works heard throughout the United States and internationally on six continents
Commissions from organizations including the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Duo 46, Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Catalina Chamber Orchestra; recordings by Richard Stoltzman, the Slovak Radio Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic, and numerous chamber groups
Special Distinction in the ASCAP Rudolph Nissim Prize, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s Fresh Ink composition prize, the New Music for Sligo/IMRO composition prize, International Horn Society Composition Competition, and Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artists Fellowship award
Recordings on the Meyer Media, MMC, ERM, Capstone, Mark, and Summit labels; published by Carl Fischer Music, TrevCo Music, the International Horn Society Press, Jeanné, Inc., and Margalit Music
D.M.A. Composition, University of Texas at Austin; M.M. Theory and Composition, University of Arizona; B.M. Theory and Composition, University of Arizona

St. Johns County

Presidential Professor of Music, University of North Florida’s Music Flagship Program teaching Piano, Composition, and Improvisation
Previous Music Department Chair, University of North Florida and University of Wyoming; prior professorships: Kobe College (Japan), Osaka University (Japan), University of Alaska
Award winning pianist composing and improvising music with foci in American, jazz, world music, and music of the Western classical tradition
Performance experience at major venues in United States (Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center) as well as in Europe and Asia
Musical compositions published by Margun Music (Schirmers) with work recorded on Mastersound, Capstone, and Albany Recordings (Albany, NY)
Honors: grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Association, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and several other state arts organizations
D.M.A. Composition, Yale University; M.M. Music Composition, Indiana University; B. M. Piano, Indiana University