Joel-Francois Durand in the Mirror Land

Contributors

259 CONTRIBUTORS CHRISTIAN ASPLUND is a composer, improviser, and theorist who resides in Provo, Utah where he is associate professor at Brigham Young University. He has degrees from the University of Washington, Mills College, and Brigham Young University. His teachers have included Joel Durand, John Rahn, Stuart Dempster, Bill Smith, Alvin Curran, and Thea Musgrave. He has performed with Christian Wolff, Eyvind Kang, Larry Polansky, and Willy Winant. His compositions have been performed and recorded by Marilyn Crispell, Almeida Opera, the Downtown Ensemble, and others. He is also a co-founder of Seattle Experimental Opera which has produced six of his operas. His compositions are available from Frog Peak Music. JONATHAN W. BERNARD is Professor of Music (Theory) in the School of Music, University of Washington. He has published widely on the theory and analysis of music of the past century, including the work of Varèse, Bartók, Carter, Messiaen, Ligeti, Feldman, Zappa, and the American minimalists, as well as on the history of theory, the history of twentieth-century compositional practice, and popular music of the 1960s. He is the author of The Music of Edgard Varèse (Yale University Press) and the editor of Elliott Carter: Collected Essays and Lectures, 1937–1995 (University of Rochester Press). ERIC FLESHER was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1968. Prior to earning his D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Washington, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin, Cambridge University, and California State University, Northridge. His teachers have included Joël-François Durand, Paul-Heinz Dittrich, and Aurelio de la Vega. His works have won numerous prizes, and have been performed widely in Europe, Asia, and the United States. In 2002 he was a recipient of the Franz Liszt Stipendium für junge Komponisten, entitling him to an artistic residency in Weimar, Germany. He currently teaches Composition and Music Theory at Central Washington University. RYAN M. HARE, originally from Reno, Nevada, is an assistant professor of music and teaches composition, music theory, and studio bassoon at Washington State University. He is also the bassoonist in the Solstice Wind Quintet. He earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Washington; his other degrees include a Master of Music in 260 Composition from Ithaca College and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Oregon State University. ...