Personae / Acknowledgments

248 Perspectives of New Music PERSONAE CHRISTIAN ASPLUND isa composer, performer, and scholar based inUtah where he isComposer-in-Residence at Brigham Young University and an associate editor of this journal. The press has used the following words to describe his music: passion, panoramic power, pure pointillist, plaintive, painstaking, rhythmically toothy, rocking, remarkable, rollicking, searing, subdued, soothing, submersive, splendid, unique, enjoyable, ethereal, mesmerizing, mind-blowing, otherworldly, absorbing, intelligent, idiosyncratic, distinctive, captivating, bewitching. His scores are published by Frog Peak Music and his website is. RICHARD BEAUDOIN isa composer who studied inAmerica at Brandeis University and Amherst College, and in London at the Royal Academy of Music. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony inVermont, and has worked at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. In2005 he accepted a position as the Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Professor of Music at Amherst College. In August 2007, the first act of his opera-in-progress, PIERRE, was staged at London's Areola Theatre, directed by Andrew Steggall and starring Joseph Kaiser and Annette Dasch. RAMESH GANGOLLI was born inBangalore, India, and educated at the Universities of Bombay and Cambridge, and at MIT. After taking his doctoral degree at MIT, he taught there for a year before joining the faculty of the University ofWashington in 1962 inthe Department of Mathematics. He has served on advisory committees of the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council, and as a Trustee of the American Mathematical Society. Gangolli also maintains a serious interest inthe classical music of India. He trained as a vocalist under the guidance of several well-known vocalists of India, and has also been engaged inthe study of the texts of the oral repertoire of the hereditary lineages of musicians of India. He has given a number of recitals and lecture demonstrations inthe US and in India relating to his work. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Washington. JOHANN HASLER is currently writing-up his Ph.D. inmusic composition and historical musicology at Newcastle University in Personae 249 the northeast of England. He has been a composer for over fifteen years, and is currently researching the historical aspects of speculative music inorder to summarize and systematize musical theory according to theWestern Esoteric Tradition, more specifically the Hermetic Tradition. Composer and author MICHAEL HICKS isa professor of music at Brigham Young University and editor of American Music. His most recent book isHenry Cowell, Bohemian (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2002). KUI DONG received B.A. and M.A. degrees inthe theory and composition from the Central Conservatory of Music inBeijing. In 1991, She moved to California, where she obtained a doctoral degree incomposition from Stanford University. Kui Dong's compositions span diverse genres and styles and include ballet, orchestral and chamber works, chorus, electro-acoustic music, film scores, and multi-media art. Her recent compositions written inthe U.S. have incorporated traditional Chinese instruments and musical ideas into contemporary settings and in some compositions show influences from jazz, experimental, electro-acoustic and other ethnic music. She also performs free-improvisation on piano with her Dartmouth colleagues Christian Wolffand Larry Polansky not so frequently and currently teaches at Dartmouth College. Among the honors and awards she has received, most noticeably are The Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation commission, Forum commission, Meet The Composer/USA commissioning award. Her compositions have been presented inmusic festivals and concerts in Finland, China, Spain, Argentina, France, Canada, Germany, Australia, and the USA. Her new solo album for prepared piano "Hands LikeWaves Unfold" will be released on the othermind label in January 2008. ROBERT MORRIS isProfessor of Composition and Affiliate Faculty Member inTheory and Musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. He co-edits this journal. LARRY POLANSKY is a composer, performer, theorist, and writer who teaches at Dartmouth College and is the co-director of Frog Peak Music (A Composers' Collective). JOHN RAHN is a composer and music theorist and an editor of this journal. His website is. 250 Perspectives of New Music SOPHIE ST?VANCE received a Ph.D. inMusicology and Music History from the University of Rouen...