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James Romig (born August 5, 1971) is an American composer. He was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
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James Romig (born August 5, 1971) is an American composer. He was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
James Romig was born August 5, 1971, in Long Beach, California. He earned BM and MA degrees in from the University of Iowa in percussion performance, and a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, where he studied with Charles Wuorinen. He studied additionally with Milton Babbitt, and both Babbitt and Wuorinen served on his dissertation committee. In 2001, after one-year visiting positions at Pittsburg State University and Bucknell University, Romig joined the faculty at Western Illinois University, where he heads the composition/theory area. He lives in Macomb, Illinois, with his wife Ashlee Mack (coordinator of piano instruction at Knox College). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
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