Jay Batzner

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J. C. Batzner is a composer primarily of electronic music and is a currently on the faculty of Central Michigan University. [1] Jay Batzner is also the programming director for Electronic Music Midwest [2] He ran a daily podcast about miniatures [3] He wrote the music for Carla Poindexter's Carnival Daring Do [4] [5] His 10-minute opera Secrets & Waffles debuted in Carnegie Hall with the Remarkable Theater Brigade's Opera Shorts in 2010. [6] [7] [8] Batzner's work was also part of several 60x60 mixes including the Sanguine Mix, Order of Magnitude Mix, 2009 International Mix, [9] Evolution Mix (part I), 2005 Midwest Mix. [10] [11] In 2012, Jay Batzner brought 60x60 Dance with his colleague Heather Trommer-Beardslee to Central Michigan University [12] [13]

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  2. ↑ "Electronic Music Midwest Festival". emmfestival.org.
  3. ↑ "Inescapable Creativity: Composing 365". NewMusicBox. 30 June 2008.
  4. ↑ "UCF Department of Art – Poindexter". Art.ucf.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "Cast & Crew". Carnival Daring Do. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "Current Season". Remarkabletheaterbrigade.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
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  9. ↑ "60x60 Dance 2010 – Stratford Circus". Voxnovus.com. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  10. ↑ "60x60 (2005 / Midwest Minutes) – 60 audio works 60 seconds long". Voxnovus.com. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
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  12. ↑ "Central Michigan Life – 60 x 60 performance expected to be first of its kind at CMU". Archived from the original on 15 May 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
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  15. ↑ "Sonance: New Music for Piano: Wang An-Ming, Larry Barnes, J. C. Batzner, Clifton Callender, Michael Coleman, Jack Gallagher, Kent Holliday, Timothy Kramer, Paul Lombardi, Suzanne Sorkin, Michael Sidney Timpson, Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Music". Amazon. Retrieved 25 October 2011.
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