Kurt Stallmann

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Kurt Stallmann (born 1964) is an American composer who lives and works in Houston, Texas.

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Education

Kurt Stallmann was born in Rockford, Illinois. In 1987, he received a bachelor's degree in music from Northern Illinois University. [1] That same year, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts where he composed, improvised, and collaborated with modern dance choreographers. In 1990, he was invited by Yasuko Tokunaga to join the Dance Division faculty at The Boston Conservatory to design a course for dancers that developed listening and analysis skills for the purpose of creating new choreography. In 1992, after several years of working with dance, he returned to a concentrated musical environment by entering the PhD program in music composition at Harvard University where his primary teachers included Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky. As a student, he also assisted composer Ivan Tcherepnin with electronic music courses for several years. [2]

Teaching

In 1999, after graduating, he joined the Harvard Music Department faculty where he served as Assistant Professor of Music. During this time, he bridged together the two studios then at Harvard (HEMS created by Ivan Tcherepnin and HCMC created by Mario Davidovsky) into one entity which he named HUSEAC (Harvard University Studios for Electro-Acoustic Composition). He also encouraged cross-disciplinary collaboration with other departments at Harvard including work with VES and GSD. [3] During this period, he also founded the computer music studio at the Longy School of Music where he also served on the music composition faculty. In 2002, Stallmann joined the faculty at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University where he is currently an Associate Professor in the music composition department and Director of the Rice Electroacoustic Music Labs (REMLABS). [4]

Composing, Research

As a composer, Stallmann devotes his energy towards synthesizing many of the mediums available to composers today. His compositions are written for acoustic instruments, electroacoustic combinations with interactive elements, environmental sounds, and purely synthetic sounds. He also enjoys improvising with musicians and frequently collaborates with artists from other disciplines. Scholarly interests include a series of psychological studies on how musical sequences can affect time estimation. At the 2008 International Conference on Auditory Displays at IRCAM in Paris, Stallmann gave a paper titled Auditory Stimulus Design: Musically Informed. [5] "

In 2008-2009, Stallmann was Composer-In-Residence at Sharpstown High School for the Houston Symphony Education and Outreach Program sponsored by the Fidelity FutureStage program. [6] From 2005-2008 he was on the SEAMUS Board of Directors (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) while he served as editor of the SEAMUS Newsletter. He has also been an active member of two composer’s collectives, Musiqa in Houston (2002–2004), and Composers in Red Sneakers in Boston (2001–2003).

Recent works include Moon Crossings (commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation), a 17-minute work for 15 performers, video, and surround sound system; [7] Following Franz, Now, a String Quartet with optional electronics for the Grammy nominated Enso String Quartet [8] (commissioned by Chamber Music America); Breaking Earth Meet the Composer (Commissioned by Meet the Composer Commissioning Music/USA Program and DiverseWorks ArtSpace), a twenty-two-minute multi-disciplinary installation with filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti for five independent streams of high-definition video with eleven channels of audio; [9] and SONA: Wind, Rain, and Trains (Commissioned by the Houston Arts Alliance), a multi-disciplinary work inspired by the soundscape of Houston for string quartet with real-time digital processing, videos, found sounds, and synthesized sounds.

Stallmann’s work was recently recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with a 2009 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship. [10] In 2008, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. [11] He is currently composing a new electronic work to celebrate the unveiling of a new skyspace by artist James Turrell at Rice University (Winter 2011) and a new interactive electronic work for virtuoso saxophonist Steve Duke (Spring 2012).

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References

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  2. ↑ "The Tcherepnin Society Links" . Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "Harvard University Graduate School of Design Past Exhibitions". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Rice University Shepherd School of Music Faculty" . Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  5. ↑ "iCAD'08 Conference Program" . Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  6. ↑ "An Original Work of Art" . Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  7. ↑ "Past Fromm Foundation Commissions". Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  8. ↑ "Chamber Music America Awards 181,500 For Chamber Music Commissions" (PDF). Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  9. ↑ "New Music News Wire MTC's Commissioning Music/USA 2006" . Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  10. ↑ "Sixteen Composers Receive American Academy of Arts and Letters 2009 Awards" . Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  11. ↑ "Rice News: The Interdisciplinary Guggenheim Fellow" . Retrieved 22 June 2011.
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