Kurt Stallmann
Kurt Stallmann (born 1964) is an American composer who lives and works in Houston, Texas.
Education
Kurt Stallmann was born in
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.
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
Recent works include Moon Crossings (commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation), a 17-minute work for 15 performers, video, and surround sound system;
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).
References
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- ^ "Harvard University Graduate School of Design Past Exhibitions". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ "Rice University Shepherd School of Music Faculty". Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ "iCAD'08 Conference Program". Retrieved 22 June 2011.
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- ^ "Past Fromm Foundation Commissions". Archived from the original on 27 August 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ "Chamber Music America Awards 181,500 For Chamber Music Commissions" (PDF). Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ "New Music News Wire MTC's Commissioning Music/USA 2006". Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ "Sixteen Composers Receive American Academy of Arts and Letters 2009 Awards". 3 March 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ "Rice News: The Interdisciplinary Guggenheim Fellow". Retrieved 22 June 2011.