Paul Seitz is a composer of opera and music for instrumental and vocal ensembles large and small. Supported by a Creation and Presentation Award by the National Endowment for the Arts, his opera, The Children of the Keweenaw (libretto by Kathleen Masterson), was premiered in 2001 by the Pine Mountain Music Festival. More recently, his music has been heard in 2013 performances by the contemporary music ensemble Bent Frequency in collaboration with CORE Dance Company of Atlanta, at the 2012 World Saxophone Congress at St. Andrew’s, Scotland, in 2012 concerts by the Codigo Trio in Spain and the Netherlands and by Henri Bok, Eleri Ann Evans and Louis Afonso Montanho at the 2012 Festival Musica nas Montanhas in Brazil, by the MU Concert Jazz Band at the 2012 Jazz Education Network National Conference in Louisville, at the 2012 MU New Music Summer Festival, by Clarinetes Bajos at the XVI Curso Internacional de Clarinete in Avila, Spain, in a 2012 world premiere by the University of Missouri's University Singers, in multiple programs presented in the Odyssey Chamber Music Series in Columbia, Missouri, in the 2013 Arnhem Muziek Platform concert series in Arnhem, Netherlands, the 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival, in recitals at the University of Hartford, and in many beautiful performances by his colleagues at the University of Missouri, including two on campus 2013 premieres (so far, this year), and the 2013 premiere of La Terra Illuminata, a Sinquefield commission for the Columbia Civic Orchestra and the Columbia Chorale.
Recent recordings featuring his music include Martyrs by the Codigo Trio (Netherlands), In a Nutshell (Netherlands) by bass clarinet virtuoso Henri Bok Dialogues by The Irrelevants (Carrie Koffman, saxophones and Tim Deighton, viola), Tunnel Vision by the MU Concert Jazz Band and Spiritual Planet (Klavier) by the UNLV Wind Orchestra.
Paul Seitz received a D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Wisconsin and a M.A. from Columbia University. His primary composition teachers were Stephen Dembski and Fred Lerdahl. He has taught Music Theory and Composition at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and at the University of Texas at Tyler, and Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin, as well as in his current appointment at the University of Missouri.
Recent recordings featuring his music include Martyrs by the Codigo Trio (Netherlands), In a Nutshell (Netherlands) by bass clarinet virtuoso Henri Bok Dialogues by The Irrelevants (Carrie Koffman, saxophones and Tim Deighton, viola), Tunnel Vision by the MU Concert Jazz Band and Spiritual Planet (Klavier) by the UNLV Wind Orchestra.
Paul Seitz received a D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Wisconsin and a M.A. from Columbia University. His primary composition teachers were Stephen Dembski and Fred Lerdahl. He has taught Music Theory and Composition at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and at the University of Texas at Tyler, and Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin, as well as in his current appointment at the University of Missouri.
