Paul Seitz is a composer of opera and music for instrumental and vocal
ensembles large and small. His music has been performed throughout the
United States, Europe, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, and can be heard on recent recordings, including the CD Sprititual Planet (Klavier) by the UNLV Wind Orchestra, the live concert DVD In a Nutshell (Shoepair) by Dutch bass clarinet virtuoso Henri Bok (with saxophonist Ann Evans), the CD Dialogues (Oasis) by The Irrelevants, (violist Timothy
Deighton and saxophonist Carrie Koffman), and recordings in progress by Janneke Schaareman, mezzo soprano, and Jose Luis Sogorb Jover, French horn, for a CD by the Netherlands based Codigo Trio, and by American marimba artist Alex Stopa (whom you may also know as the drummer in the band Big Talk).
Seitz received a D.M.A. in Composition and a M.M. degree in Music Theory 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 Texas at Tyler and UNLV, and music theory at the University of Wisconsin, as well as in his current appointment at the University of Missouri.
