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 Spiritual Planet (Klavier) by the UNLV Wind Orchestra, the live concert DVD In a Nutshell (Shoepair) by Dutch bass clarinet virtuoso Henri Bok (with saxophonist Eleri Ann Evans), the CD Dialogues (Oasis) by The Irrelevants, (violist Timothy Deighton and saxophonist Carrie Koffman), Tunnel Vision, by the University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band, 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 percussionist Alex Stopa. 2011-2012 premieres of five new compositions were presented in Missouri, Michigan, Kentucky, Spain and Brazil.
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 UNLV 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.
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 UNLV 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.
