Bio
Paul Seitz is a composer of opera and music for instrumental and vocal ensembles large and small. Performance venues for his music have included The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Symphony Hall, Boston, the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville, KY, the Overture Center in Madison, WI, the Pendulum New Music Series at the University of Colorado, the Musica Nova series at Penn State University, the World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the Festival Internationale del Sassofono in Faenza, Italy, ClarinetFest 2008 and 2012, the Festival Musica nas Montanhas in Pocos de Caldas, Brasil, the New York Viola Society concerts, New York Festival of Song, Bargemusic, Ltd, in Brooklyn, NY, the the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Las Vegas International New Music Festival, the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, the Odyssey Chamber Music Society, the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, the Lantaren Venster Theatre, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic (Chicago), the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam, the Pine Mountain Music Festival, and the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Central Missouri, Montana State, Northern Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Texas-Tyler, Texas-Pan American, and Nevada-Reno, UNLV, Penn State, Universidad de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Universidad de Salamanca, Ávila, Spain, and many other venues.
Music by Paul Seitz 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), the CD, Tunnel Vision, by the University of Missouri Concert Jazz Band, and Martyrs, a new CD (late 2012 release) by the Netherlands based Codigo Trio (Janneke Schaareman, mezzo soprano, Jose Luis Sogorb Jover, French horn, and Celia García García, piano).
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. Paul Seitz is also artistic director of New Chamber Music at the Calumet Art Center, presenting new works by composers with ties to Michigan's U.P. in early August of each year. For more information, please visit: www.paulseitz.net.
