Paul Seitz
(1951 - )
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Music by composer Paul Seitz has been selected for performance across the United States, in Europe, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, including, since 2005, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Millenium Stage Concert Series, the 14th World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Festival Internationale del Sassofono in Faenza, Italy, the New Zealand School of Music at Wellington, the Pine Mountain Music Festival, the Theatre Lantaren/Venster in Rotterdam, the New York Viola Society Concert Series, ClarinetFest 2008 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, and the Las Vegas International New Music Festival, and by guest artists, faculty and student ensembles at colleges and universities in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Colorado, Kansas, Wisconsin, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Texas. His music has been recorded by bass clarinet virtuoso Henri Bok, by Duo Hevans (Henri Bok, bass clarinet and Ann Evans, saxophones), The Irrelevants (Tim Deighton, viola and Carrie Koffman, saxophone), marimba artist Alex Stopa and the Wind Orchestra of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Seitz's music has also been performed by many All State and Honors Symphony Orchestras across the United States.
His opera, The Children of the Keweenaw, created with librettist Kathleen Masterson, was commissioned by the Pine Mountain Music Festival which premiered the work in 2001. William Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, interviewed by NPR after the premiere, said that The Children of the Keweenaw "demonstrates the enduring power of opera to connect with great stories." (For more background on the production, and streaming audio and video, visit the Opera page.)
Paul Seitz is a native of Racine, Wisconsin. His primary composition teachers have included Stephen Dembski, Fred Lerdahl, Joel Naumann and Robert Crane. He received his D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (with a doctoral minor in String Pedagogy), where he also completed the M. M. degree in Music Theory. He received his M. A. from Columbia University, in Gifted Education/Music, in a program that combined study of cognition, composition and practice teaching at the High School of Music and Art.
Dr. Seitz is looking forward to his new appointment, beginning in Fall 2009, as Adjunct Assistant Professor in Music Theory in the School of Music at the University of Missouri, where his wife, Christine Seitz, serves as Opera Director. In 2008-2009 Seitz was a Visiting Professor of music at the University of Texas at Tyler, teaching Music Theory and Composition. He previously served as Visiting Professor and Instructor in Theory and Composition at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and as a Lecturer in Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Seitz has also taught public school orchestra students in New York and Wisconsin. He remains involved in string education through several published (Latham Music) compositions for student ensembles and as a clinician. Paul Seitz is a multiple ASCAPLUS award winner.
For details about additional performances, please see the "News and Events" page on this site.) Music by Paul Seitz is available from Cambium Music Publications/Subito Music, Latham Music, Ltd., Alliance Music Publications, and Paul Seitz Music Publications.
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Paul Seitz (born 1951) has composed music in a many genres including opera, a rich variety of chamber music, vocal music, and compositions for symphony orchestra and wind orchestra. His opera, The Children of the Keweenaw was commissioned by the Pine Mountain Music festival and premiered in 2001. In an NPR interview following that premiere, William Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said that The Children of the Keweenaw "...demonstrates the enduring power of opera to connect with great stories." Since 2005, Seitz's music has been selected for performance at The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Pendulum New Music Series at the University of Colorado, the Musica Nova series at Penn State University, the World Saxophone Congress in Lubjiana, Slovenia, the Festival Internationale del Sassofono in Faenza, Italy, two New York Viola Society concerts, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, New Zealand, the Lantaren Venster Theatre, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the Universities of Illinois, Kansas, Northern Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada-Reno, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, ClarinetFest 2008 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and other venues. A 2007 DVD In a Nutshell (Shoepair, Netherlands), by Dutch bass clarinet virtuoso Henri Bok, features two commissioned works by Seitz. Paul Seitz is currently a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Tyler, teaching Music Theory and Composition, and will begin a new appointment in Fall, 2009, teaching music theory at the University of Missouri, where his wife, Christine Seitz, serves as Opera Director.
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