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Alice Pratt Brown Hall 1709
Office Phone: 713-348-4064
Studio Phone: 713-348-5077
Fax: 713-348-5317

KURT STALLMANN
Associate Professor Professor of Music

A.M. (1997) Harvard University
Ph.D.(1999) Harvard University


2811 Alice Pratt Brown Hall
713-348-8387
stallmann@rice.edu

http://www.trigonmusic.com


Kurt Stallmann, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory, has been awarded a 2009 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two Goddard Lieberson Fellowships of $15,000 are given annually to extraordinarily gifted young composers. The CBS Foundation endowed the fellowships in 1978 in memory of the late president of CBS Records.

2008 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship recipient KURT STALLMANN devotes his energy toward synthesizing many of the mediums available to composers today. His works include pieces for acoustic groupings, acoustic/electronic groupings with interactive elements, environmental sounds, and purely synthetic sounds. As a composer and improviser, he enjoys frequent collaboration with improvising musicians and artists from other disciplines.

Stallmann's compositions have been performed throughout the United States and Europe. In past years, he participated as an active member in Composers in Red Sneakers in Boston, Musiqa in Houston, and also on the Board of Directors for the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS).

Recent premieres include a commission from Meet The Composer Commissioning Music/USA for Breaking Earth, a multi-disciplinary installation with filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti for five independent streams of high-definition video with eleven channels of audio; and Together Connected, a new acoustic work for the Fischer Duo. Current projects include a Fromm Music Foundation commission for chamber orchestra with live electronics, a new acoustic duo for Jeremy Kurtz and Demarre McGill (principal bassist and flutist in the San Diego Symphony), and an interactive electronic work for saxophonist, Stephen Duke. He is also serving as Composer-In-Residence at Sharpstown High School for the Houston Symphony Education and Outreach Program in a national pilot program sponsored by the FutureStage program of Fidelity Investments. Scholarly interests include a psychological study of how musical sequences can affect time estimation. Stallmann, with science collaborators, recently gave a paper on this topic at the 2008 International Conference on Auditory Displays at IRCAM in Paris.

Professor Stallmann is currently on leave. He will return in the Spring semester of 2010.

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Recordings

Electronic Study #1

Metaphysical Miniatures
"a quasi-orchestral sounding sextet ... playful and poetic impression"
Boston Globe
Metaphysical Miniature #2
Metaphysical Miniature #3
Dinosaur Annex Ensemble

Lumina II for Solo Flute
Leone Buyse, flute

Episodes for String Quartet
Enso Quartet

Fantasy for Horn and Tape
"recommended as a worthy addition to the literature for this medium" William Scharnburg, The Horn Call
Paul Basler, Horn

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