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Biography
Paul Seitz is a composer of opera and music for instrumental and vocal ensembles large and small. Supported by a Creation and Presentation Award by the National Endowment for the Arts, his opera, The Children of the Keweenaw (libretto by Kathleen Masterson), was premiered in 2001 by the Pine Mountain Music Festival, Donald Schleicher, conductor. 2018 premieres include To Vincent's Stars, for bass clarinet and wind ensemble, performed by Henri Bok and the Luxembourg Military Band, at the 2018 International Clarinet Association conference in Ostend, Belgium (with a second performance of the piece in San Sebastian, Spain, in March 2020), and ReSounding Music, for three trombones, by the ensemble Drei Bones, who commissioned the work, at the 2018 International Trombone Festival, Iowa City, Iowa. Other recent performances, in 2018, include Tempore nobis, for Ten Bass Clarinets, at the Encuentro Internacional de Clarinete Bajo y Saxofón in Popayán, Columbia, and In a Place of Deep Color, for tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, at the Festival Internacional de Clarinete y Saxofon, in Medellin, Columbia, as well as June performances of O Vos Angeli, performed by the Vox Nova vocal chamber ensemble. A highlight of late 2017 was the premiere, by the Akropolis Reed Quintet, of Bright Promise from the Fire, as part of the Odyssey Chamber Music Series, Columbia, Missouri.
Recent recordings featuring his music include: Across the Wide Missouri, New Music for Trombone, by Timothy Howe and a faculty chamber ensemble (flute, oboe/English horn, saxophone, bassoon, piano, percussion) from the University of Missouri School of Music, Martyrs by the Codigo Trio (Netherlands), In a Nutshell (Netherlands) by bass clarinet activist Henri Bok Dialogues by The Irrelevants (Carrie Koffman, saxophones and Tim Deighton, viola), Tunnel Vision by the MU Concert Jazz Band and Spiritual Planet (Klavier) by the UNLV Wind Orchestra. The 2018 composition ReSounding Music, for three trombones, is featured in a new recording Of Hammered Gold, by the ensemble Drei Bones, who commissioned the work.
Paul Seitz received a D.M.A. in Composition and M.M. (Music Theory) from the University of Wisconsin and a M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. His primary composition teachers were Robert Crane, Stephen Dembski and Joel Naumann at Wisconsin and Fred Lerdahl at Columbia. He has taught Music Theory and Composition at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and at the University of Texas at Tyler, and Music Theory at the University of Wisconsin, as well as in his current appointment teaching Music Theory and Composition at the University of Missouri, where his wife, soprano Christine Seitz, is Director of Opera and Voice Area coordinator.
Earlier in his career Paul Seitz taught public school orchestra in the Katonah-Lewisboro (NY) and Oregon (WI) districts and classical guitar at Lawrence University and Ripon College. His compositions for young string orchestras have been selected for major festivals - including more than fifteen All State festivals, four prestigious Midwest Clinic performances in Chicago and the 2014 (ASTA) National Orchestra Association Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, and ensemble contest lists across the US.
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