Charles Nichols
FINALIST OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMPOSITION 2011
Composer's Biography
Composer, violinist, and computer music researcher, Charles Nichols (www.charlesnichols.com) is an Associate Professor of Composition and Music Technology at the University of Montana. He has earned degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and Stanford University, where he studied composition with Samuel Adler, Martin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman, and Jonathan Harvey, and computer music with Jonathan Berger, Chris Chafe, Max Mathews, and Jean-Claude Risset. At Yale, he worked as a Research Associate at the Center for Studies in Music Technology and as a Research Assistant at Haskins Laboratories, and at Stanford, he served as the Interim and Associate Technical Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He has presented his compositions and research, including telematic musical performance over Internet2, haptic musical human-computer interface design, and wavelet audio analysis and resynthesis, at national and international conferences and festivals, has been commissioned with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has received awards from the Concurso de Composición Electroacústica y Videomúsica de La Fundación Destellos, the Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges, and ASCAP. He is currently writing a concerto for processed amplified viola and orchestra, for violist Brett Deubner and the Missoula Symphony Orchestra.
Finalist Work: Advanced Level
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