Jay C. Batzner (b. 1974) is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida where he teaches music composition and technology courses as well as coordinates the composition program. In his first year, Jay received two prestigious grants: one to create collaborative works with visual artist Carla Poindexter and the second to initiate electroacoustic music concerts in Orlando. Prior to this position, Jay was an active adjunct professor at several colleges in the Kansas City area while he completed his D.M.A. in Composition at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory. While at UMKC, Jay received honors including a Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship and a Dean's Doctoral Scholar Fellowship.
Jay's music ranges from instrumental chamber works to electroacoustic compositions. He has participated in numerous national and international festivals including the Wellesley Composers Conference and the International Young Composers' Meeting in the Netherlands. His music is published by Unsafe Bull Music and has been recorded on the Capstone and Vox Novus labels. Jay is a frequent contributor to the new music website Sequenza21.com and a founding member of the composers organization The Collected.
Jay is a sci-fi geek, an amateur banjoist, a home brewer, and juggler.
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1/19/2006
Done?
I just (and I mean 45 seconds ago) finished my dissertation. The notes are done, the orchestration is done, all that is left is some marking and revision work. And some page layout. Always page layout work to be done.
Since there is still a whole lot of work ahead of me, it doesn't quite register that I am done with the piece. But, from a structural/compositional point of view, Illuminations is all set.
Feels pretty good.
I do ascribe to the da Vinci quote "No work of art is ever completed, it is merely abandoned." It feels quite good to be a significant step closer towards abandoning this piece.
I was concerned about the ending. The last third of the piece is a little troubling. But I like it. I think that the ending of this piece is now the only ending it could have possibly had. It feels so right to me that I'm almost giddy.
So, should I drink my special 14 year old single malt scotch now? It is a little early in the morning and I do have some parenting to do...maybe it is best to wait until this evening.
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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