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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10/03/2006
Another one, then I'll stop.
I think I was about 10 years old when I got my first Spike Jones and the City Slickers records. In many ways, they make up the core of my musical self. I'm working on making them more of a surface feature of my music but that is a rather difficult process. It would be like pulling out those "piano pieces" I wrote when I was 6 and trying to turn them into a "real" piece.
Anyhow, this video shows just how talented these players were. I showed this to my orchestration class after our string unit...
Check it out. Right here.
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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