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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5/02/2007
Blatant Self Promotion
Well, it has been a hard week of rejections but I'm moving on. I know I've said before that I'm almost immune to rejection, but that isn't totally true (shocked gasp). I was really looking forward to something, thought I had a legitimate shot at it, and was rejected. For obvious reasons, I might add. I'm a little fish in a nonexistent pond. Big Time things just aren't going to happen to me. I'm okay with that, I guess.
Anyhow, cool things ARE happening and I am putting my energies towards them. For those of you in the NYC area (unlike me) there is a concert coming up that may be of interest to some:
The pianist Scott Marosek is giving two concerts with this program:
Toccata by Jay C. Batzner (that's me!)
Fantasy and Song by Jon Christopher Nelson
Boundary Conditions by Brent Miller (WORLD PREMIERE)
A new work for piano and kick drum by Chapman Welch
Sonata No. 2 by Alfred Schnittke
Assorted songs by Olivier Messiaen with soprano Abla Hamza
They are happening here:
Thursday May 10, 2007, 7:30 P.M, $10
The Collected: Contemporary Music & Art
@ SDCA exhibition & performance space
Front St. at Beekman St. (South St. Seaport)
Saturday May 12, 2007, 8 P.M, $10
Broadway Presbyterian Church
114th Street and Broadway
New York, NY 10025
The Toccata of mine is my first "keeper" piece from 1994. Short, barbaric, and fun. I still dig it, which is a good sign. Brent Miller is a real cool composer, too, and I bet you've never heard of him. You should. He is cool in all the ways that I am not. He is the guy that introduced me to David Lynch movies. Say no more.
Anyhow, come if you can. If you can't, don't feel too bad. I won't be there, either...
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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