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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6/08/2007
The competition
The other day, my daughter was sitting at the piano. She would play a few notes (major seconds), stop, pick up the pencil, and scribble on the magazine sitting on the music stand. Then she'd repeat the process. And again. And again. I asked her what she was doing "Writing music." was her response. The funny thing is, I don't write at the piano. She probably hasn't seen me do that in about a year (she turned 2 in April).
We also taught her her first joke today: What is brown and sticky?
A stick.
I think it is funnier than she does.
You want a podcast? How about two...
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