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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11/13/2007
End of Time
Well, our first batch of graduate students here at UCF just performed Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps. They played the hell out of it, too. I choked up not once, but twice. The audience was full, which was nice to see. I gave my Theory 1 students 10 points of extra credit for attending. They may have come for the points but they certainly won't go back out into the world the same way as they were before hearing the piece. Ah, aren't ulterior motives grand?
I have a lesson in under an hour. I'm finding it hard to just go back about my busy schedule as if the whole thing hadn't happened. If anyone needs me, I'll be out of the office for a while...
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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