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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11/26/2007
November
So where, exactly, did this month go? It seems like yesterday was just Halloween...
Anyhow, one of the places the month (and I) went was the Electroacoustic Juke Joint at Delta State University in Cleveland. Cleveland, Mississippi, that is. Mark Snyder put together a pretty hip electroacoustic music festival in his first semester on the faculty at Delta State. I missed out on the actual "juke joint" portion on Friday night, though. Essentially, they put their electroacoustic stylings on in a tarpaper shack called "Po' Monkey's." The reports that I heard of the decor and the concerts made me wish I wasn't spending so much time in the Philly airport. Next year, though, I'm going.
In other recent pre-Inlaw Invasion news, I hosted Robert Voisey and a 60x60 concert here at UCF. This was the first concert with my new gear and, unless I am mistaken, the first electroacosutic concert at UCF. It was very well attended and well received. I'm doing another concert in February and details on that will emerge as I have them.
Otherwise, November is a blur. I seem to recall something about teaching, but I don't remember.
UPDATE!
I was just given a brief history lesson on the electroacoustic stylings that happened at UCF by Bryan Pittard in UCF's very own Digital Media department. The 60x60 was NOT the first electroacoustic concert at UCF. There was a synthesizer ensemble that gave many performances a semester for several years and there was at least one documented student recital of electronic media art. My apologies for the misinformation. I'm new here and it is a big place!
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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