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BIOGRAPHY - short version for your program
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Timothy
Melbinger (b.1968) lives with his wife and children in Natick, Massachusetts. His music
has been
recorded on Centaur, Albany and Nine Winds Records. Performances
throughout the
United States have featured such ensembles as Speculum Musicae, Alea
III, the
Radius Ensemble and Auros Group for New Music, and soloists including
Ingrid
Gordon, Andrey Kasparov. His accolades include The Massachusetts Music
Teachers
Association Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year, Aaron Copland
Award
(Copland House residency), an SCI commission and a California Octagon
Prize. He
completed a Ph.D. in composition/theory on the music of Mel Powell at
Brandeis
University, where he studied with Martin Boykan, David Rakowski and
Yehudi
Wyner. He also holds degrees from the University of California at
Irvine. He
has taught a variety of courses at Harvard, Boston
University, Brandeis, Providence
College and
currently at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
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