Mike McFerron

McFerron serves on the executive committee of Society of Composers, Inc., the board of directors for the Chicago Composers Forum, and the board of directors for the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra. McFerron’s music can be heard on numerous commercial CDs as well as on his website at http://www.bigcomposer.com. .


Mike McFerron


Mike McFerron is an associate professor of music and composer-in-residence at Lewis University in the Chicago area. At Lewis University, McFerron teaches music composition and directs the music technology program. He received a DMA in composition from the Conservatory of Music—University of Missouri at Kansas City where his primary teachers were James Mobberley, Chen Yi, and Gerald Kemner. A native of Oklahoma, McFerron attended Oklahoma City University where he studied with Ray E. Luke. He has been on the faculty of UMKC and the Kansas City Kansas Community College, and he has served as resident composer at the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers’ Forum in Bennington, Vt. McFerron is founder and co-director of Electronic Music Midwest.
McFerron has won the Lousiville Orchestra Composition Competition (2002), was a recipient of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s “First Hearing” Program (2001), and he was chosen the winner of the Cantus Commissioning/Residency Program, and he was the recipient of the 2005 CCF Abelson Art Song Commission. He received an honorable distinction in the Masterprize International Composition Competition (2003) and the Rudolf Nissim Prize (2001), and he has been a finalist in the 2004 Confluencias Electronic Miniatures II International Competition, the 2005 Truman State/MACRO Composition Competition, The 2005 American Modern Ensemble Composition Competition, the 2002 Swan Composition Competition, the 1999 Salvatore Martirano Composition Contest, and the 1997 South Bay Master Chorale Choral Composition Contest. McFerron has been a composers fellow at the MacDowell Colony (2001), June in Buffalo (1997), and the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers’ Forum in Bennington, Vt (1999). His music has been featured on SCI National Conferences, SEAMUS National Conferences, University of Richmond’s 3rd Practice Festival, Spark Conference, Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festivals, Spring in Havanna, the MAVerick Festival, several SCI regional conferences, and concerts and radio broadcasts across the U.S. and throughout Europe. He has received commissions from Cantus, SUNY-Oswego, GéNIA, the Chamber Music Conference of the East/Composers’ Forum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Jesus Florido, Thomas Clement, Lewis University, Sumner Academy of Arts and Science, and twice by the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra.
McFerron serves on the executive committee of Society of Composers, Inc., the board of directors for the Chicago Composers Forum, and the board of directors for the Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra. McFerron’s music can be heard on numerous commercial CDs as well as on his website at http://www.bigcomposer.com. .

Select List of Works Large Ensemble Heroic Overture #1: Cuchulainn* - Youth orchestra (2005) Odiporìa* - SATB and Orchestra (2002) On the Edge* - Orchestra (2002) Between the Extremes* - Orchestra (2001) Perspectives - Orchestra (2000) Stepping Through. . . - Orchestra (1999) Ten High - Solo Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1996). Chamber Music Winter Solstice - Cello and Piano (2004) Lewis Fanfare - Brass and Percussion (2004) Kreutzer Fantasy - Violin, Cello, and Piano (2004) Improvisation for Violoncello and Percussionists - (2004) Conversation 2 - Vibraphone (2003) Insistent Disturbance - Piano and Percussion (2003) Rainbow Magnetic Spinning Wheel - 4-hand Piano (2003) Views for Piano (2001) Two Images for Violin * (2001) Experience 3 * - Fl, Ob, Cl, Vlc (2000) Hamburger Pattie Machine * - Cl, Vl, Vlc (1999) Conversation * - Flute (1999) Trio Divergent - Fl, Vlc, Perc (1999) Three Short Pieces for Six Players - Fl, Cl, Perc, Vl, Vlc, and Piano (1999) Three Preludes for Piano (1999) Music for Flute Violin and Piano (1998) Experience 1 (1997) Music for Viola and Piano (1996) Red Earth - Fl, Cl, Perc, Vl, Vlc, and Piano (1996) Electroacoustic Music Canticle - Baritone and 5.1 playback (2006) Torrid Mix - Piano and tape (2006) Minute Distances - Tape (2005) 􀏶p􀏶x ≥ h/4π - Tape (2004) 9.17.2003 - Tape (2004) Dos Paisajes * - Violin and tape (2002) Retrospection * - Tape (2001)