Monroe Golden

	Monroe Golden



	Monroe Golden is a freelance composer from rural Alabama whose works explore alternate tuning systems and the implications of those systems for other musical structures.
He is a founding member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and was president of the Birmingham Art Association in 1999-2000. He produced the 1998 Birmingham Improv Festival, founded and directs the New Arts Stage at the City Stages music festival, and currently serves as president for the ARTBURST performance series at the Unitarian Church of Birmingham. He is the recipient of a 2003 Artist Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Golden graduated cum laude from the University of Montevallo in 1983 and earned a doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1989. His composition teachers include James Jensen, Ed Robertson, Ben Johnston, Aurel Stroé, and Herbert Brün.

- the new voice in contemporary music -

Home