Paul Seitz born 1951 Composer Paul Seitz is a native of Racine, Wisconsin. His primary composition teachers have included Stephen Dembski, Fred Lerdahl, Joel Naumann and Robert Crane. He received his D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also completed the M. M. degree in Music Theory. He received his M. A. from Columbia University, in Gifted Education/Music, in a program that combined study of cognition, composition and practice teaching at the High School of Music and Art. In July, 2001, his opera The Children of the Keweenaw, created in collaboration with librettist Kathleen Masterson, had a wonderfully successful premiere at the Pine Mountain Music Festival which commissioned the work with the support of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, and other public and private agencies. The premiere production, conducted by Donald Schleicher and directed by William Farlow, traveled to three venues in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. (For more background on the production, see links on the home page.) Other recent performances include premieres by the Bergonzi String Quartet, the James Chorale, the Chicago String Ensemble, harpist Elizabeth Cifani, and the Menagerie Dance Company. Recent live performances broadcast on Wisconsin Public Radio include his song cycle Three by May Sarton, performed by soprano Lisa Jablow and pianist Martha Fischer, and I Am Loath to Close, performed by the University of Wisconsin Concert Choir, Beverly Taylor, conductor, with harpist Chelcy Bowles, in a special memorial concert for famed choral conductor Robert Fountain. Other art songs have been premiered (New York Festival of Song) and broadcast (WNYC, New York Public Radio) by soprano Christine Seitz and tenor Peter Kazaras with pianist Steven Blier. In addition, music by Paul Seitz has been performed by the New York Metropolitan Youth Orchestra at Lincoln Center and by high school Honors Orchestras throughout the United States, including the All State Orchestras of Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, North Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Nevada, in the years 1999-2002. Paul Seitz has taught string orchestra students in the Katonah-Lewisboro (NY), Briarcliff Manor (NY) and Oregon (WI) School Districts, and string pedagogy at the National String Workshop of the University of Wisconsin since 1997. He has been a lecturer in music theory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, in Fall 2002, joined the music faculty of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, teaching music theory and string education methods. He remains active as a string educator as a viola instructor at the Las Vegas Academy of the Performing Arts. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/4632/

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