Stacy Garrop, Associate Professor of Composition
Kyong Mee Choi, Assistant Professor of Composition
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Stacy Garrop

Doctor of Music, Indiana University, 2000
Master of Arts, The University of Chicago, 1995
Bachelor of Music, University of Michigan, 1992

Stacy Garrop has received several awards and grants including the 2006/2007 Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Elaine Lebenbom Memorial Award, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble’s 2006/2007 Harvey Gaul Composition Competition, the 2005 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Music Composition Prize, 2005 and 2001 Barlow Endowment commissions, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 1999-2000 First Hearing Composition Competition, Omaha Symphony Guild’s 2000 International New Music Competition, and the New England Philharmonic’s 2000 Call for Scores Competition. She was selected to participate in reading session programs sponsored by the American Composers Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Dale Warland Singers. She received a 2002 Artists Fellowship Award from the Illinois Arts Council and was a finalist for the 2001 Rome Prize.

Dr. Garrop was composer-in-residence of Chicago’s Music in the Loft chamber music series in 2004/05 and 2006/07. The Loft commissioned her String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels for the Biava Quartet who premiered the piece at Yale University in 2005, followed by its Chicago premiere in 2006. The Biava recently recorded the piece for Cedille Records, which will receive its commercial release in the fall of 2007.

Her works have been performed by the ensembles Ambassador Duo, Artaria String Quartet, Callisto Ensemble, EARPLAY, Empyrean Ensemble, Enso Quartet, Helikon Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Lincoln Trio, New EAR, Orion Ensemble, Seattle New Music Ensemble, Society for New Music, and Third Angle; by Chicago A Cappella, Murray State University Concert Choir, Peninsula Women's Chorus, Princeton Singers, Volti, and Vox Caelestis; and by the Amarillo Symphony, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Youth Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, Omaha Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, and the Women’s Philharmonic. Her works have been choreographed by the a-ha! Dance Theatre of Kansas City, and conducted by Martín Benvenuto, Cliff Colnot, Karen Lynne Deal, Apo Hsu, Paul Hostetter, Donald Portnoy, Jeffrey Renshaw, Steven Sametz, James Setapen, Stephen Squires, and Victor Yampolsky,

She has attended residences at the Aspen Music Festival, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony, Oxford Summer Institute, Ragdale Foundation, Round Top Music Festival, Wellesley Composers Conference, and Yaddo. Theodore Presser Company and Hildegard Publishing Company publish several of her works.

Dr. Garrop is an Associate Professor in Composition at the Chicago College of Performing Arts of Roosevelt University. She was guest composer and speaker at the Texas Association for Symphony Orchestras conference in Amarillo, Texas in 2004. She has guest lectured at the University of Chicago, University of Missouri at Kansas City, University of Connecticut at Storrs, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of South Carolina at Columbia, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Amarillo College, and West Texas A&M University.

For further information, please visit Garrop’s website at www.garrop.com.

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Kyong Mee Choi

Doctor of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005
Master of Music, Georgia State University, 1999
Korean Literature, Seoul National University, 1997
Bachelor of Science, Ewha Women's University, 1995

Dr. Choi, composer, organist, painter, and visual artist, mainly works for chamber, electro-acoustic, interactive, and multi-media music. Her composition has also incorporated algorithmic compositional devices, geometric charts, visual art and analogues of musical elements with non-musical concepts. She has also been active as a painter, which has led her to experiment with integrating sound and image into a single artwork. As a researcher she worked in the CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) as part of the Virtual Music Project where she developed real-time audio synthesis patch in Max/MSP to respond to user/performer gestures. Her dissertation topic is the study of spatial relationships in painting and electro-acoustic music.

She has had many works recognized in numerous places, such as the 2003 Luigi Russolo International Electroacoustic Competition, the 2003 ASCAP/SEAMUS, the Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo, the 2004 Australasin Computer Music Conference, MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA in Ecuador, Third Practice in Virginia, the 2004 International Computer Music Association, the 4th Annual Electroacoustic Musical Festival in Santiago de Chile, Palmarès du 31e Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2004: Degré I-RESIDENCE, Spectrum Press and the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey Electronic and Computer Music Concert Series 2005, Merging Voices: the Fourth Annual Women in New Music Festival 2005, Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound III, Electronic Music Midwest 2005, SEAMUS 2005, Mention at the 32rd International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art/Bourges 2005, NODUS concert 2005, CMS Conference in Quebec, 2005, MUSICA NOVA 2005, and she also won the second prize at VI CIMESP 2005 Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de SãoPaulo. She was also awarded the ASCAP/SEAMUS 2006 Composition Commission 1st prize Award. Her piece was also chosen for SCI/CMS 2006, EMM 2006, ICMC 2006 and Palmarès du 33e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges, 2006. She recently received Robert Helps Prize for her Gestural Trajectory, which will be premiered in Tampa and New York City (Merkin Recital Hall) in February 2007 with monetary award $10,000. Her guitar and electronic piece, It only needs to be seen, will be premiered at SEAMUS in March 2007 and published in SEAMUS CD series as well as her ensemble piece, KANDINSKY, which will be published in SCI CD series in Spring 2007.


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Dr. Kyong Mee Choi
Assistant Professor of Composition
312-322-7137
kchoi@roosevelt.edu


Dr. Stacy Garrop
Associate Professor of Composition
312-341-2181
sgarrop@roosevelt.edu


Dr. Rudy Marcozzi
Chair, Academic Music Studies
Associate Professor of Music Theory
312-341-6493
rmarcozzi@roosevelt.edu




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