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theorist, writing and lecturing on György Ligeti, Björk, and Radiohead. He also collaborates with theband Pink Martini and rock singer Storm Large.Born in 1965, he grew up in Illinois and studied at Northwestern and Cornell Universities, and theCalifornia Institute of the Arts; his teachers include Steven Stucky, Karel Husa, Mel Powell, BillKarlins and Alan Stout. His music has won awards from Northwestern, Cornell, the ConservatoireAméricain de Fontainebleau, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Composers, Inc., theDebussy Trio, the Howard Foundation, the College Band Directors National Association, the NewYork State Federation of Music Clubs, the Illinois Arts Council, the American Music Center, andASCAP. Among his commissions are works for Northwestern University, University of Illinois, theSyracuse Society for New Music, Pink Martini and the Oregon Symphony, the Quad CitySymphony, the Chicago Symphony, Quartet New Generation and the New Philharmonic, PianoSpheres, and the American Composers Orchestra.Mason Bates was raised in Virginia where he studied piano with Hope Armstrong Erb andcomposition with Dika Newlin, Bates enrolled in the Columbia-Juilliard program in New York City.Earning degrees in music composition and English literature, he studied primarily with JohnCorigliano and also with David Del Tredici and Samuel Adler. He worked with Edmund Campionat the University of California, Berkeley, where the Center for New Music and Audio Technologiesbecame an important influence on his approach to electro-acoustic composition. Awards include theHeinz Award, the Rome and Berlin Prizes, a Charles Ives scholarship and fellowship from theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters, the Jacob Druckman Memorial Prize from Aspen MusicFestival, ASCAP and BMI awards, and fellowships from Tanglewood, Creative Capital and theGuggenheim Foundation.Bates was appointed by Music Director Riccardo Muti, along with Anna Clyne, as one of ChicagoSymphony Orchestra's Mead Composers-in-Residence and took up the post in the 2010/11 seasonfor a term of two years. Maestro Muti extended both Bates's and Clyne's terms through the 2013/14season, which enables them to develop further the collaborations he has commenced with variouspartners in Chicago as well as new relationships.Bates has become a visible advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, whether throughinstitutional partnerships or through his classical/DJ project Mercury Soul, which has transformedspaces ranging from commercial clubs to Frank Gehry-designed concert halls into exciting, hybridmusical events drawing over a thousand people. Other collaborations include works toured by LevyDance. As a DJ, he often appears with upright bassist David Arend in spaces from San Francisco toBerlin, including Mezzanine, Temple, Volksbühne, John Colins and SFMOMA. (www.cso.org)
THE CONDUCTORDr. Linda R. Moorhouse joined the Illinois faculty in the fall of 2010 and currently serves as InterimDirector of Bands and Associate Professor of Music. Within the School of Music, she serves asconductor of the Illinois Wind Symphony and teaches courses in graduate and undergraduateconducting and graduate wind literature. Prior to her Illinois appointment, she served on the facultyat Louisiana State University for over 20 years, where she conducted the LSU Symphonic Winds,served as the primary instructor and drill designer of the award-winning Tiger Marching Band,taught instrumental conducting, and administered the LSU Summer Music Camps. She is also arecipient of numerous teaching awards, including the LSU Tiger Athletic Foundation’s “President’sAward” and “Undergraduate Teaching Award,” campus-wide awards for teaching excellence, inaddition to the LSU School of Music “Excellence in Teaching Award.”She has been honored by the John Philip Sousa Foundation with the Sudler “Order of Merit,” and byPhi Beta Mu with the “Outstanding Bandmaster” award for Louisiana. A distinguished MemberLaureate of Sigma Alpha Iota, international fraternity for women in music, Dr. Moorhouse hasreceived the “Citation of Excellence” from the National Band Association on numerous occasionsand the “Silver Baton” and “International Golden Rose” awards from the Women Band DirectorsInternational.Dr. Moorhouse maintains an active schedule having appeared as an adjudicator and guestconductor both nationally and internationally. An elected member of the prestigious AmericanBandmasters Association, she is a Past-President and currently Executive Secretary-Treasurer of theNational Band Association, the world’s largest band organization. Dr. Moorhouse also serves as acontributing author for eight volumes of the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series (GIAPublications), in addition to two volumes of A Composer’s Insight––Thoughts, Analysis andCommentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band (Volumes 2 and 3, Meredith Music), andThe Music Director’s Cookbook (Meredith Music). She also serves as Editor of the NBA Journal.Dr. Moorhouse received a Bachelor of Music Education with Honors from the University of Florida,a Master of Music Education from LSU, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Instrumental Conductingfrom the University of Washington. In September 2010, she was inducted into the University ofFlorida Bands Hall of Fame, and her biography appears in the New Grove Dictionary of Music andMusicians.
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