Biography
Timothy Edwards, Adjunct Professor of Instruction in the School of Audio and Music, teaches in the areas of Musicianship, Aural Skills, Theory, Analysis and Practice, Composition, Orchestration, Arranging and Music History.聽
He is an active composer living in Chicago where he cooks up an ever changing brew of eclectic musical variety combining rhythmic, avant-garde, jazz and contrapuntal elements that cross boundaries between musical genres and styles to create a highly personal expression. Recent performances and recordings include Yarn/Wire ensemble, Black Oak Ensemble, Spektral Quartet, Dal Niente and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra.聽
His music and has been performed throughout the United States and in Europe and has appeared at music festivals such as the Bowling Green, and FSU festivals of new music, Outside the Box festival at SIU, Sonic Impact at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Eurofest Zupfmusik in Bamberg, Germany and the Society for Electroacoustic Music in Sweden, Stockholm. Recordings of Edwards' music can be found on the Naxos, Navona and Albany labels.
His current research combines a knowledge of composition, theory, history and language to trace the development of obscure puzzle music by well-known composers from the late middle ages to the present.
He holds degrees in music from Amherst College (BA magna cum laude), The University of Massachusetts (Master of Music in Jazz Composing and Arranging) and The University of Chicago (PhD in composition), and studied composition with Ralph Shapey, John Eaton, Shulamit Ran, Lewis Spratlan, and Andrew Imbrie and electronic music with Howard Sandroff.聽
Instructional Areas
Composition, Music Theory, Aural Skills, Counterpoint, Orchestration, Contemporary Music, Jazz Harmony, Writing about Music, Electronic Music, Computer Music Programming
Creative Practice and Research Interests
Electronic Music Performance, Counterpoint, Philosophy of Music, The History of Puzzle Music
Degrees
B.A., Music Amherst College 1984
M.M., Jazz Composition & Arranging University of Massachusetts-Amherst 1991
Ph.D., Music University of Chicago 1998