Clifton Callender

2011 Fellow in Music (Contemporary Classical)

Leon County, Florida

Biography

Clifton Callender is Associate Professor of Composition at Florida State University, and holds degrees from the University of Chicago, Peabody Conservatory, and Tulane University.  His solo piano work Patty, My Dear has been recorded by Jeri-Mae Astolfi for Capstone and Point and Line to Plane has been recorded by Jeffrey Jacob for New Ariel.  His music has been recognized by and performed at numerous venues, including the Spark Festival, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Boston New Music Initiative, Composers, Inc., Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, National Association of Composers USA Young Composers Competition, the Northern Arizona University Centennial Composition, the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, the World Harp Congress in Copenhagen, and the ppIANISSIMO festival in Bulgaria.  Reasons to Learne to Sing, for choir, was commissioned by the College Music Society to celebrate the Society's 50th anniverary.  Also active in music theory, Callender's articles have been published in Science, Perspectives of New Music, Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Online, and Intégral.

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