Timothy Kramer

M.M., D.M.A. University of Michigan
B. M. Pacific Lutheran University

Timothy Kramer's works have been performed widely throughout the United States and Europe, in Mexico, Argentina, and Taiwan, including performances by the Indianapolis and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, the Winters Chamber Orchestra, the Tacoma Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, North/South Consonance, the SOLI Ensemble, the ONIX Ensemble (Mexico), the Detroit Chamber Winds, Luna Nova, and wind ensembles at Indiana University, Michigan State, and Arizona State among others. He has also been a featured composer at the San Antonio International Piano Competition, the Mostly Women Composers' Festival in New York City, the Midwest International Clinic in Chicago, and at national conferences of the American Guild of Organists, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, and the College Music Society.

His honors include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, Meet the Composer, BMI, ASCAP, the American Guild of Organists, the University of Michigan, Indiana State University, the American Music Center, and the Clear Lake Symphony (Houston) among others. His graduate degrees are from the University of Michigan, where he studied with composers William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom, and George Wilson. He also was a student of Edward Parmentier (harpsichord) and James Kibbie (organ), and he studied with composer Martin Redel as a Fulbright Scholar to Germany in 1988-89. His undergraduate degree is from Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma). He has taught at the University of Michigan, Indiana State University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and is currently Associate Professor and Composer-in-Residence at Trinity University in San Antonio, where he also founded and heads CASA (Composers’ Alliance of San Antonio).

His commissions include orchestral, choral, chamber, and solo works and he is published by Southern Music, Hinshaw Music, Earnestly Music, and Selah. Recordings include his Etude Fantasy (on a theme for Madame Duruflé) (organ, 1995) on Calcante by organist David Heller, Colors from a Changing Sky (piano, 1994) on North/South Records by pianist Max Lifchitz, and Cycles and Myths (mixed quartet, 1996) featuring the SOLI Ensemble on a CASA CD available through CD-Baby. His piano work, Der Virtuos (1988), will be released on a Capstone CD this November with pianist Jeri-Mae Astolfi. Current projects include a saxophone concerto for Clifford Leaman, Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and another orchestral work for the San Antonio Symphony’s 2006-07 concert season.

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