Jay Batzner

Jay Batzner (born 6 April 1974) is an American composer and music educator.

Batzner studied music theory and composition at the University of Louisville and the University of Kansas and earned a doctoral degree at the University of Missouri. He taught at the University of Central Florida, at the Kansas City Kansas Community College, Metropolitan Community College (Kansas City area), and Indiana University and offers courses in Musikthechnologie, electronic music composition and music theory at Central Michigan University.

In addition to instrumental chamber music electroacoustic music is at the center of Batzners compositional work. He has received prizes and awards from the Institut international de musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (2008), the International Composition Competition Areon Flutes (2009), VI. Concurso Internacional de Miniatures Electroacusticas (2008), the London International Film Festival (2008 ) and the UK Percussion Ensemble Composition Contest (2007). In collaboration with Carla Poindexter the video Carnival Daring -Do, which was featured in several multimedia festival originated.

Works

  • Toccata for Piano, 1994
  • Inventions for Flute and Clarinet, 1995
  • Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, 1997
  • Pioneer X for Trumpet, 2003
  • Deconstructionist Preludes for Piano, 2003
  • Concerto for Timpani, 2003
  • 10 Quartet for string quartet, 2003
  • H.B.M.D. for horn, trumpet and strings, 2004
  • Ashamed / Unabashed for two pianos and chamber orchestra, 2004
  • Near Burning, digital audio file, 2005
  • Quills and Jacks of Outrageous Fortune, digital audio file, 2005
  • Miniatures for piano and tape, 2006
  • Throb for marimba duo, 2006
  • Illuminations for wind ensemble, 2006
  • UnHandel for Organ, 2007
  • [ untitled] for six players, 2007
  • Carnival Daring -Do, video, 2007
  • Blue Jaunte, digital audio file, 2007
  • Bad Villager, digital audio file, 2007
  • Songs my Radio Taught Me for marimba, 2008
  • Mercurial for flute and tape, 2008
  • Slumber Music for Cello and Piano, 2008
  • Vartiations Passacaglia for Cello duet, 2008
  • March for Wind Octet, 2008
  • Good Night, Nobody for flute, vibraphone, violin and cello, 2008
  • Shiny, digital audio file, 2008
  • Almost Shiny, digital audio file, 2008
  • Mancala Variations digital audio file, 2008
  • Those Rejection Letters are Piling Up Again, digital audio file, 2008
  • Voiseynvention for piano, 2009
  • Natalina Sonatina for Piano, 2009
  • Calling for tenor saxophone and tape, 2009
  • Not Cool for two tenor saxophones and tape, 2009
  • Elementals for Tuba, Euphonium and tape, 2009
  • Oblique Variations for Flute and Cello, 2009
  • Cursed Motives for open instrumentation, 2009
  • Falcon for tape, 2009
  • Secrets and Waffles for mezzo- soprano, baritone, string quartet and piano, 2009
  • False for percussion quartet, 2010
  • Sonatiny for Horn, 2010
  • All My Dreams are Silent for flute and tape, 2010
  • Oblique Extensions for flute, cello and tape, 2010
  • ALEX Modes for piano, 2011
  • Number station for acoustic guitar, 2011
  • Twitch for Violin, 2011
  • .000001 % For Harp, 2011
  • Real Me for alto flute and marimba, 2011
  • No. for Violin and Cello, 2011
  • Zymurgic Landscape for tape, 2011

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  • Jay Batzners Homepage

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  • Vox Novus - Jay Batzner
  • Sequenza 21, The Contemprary Classical Music Portal - Jay C. Batzner
  • Central Michigan University - Jay Batzner
  • World Press - Jay Batzner
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  • Born in 1974
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