Composition
BM DePaul University
MM DePaul University
DM Northwestern University
COURSES TAUGHT:
Applied Composition
Introduction to Composition
Community Audio Art
Composition and Sound Art for Non Music Majors
Rock Music of the World
CONTACT INFORMATION:
773-325-4392
About
Jeffrey Kowalkowski is a composer who has focused primarily on collaborative forms of composition for the past several years. He is Artistic Director of the Milkwood Foundation (www.milkwood.org), a not-for-profit sound art production company, which he founded in 1998. His opera collaboration Bosch tapped the gas pedal and the caprice moved forward was premiered in Hamburg in 1996, and released on CD by No Harm Done Digital Media and Publishing, New York, 2000. With DePaul alumna- percussionist Carrie Biolo he released three CDs under the name Jack the Dog. His music has been performed by ensembles in the US and Western Europe: Prop Theater Group (Chicago) Ensemble Modern (Cologne), Interzone Perceptible (Essen), Het Trio and ASKO Ensemble (Amsterdam) and others. His radio works have been broadcast in Ireland (A.A.R.T.), Canada (Boreal), Berlin (Sender Freies), and the U.K. (BBC 3). He has been invited to Center Acanthes in Avignon, June in Buffalo, the Gaudeamus and Darmstadt Festivals, and received a commision from the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago for a sound installation and CD. Additional projects include yearly teaching residencies through the Illinois Arts Council. He has also taught at the Experimental Sound Studio and The School of the Art Institute. Currently he is composer-in-residence for the Chicago performance collective Lucky Pierre.