APPLETON, WIS. — Composer Christopher Burns has been invited to do a composer-in-residence program at Lawrence University Sunday, February 25 through Tuesday, February 27. Burns, an assistant professor of composition and technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, gives several free and open to the public concerts during his time at Lawrence.
New Music at Lawrence takes place at 8:00 p.m. Sunday in Harper Hall. This concert features music by Burns, Feyertag, Fitkin, Karner, and more. On Monday, an open rehearsal with the Improvisation Group at Lawrence University (IGLU) and Burns takes place at 1:45 p.m. in the jazz room, located in room 46 of the Music-Drama Center. At 8:00 p.m. Monday evening, Burns presents “Drones and Monsters,” an electronic music concert featuring Burns’ compositions, in the Wriston Auditorium. Finally, on Tuesday Burns presents a composition seminar at 2:30 p.m. in room 142 of the Music-Drama Center.
Burns, a composer of chamber and electroacoustic music, teaches composition and technology at UW-Milwaukee. Previously, he served as the technical director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. Burns is also an active concert producer. He co-founded and produced the strictly Ballroom series at Stanford, presenting 37 programs of contemporary music from 2000-04. He is currently a co-director of the San Francisco-based sfSoundSeries, which presents new chamber music, improvisation, music theatre, and electroacoustic music.
For more information on any of these events, please call 920-832-6612.
