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Member Profile: Russell Pinkston

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Russell Pinkston currently resides in Harpswell, Maine and Austin, Texas, where he is Professor Emeritus of Music Composition and the former Director of Electronic Music Studios at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA 1975) and Columbia University (MA 1979, DMA 1984). He is active both as a composer and as a prominent pedagogue and researcher in the field of computer music. His compositions span a wide range of different media, including symphonic, choral, and chamber works, electronic music for modern dance, and interactive performance pieces. He has received a number of significant honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a senior Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil. He is a founding member and former President of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U. S., and has served as a Regional Representative for the Americas for the International Computer Music Association. His music is recorded on Boston Skyline, Centaur, Folkways, Koch International, New Dynamic, Ravello, and Summit Brass Records, and published by Rein Free Press (ASCAP).
Works by Russell
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  • TaleSpin
  • Don’t Look Now
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