Jay C. Batzner is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Central Florida where he teaches theory, composition, and technology courses as well as coordinates the composition program. He holds degrees in composition and/or theory from the University of Missouri – Kansas City, the University of Louisville, and the University of Kansas.
Jay's music is primarily focused around instrumental chamber works as well as electroacoustic composition. His music has been recorded on the Capstone, Vox Novus, and Beauport Classical labels and is published by Unsafe Bull Music.
Jay is a sci-fi geek, an amateur banjoist, a home brewer, and juggler.
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2/03/2006
Done???
Well, I'm even more done with my dissertation than I was the last time I said I was done. Now a final draft of the score is together and I'm about to start getting revision comments from my committee. Then the fun begins.
The process here is a little ass-backwards. I have to get signatory approval from my entire committee, then submit the work to the graduate school, and once the graduate school signs off I can have my defense. The other theses I've done have been the opposite. First you get approval from your committee, then you defend, then you deposit. So, for the month of February, I'll be working with my committee. Then the grad school will sit on the document (making sure my margins and paper selections are acceptable, they don't care about the music) for the whole month of March. Or longer. Then I'll be able to defend in April.
The joys of bureaucracy. A piece which was done in January won't be officially done until April. Gotta love that.
Anyhow, I'm considering this whole thing a success. Not only have I spent several months working on this piece, I still like it and want to have it performed. Usually at this point in the process I don't care about the music I just want it out of my life. My masters thesis in comp became a "shelf piece" at the end. It is a big work for tenor and orchestra, with some nice moments in it, and I never EVER want it performed. I don't feel that way about Illuminations.
Yet.
So, do you want to give the premiere performance of my wind ensemble piece? Do you have a bass sax? The piece is published by Unsafe Bull Music and you can buy either a full-sized (11x17) or miniature study score (8.5x11). Parts might take a while, though.
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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