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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.





9/13/2007
As others have done to me...

Yes, I write CD reviews. It turns out that I also get reviewed. To those I've spurned, I am with you in Rockland.

Things around the old homestead are crazy busy. I'm off to Vermillion, SD next week to talk about how Pierre Schaeffer influenced Run-DMC. Not directly. It wasn't like Jam Master Jay spent time at GRM or IRCAM, but Schaeffer's influence is there.

The subtitle of my lecture should have been "you gotta love zeitgeist."