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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2/26/2008
I love it when this happens - Updated!
So I got an email out of the blue from an old buddy from my University of Louisville days (1998-2000, aka The Bourbon Years). He told me that he saw a flyer for a concert featuring percussion music "by Russell Peck, Lou Harrison, Kyle Gann, and Jay Batzner."
This is news to me, and in a good way. Not too sure what piece they are talking about and I'm rather stunned at the company my music is keeping. For a second there, I seem like a Real Composer instead of a hideous impostor lurking in the nether regions of the United States.
If any of you know more about this concert, I'd love to hear it. In the mean time, I'm going to work in my office and pretend I'm famous for the next hour or so. UPDATE: it is the performance of my Concerto for Timpani by the University of Kentucky Percussion Ensemble. I did know about that one. Cool stuff!
And, okay, who are we kidding, as far as I'm concerned The Bourbon Years haven't stopped yet. I'll let a musicologist determine when it's over.
Last thing: new Mancala Guest! Jason Bolte puts the Comb Filter of Love (TM) on the samples.
posted by Jay C. Batzner
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