Paul Seitz

School of Music - University of Missouri

Paul Seitz Adjunct Assistant Professor
Music Theory
DMA, University of Wisconsin
office: 228 Fine Arts Building
phone: 573-882-9226
fax: 573-884-7444
email: SeitzP@missouri.edu
Web site: www.paulseitz.net
mailing address: 140 Fine Arts, Columbia, MO 65211

Paul Seitz received his M. M. degree in Music Theory and his D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Wisconsin, where he also completed his B.M. degree in Music History and Theory, and the M. A. degree from Columbia University. His primary composition teachers include Stephen Dembski and Fred Lerdahl. Before joining the MU faculty, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Tyler and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and as lecturer in music theory at the University of Wisconsin.

Since 2005, Seitz's music has been selected for performance at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Pendulum New Music Series at the University of Colorado, the Musica Nova series at Penn State University, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the World Saxophone Congress in Lubjiana, Slovenia, the Festival Internationale del Sassofono in Faenza, Italy, New York Viola Society concert series, the Universities of Illinois, Kansas, Northern Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada-Reno, Texas (at Tyler and UT- Pan American), the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, New Zealand, the Lantaren Venster Theatre, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, ClarinetFest 2008 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and other venues, with 2009-2010 premieres planned in Austria and Brazil. Compositions by Paul Seitz are featured in recordings by Dutch bass clarinetist Henri Bok, English saxophonist Eleri Ann Evans, The Irrelevants (violist Timothy Deighton and saxophonist Carrie Koffman), marimbist Alex Stopa and the UNLV Wind Orchestra.