Gustavus Adolphus College

Visiting Assistant Professor
Music

DMus, Northwestern University; MMus, Northwestern University; BA, Western Washington University

Michele Gillman, is a composer of acoustic and computer music. She earned her doctorate in music composition from Northwestern University where she studied with Amnon Wolman and Michael Pisaro. She was awarded a fellowship to study composition and orchestration at the St. Magnus Festival in Kirkwall, Orkney where she studied with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sally Beamish, and Alasdair Nicholson. The fellowship resulted in the premiere of St. Magnus' Fire, performed by the Kreisler Ensemble, at St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall. She has currently been commissioned by the Air National Guard's 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth, MN to compose music for documentary and recruitment videos. She has also worked in collaboration with Pauline Oliveros, Gerhard Stabler, Mauricio Kagel, and Jeffrey Kowalkowski. She is currently creating the Gary and Vivian Gillson Gee Whiz Show: a series of new music concerts that focus on cabaret style programming with a twist. Her music has been performed throughout the US and Western Europe: St. Magnus Festival, Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, SEAMUS Electronic Music Festival (Ames, IA), FEMF-Florida Electro-Acoustic Music Festival (Gainesville, FL), Catatonic Head/Queen Slacker (Chicago, Ames, New York), Gustavus Adolphus Orchestra (Minneapolis, St. Peter, and Chicago), Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra (Duluth, MN), Jack the Dog (Chicago), Live Bait Theatre (Chicago), the Vienna Saxophone Quartet (Vienna & Chicago), Athanasios Zervas, et al. (Athens, Greece), WNUR (Chicago) and others.

Areas of Expertise

• Contemporary Composition and Theory

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