Keith Carpenter

(U.S.A.)

Keith Carpenter is from Houston, Texas. He earned his BM in composition from Rice University where he studied with Ellsworth Milburn and the late Paul Cooper. His earliest musical experiences came through playing guitar in rock and roll bands. As a result, Carpenter's music is often heavily indebted to rock and jazz. He often borrows elements (progressions, licks, rhythms, forms) directly from what he considers seminal rock songs, but disguises them so that they are impossible to recognize.

Carpenter is currently completing his DM at Northwestern University where he studied with M. William Karlins, Jay Alan Yim, Michael Pisaro, Amnon Wolman and Gerhard Stabler. He received his MM from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1992. While there he studied with Joel Hoffman and Darrell Handel. He has also studied at the American Conservatory at Fountainebleau where he worked with Tristan Murail and with Louis Andriessen at the Atlantic Center the Arts.

Carpenter's works have been performed in the United States and Europe. His first orchestral work, Lump, received its European premiere in 1998 in Tirana. Carpenter teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and is the coordinator and founder of the Chicago Chapter of the American Composers Forum.

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