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Eric Scott Alexander is a composer and music educator whose works have been performed
across the United States, Europe, and Asia. His music has been featured at the Thailand
International Composition Festival in Bangkok, the Florida State University Festival
of New Music, and the Open Space Festival of New Music at the University of Northern
Colorado. He has received performances and commissions from a wide range of ensembles
and soloists, including the Tree City Chamber Players, Idaho Dance Theatre, the Playground
Ensemble of Denver, the Greeley Multicultural Festival, and the Meistersingers choir
and Symphonic Winds at Boise State University.
Dr. Alexander earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from Boston University
and a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of Colorado Boulder. He
studied composition with Lukas Foss, Richard Cornell, and Charles Fussell at Boston
University; Richard Toensing and Luis Jorge González at the University of Colorado;
and Ladislav Kubík at the Czech-American Summer Music Institute in Prague. He is also
a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, the national honor society in music.
His teaching and research interests include music theory pedagogy, 20th and 21st century
music, and musical form.
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