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A SHORT biography PC: Badie Khalagian
Elliott Miles McKinley’s music has been performed in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Commissions include those from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Music Society, the SOLI Chamber Music Ensemble, the Martinů String Quartet, the Estrella Consort, Transient Canvas, the Semiosis String Quartet, and Hub New Music. The Minnesota Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic, and the Czech Radio Symphony have performed his orchestral music, and his works have been featured on international festivals including the the Mid-American Contemporary Music Festival at Bowling Green State University, Indiana State University's Contemporary Music Festival, the SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Art, the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference, and both College Music Society and Society for Composers Inc. festivals. He is a recipient of a number of awards, grants, and fellowships including those from BMI, ASCAP, SCI, Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, the American Composers Forum, the Rhode Island Council for the Arts, and Indiana University. McKinley is also a founding member of the electroacoustic improvisation ensemble, earWorm, where he plays a variety of keyboard and percussion instruments, and executes real-time sampling, looping, and effects processing for the ensemble. He is currently Associate Professor of Music Composition, Theory, and Technology at Roger Williams University. Read the full biography HERE.
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