Office Location: Sloan Music Center 106 
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:30 and by appointment
Phone: 704-894-2353
Email:jestasack@davidson.edu

B.M., Composition, University of Hawaii-Manoa
M.M., Composition, University of Hawaii-Manoa
D.M.A., Composition, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Courses Taught:
MUS 110, Exlporing Music
MUS 141, World Music
MUS 242, Music of Asia
MUS 245, Music in World Religions
MUS 261, Introduction to Composition
MUS 263, Composition in Non-Western Styles
MUS 361, Advanced Composition
MUS 401, Senior Seminar
                2005 Topic: Award-Winning Composers and
                Pieces 1985-2003: The Pulitzer Prize in Music
                and Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary
                Composition

Jennifer Stasack, born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and raised in Hawaii, has the honor of being the first female composer commissioned by WGUC-FM Radio in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Gerhard Samuel premiered the commissioned piece, Casandra, during their 30th Anniversary season series. Composing music primarily for chamber ensembles, mixed and women's choruses, and percussion, Stasack often combines her creative and ethnomusicological interests by drawing on aesthetics and formal designs indigenous to non-western musical systems in her own compositional work. Studies of Asian music include summer residencies at the Akademi Seni Karawitan in Surakarta, Java, the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Center in Seoul, and fieldwork in India and Japan. As a result of her musical studies in Korea, the Korean Ministry of Culture has declared Dr. Stasack a Cultural Ambassador.

Commissions that Stasack has received cover a broad gamut of styles and venues. A sampling: Crossing Rivers II, for flute, violin, viola and cello was commissioned by the U.S.-based Mallarme Chamber Players and received its European premiere by the St. Petersburg Quartet; the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble commissioned Offering of Tribute, based on Korean Ancestral Shrine Music, for their 20th Anniversary season; Six Elegies Dancing, commissioned by Swedish percussionist, Mikael Ericson, has become part of the standard, international repertoire for solo marimba; the Korean Broadcasting System in Seoul premiered Setting Stones, for solo kayageum (Korean zither); and Crossing Rivers V, commissioned by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, was premiered on their 2006 Neighborhood Series. Her works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe, Korea, Japan and South Africa.

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