Linda Antas was born in 1972 in Collinsville, Illinois. She came
to the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at age 17 to study composition
and flute. Her primary composition teachers there have been Salvatore
Martirano and Morgan Powell. Linda would also like to acknowledge the
knowledge attained through her less lengthy studies with Zack Browning,
Paul Martin Zonn, John Melby, and William Brooks. Linda has studied
electronic music with Scott Wyatt, computer music with Sever Tipei,
and flute with Alexander Murray.
After her Masters, she is now working towards a doctoral degree in composition
at the University of Washington with Richard Karpen.
Linda remains active in performing the works of guest artists, faculty,
and her colleagues.
Peter Alexey Botian was born and raised in the Chicago area. He was
educated in San Francisco where he studied with
Roger Nixon and Richard Festinger. He studied composition at the
University of Illinois with Morgan Powell and Salvatore
Martirano. Peter passed away in 1996 after a prolonged struggle
with leukemia.
David Bohn was born in Wisconsin in 1965; he lived there
until 1991, receiving a Bachelors and Masters in Music and playing organ
at several churches during that time. In 1991 he moved to
Illinois and received a DMA in composition from the University of
Illinois in 1994; he spent the 1994-1995 academic year as a Visiting
Lecturer at the University of Illinois. His primary composition
teachers were Joel Naumann, Yehuda Yannay, and William Brooks, and
he is currently organist at the Unitarian-Universalist Church in
Urbana.
James Bohn recieved his Bachelor of Music degree from the
University of Wisconsin in 1992. At Madison he studied with:
Stephen Dembski, Joel Naumann, Robert Crane, and Tamar Diesendruck.
He recieved his Master's degree in 1993 from the University of Illinois,
where he is currently working towards his D.M.A. At Illinois he has
studied with faculty members: Paul Zonn, Zack Browning, Erik Lund,
Bill Brooks, Morgan Powell, and Salvatore Martirano. James is a
member of SEAMUS and ASCAP.
Timothy J. Bowlby was born in Wolfville,
Nova Scotia (Canada) on 23 December 1958. He holds a B.A. in Music
from Acadia University (Wolfville), two Master of Music degrees
(historical musicology and composition/theory), and a D.M.A.
in composition/theory from the University
of Illinois.
Born in Dublin in 1970, Donnacha Dennehy
graduated with a first class honors degree in music from Trinity
College Dublin. With the assistance of a Fulbright Scholarship,
he embarked upon further studies in music composition at the University
of Illinois. Among other honors, he has received a Presser Music Award
and a number of bursaries from the Irish Arts Council. Martirano, Brooks,
Zonn, Farhat, Groocock and the codger, Brün, have each taught him
something. Luckily, he forgets easily. He is now at the Institute
for Sonology in Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Camille Goudeseune has degrees
in pure mathematics, computer science, and piano performance from
Waterloo, Canada and the University of Illinois. He startled the
U of I piano faculty with Finnissy after Mozart on his Master's recital,
hid "Space Invaders" in Microsoft Word for DOS, designs sound
synthesis software for the NCSA CAVE virtual reality project, produces
CD-ROMs, and is finishing his doctoral dissertation in composition.
He has studied with Lora Verkhovsky, Andrew Degrado, Erik Lund,
Herbert Brün, and is a member of SOCAN and ICMA.