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The Ghost in the Machine

Jon Welstead Jon Welstead is Professor and Chair of composition-theory and Director of the Electro-Acoustic Music Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His works include compositions for instrumental ensemble, electronic/computer music, music for dance, film, over 50 theatrical presentations and has presented both nationally and internationally. Welstead has also sevred as a board member for the Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). Some of his music awards, performances, commissions and grants include: CINE Golden Eagle and INTERCOM Film Festivals Awards of Excellence, Delius Chamber Music Award, American College Theatre Festival Awards of Excellence, Bourge Electronic Music Festival, Emerald City Classic Performance Award for music in dance, Los Angeles New Music Festival, New Music America-New York, Netherlands International Experimental Theatre Festival, Bessie Schoenberg Theatre Foundation, Baltimore Theatre Project, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, (SEAMUS) Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States, Canadian International ElectroAcoustic Music Association Festival, E u C u E 97, and the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. He has been the recipient of both NEA, NEH Grants, Centre Culturel Georges Brassens, France, Arts Midwest, Texas, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Maryland Arts Boards, and has been published by Rogers and Hammerstein, The Music & Computer Educator magazine, American Theatre Magazine, Computers in Entertainment and the Arts and Samuel French Publishing. Recently, he completed a two year guest composer residency at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., where he composed music for the United States premiere production of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and music for The Glass Menagerie. as well as completed work on the documentary film, "James Van Allen: Flights of Discovery."

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