Richard Teitelbaum

"[MEV was founded by American composers in Rome to pool] their resources to create an alternative to the institutional electronic music studios of the day, and to the recorded tape music that was being produced in them."

A pioneer in live interactive electronic composition and performance, Richard Teitelbaum co-founded Musica Elettronica Viva and performed with one of the first Moog synthesizers. In the 1980s, he composed and performed with micro-processors and multi-pianocorders. Recently he has been working with real time interactive signal processing with Max/MSP.

Teitelbaum's collaborators include Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, and Roscoe Mitchell. He has recieved many awards including two Fulbrights, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (Germany), three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants, and awards from the New York State Council on the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, Prix Ars Electronica, and Asian Cultural Council. He has received numerous commissions, including the Yokohama City Cultural Council and Aki Takahashi (1997), Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (1990), Reader's Digest Meet the Composer (1989), West German Radio, Cologne (1985, 1990), Radio Bremen (1984), Hessicher Rundfunk (1983), and Biennale di Venezia (1984). His work has been performed around the world.

Richard Teitelbaum teaches at Bard College and actively composes and performs worldwide.