Joseph Koykkar
"I seek, in my music, perceptual clarity and an economy of musical materials. I am working to produce a new musical syntax in which each musical gesture can be perceived as an outgrowth of a preceding one, gradually transforming over time, emphasizing a subtle, highly organic structure."
Joseph Koykkar is a composer of instrumental and electronic music for concert, dance and film.
Joseph Koykkar's music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and South America by the New York New Music Ensemble, North / South Consonance, California EAR Unit, Synchronia, Relache, Compagnia Brasileira De Music (Sao Paulo, Brazil), the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony (Bratislava) ... He has received 16 consecutive ASCAP Standard Awards, and support and prizes from the Wisconsin Arts Board, Meet the Composer, American Music Center, National Endowment for the Arts, American Composers Forum ... Koykkar has been composer in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Montanea Festival (Berne, Switzerland), New Hampshire Music Festival Composers Conference, New Music Festival (Bowling Green State University), NOW Festival ...
Koykkar is currently a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is active composing.
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