TIMOTHY ROY
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Current News & Future Events 

  • I will be participating in the MNSong program through Source Song Festival. As a composer fellow, I will develop new compositions for voice during 2025–2026 and premiere this work during the 2026 Source Song Festival in Minneapolis, MN.
  • I will participate in the Spatial Spheres: 3D-Audio Art Lab workshop at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and present new work. July 2025
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during the International Computer Music Conference in Boston. June 11, 2025

Recent Highlights

  • Broadcast of Brompton & Braeswood during Radiophrenia Glasgow. April 14, 2025
  • I successfully defended my dissertation and have graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rice University. December 2024
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during Electronic Music Midwest in Kansas City, Kansas. April 5, 2025
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at Montana State University. February 23, 2025
  • Performance of Valentina V. — Faculty Recital by Hope Cowan at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston. February 17, 2025
  • Premiere of Strange Night for soprano and piano during Source Song Festival's 2025 SongSlam concert. Original poem by Phillip Takemura Sears. Laura LeVoir, soprano. January 31, 2025
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during "Sound Week Grenoble." Presented by Apnées Association, Grenoble, France. January 18, 2025
  • The "Gospel Acclamation" from my Mass of Saint Monica has been added to the GIA Publications catalog, for release in 2025.
  • I received Second Prize in the SoundChain International Composition Competition, organized by the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, Czech Republic (Trevor Wishart, jury chair). Brompton & Braeswood was performed there on November 24, 2024.
  • I received First Prize in the 2024 Computer Space International Computer Art Competition, Computer & Electronic Music category for dans les dents de la guivre
  • Premiere of Valentina V. during MN Made Festival, Saint Cloud State University. September 27, 2024
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. September 7, 2024
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at the Seoul International Computer Music Festival in Seoul, South Korea. September 5, 2024
  • I received an Honorable Mention (Alternate) for the 2024 McKnight Composer Fellowship, administered by American Composers Forum.
  • I received Second Prize in the Musicworks Electronic Music Composition Contest from Musicworks Magazine.
  • dans les dents de la guivre for harp and immersive electronics is included on "Music From SEAMUS, Volume 33" through New Focus Recordings.
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at the International Computer Music Conference in Seoul, South Korea. July 2024
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at NYU's Fieldstein Immersion Room, SEAMUS national conference. May 7, 2024
  • Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during the Robert Avalon Composers Competition Concert. Hope Cowan, harp. May 3, 2024
  • Brompton & Braeswood presented in 16 channels during the Sonorities Festival, Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast, Ireland.  April 9–13, 2024
  • Brompton & Braeswood presented over a 21-speaker ambisonic dome during Tallinn Music Week. Curated by the Estonian Electroacoustic Composers Association. April 4, 2024
  • Brompton & Braeswood was shortlisted (top 15 works out of 149 submissions) in the International Sonosfera Ambisonic Competition. Two performances in Pesaro, Italy: March 16 & 17, 2024
  • Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic parish in Dallas, Texas, is sang my Mass of Saint Monica every solemn mass during the season of Lent this year.
  • Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during the Florida State University New Music Festival. Noël Wan, harp. February 1, 2024
  • Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during the Napoleon Electronic Media Festival at Eastern Illinois University. Julia Kay Jamieson, harp. January 30, 2024
  • I received First Prize in the Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers, Professional Division, from the Foundation for Modern Music. 
  • I received a Distinction in the 2023 Prix CIME from the International Confederation for Electroacoustic Music (instruments and electronics category)
  • Southern Specter is included on the album "Made in Houston: Volume 1," released by Musica New Music Collective in Houston.
  • Hope Cowan and I have received a grant from the American Harp Society to commission Valentina V. for harp, immersive audio, and lighting.
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during the 2024 San Francisco Tape Music Festival, Victoria Theater in San Francisco. January 5, 2024
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at Western Michigan University. Dalton Recital Hall. November 21, 2023
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during the Australasian Computer Music Conference at the University of New England, Sydney. October 9, 2023
  • Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during the 32nd International Review of Composers in Belgrade, Serbia. Gorana Ćurgus, harp. October 6, 2023
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre during International Music Day. October 1, 2023
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood at Ball State University, Electronic Music Concert Series in Sursa Performance Hall. September 25, 2023
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood in during "Atemporánea" International Festival of Contemporary Music at Ástor Piazzolla Conservatory, Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 20, 2023
  • Performance of Brompton & Braeswood during the PAYSAGES | COMPOSÉS Festival in Grenoble, France. September 10, 2023
  • Southern Specter (audiovisual version) was featured during an exhibition curated by Havre de Grace Arts Collective in Maryland. June 2–July 15, 2023
  • Premiere of Brompton & Braeswood for ambisonic fixed media during the 7th edition of New Music on the Bayou Festival. June 3, 2023
  • I received First Prize in the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composer Commissioning Prize. My commissioned work will premiere during the 2024 SEAMUS National Conference.
  • Performance of dans les dents de la guivre (acousmatic version in 8 channels) during the SEAMUS National Conference. The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City. April 8, 2023
  • Broadcast of dans les dents de la guivre by Undae Radio. March 21, 2023
  • Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during Electronic Music Midwest festival. Hope Cowan, harp. March 10, 2023
  • Excerpts of an in-progress acousmatic piece were choreographed by Taja Will (Cowles Visiting Artist at the University of Minnesota) for The River Is Broken, a new dance work commissioned by UMN for the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance. Barbara Barker Center for Dance. December 2–4, 2022
  • dans les dents de la guivre has received an Honorable Mention in the Giga-Hertz Production Prize, awarded by ZKM Karlsruhe. I presented an acousmatic 5th-order ambisonic version of the piece at ZKM on November 26, 2022, decoding for over 40 loudspeakers.
  • Performance of dans les dents de la guivre during Electric LaTex. Wortham Theater at Rice University. Hope Cowan, harp. November 4, 2022
  • Performance of Southern Specter, Multimedia Arts Technology Fall Concert at Western Michigan University. October 11, 2022
  • dans les dents de la guivre was awarded First Prize in the 2022 Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award and performed at the University of Illinois, Champaign–Urbana. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Julia Kay Jamieson, harp. September 29, 2022
  • I received a NextStep Award from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council of Minnesota to pursue a two-week composition and research residency at the Norwegian Center for Technology, Arts, and Music (NOTAM).
  • Behind the Back to be performed during the ISCM World Music Days in Shanghai / Nanning (postponed due to Covid; new date TBD)
  • I contributed immersive environmental sound art for a collaboration with Ocean Music Action, The Knights, and composer/clarinettist Kinan Azmeh. April 23, 2022 at the Moody Center for the Arts in Houston, TX.
  • Southern Specter featured by Earth Day Art Model, a global telematic and media event held on International Earth Day. April 22, 2022.
  • Performance of Storm Study (8-channel version) during the Washington State University Festival of Contemporary Art Music. March 3-5, 2022
  • Presentation of Southern Specter by Audiovisual Frontiers, a virtual exhibition of experimental audiovisual works by the University of California, Riverside.
  • Southern Specter received the Black Bayou Composition Award from New Music on the Bayou.
  • Performance of Wunderkind during the La Crosse New Music Festival. November 6, 2021
  • Southern Specter was performed at New Music on the Bayou. June 5, 2021.​
 
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