Christian Carey is active as a composer, performer, and theorist. He received a Ph.D. in theory and composition from Rutgers University (where he studied with Charles Wuorinen), an M.M. in composition from Boston University (where he studied with Lukas Foss), and a B.M. in voice from the Juilliard School. He studied at the Aspen Music Festival with Bernard Rands and Jacob Druckman. His compositions have been performed by the New York New Music Ensemble, the Cassatt String Quartet, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Ionisation, and the Helix! New Music Ensemble, at Lincoln Center, the June in Buffalo Festival, the Music Academy of the West, the Aspen Music Festival, Two River Theater Company, the Montclair Art Museum, the Progressions Series in Baltimore, Maryland, and Music ‘99 at the University of Cincinnati. He won the 2004 Music Festival of the Hamptons Composition Competition; the Festival subsequently commissioned Mourning Madrid, a work for orchestra and live locomotive; it was premiered July 2004 in Bridgehampton, New York by the Atlantic Chamber Orchestra and the Long Island Railroad. His research focuses on Post-War American composers; he has written about Babbitt, Carter, Feldman, Rakowski, and Wuorinen. His articles and reviews have been published in Musicworks, Signal to Noise, Sequenza 21, Muso, and All about Jazz. File Under ?, his column on experimental music, ran for three years at Splendidmagazine.com, an online daily where he also served as Managing Editor. This past spring he gave a lecture on Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett at Monmouth University as part of Two River Theater Company’s festival commemorating the Beckett Centennial. He has recently been asked to contribute an article on Ralph Shapey’s late music to Contemporary Music Review. In 2006, Dr. Carey was appointed to the music theory faculty at the Manhattan School of Music as Coordinator of the Aural Skills Program; he has previously taught at Westminster Choir College, William Paterson University, Seton Hall University, and the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. He is artistic advisor and program note annotator for the New Jersey Arts Collective. Manhattan School of Music faculty member since 2006.

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