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American composer Mikel Kuehn (b. 1967) received degrees in composition from the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D., MA) and the University of North Texas (BM). His music has received awards and honorable recognition from ASCAP and BMI (student composer awards), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2000 and 2002 First Hearing Contests), Eastman (Hanson and McCurdy Prizes), the League of Composers/ISCM, the University of Illinois Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Contest, and the Luigi Russolo Competition (Italy). Twice selected to represent the United States abroad (by ISCM and SEAMUS), in both the acoustic and electro-acoustic mediums, Kuehn’s works have been programmed on concerts and conferences throughout the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Europe.

He has been a resident composer with organizations such as the Banff Centre (Canada), the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, Laurentian University (Canada), and The MacDowell Colony. A featured lecturer on aspects of contemporary music at conferences of the Society for Music Theory, The Society of Composers, Inc., The Society for Electroacoustic Music in the U.S., and the 2003 Eastman Berio Festival, Kuehn is the author of nGen, a free multi-platform computer music application used internationally, and is currently Associate Professor of Composition at Bowling Green State University (Ohio, U.S.).