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Michael Sidney Timpson, Composer (BMI)
University of South Florida, School of Music
4202 E. Fowler Ave. FAH 110
Tampa, Florida 33620
Tel: 1-901-272-0823,
Fax: 1-901-726-9285,
E-mail: timpsonm@rhodes.edu

Michael Sidney Timpson is an assistant professor at the University of South Florida where he teaches composition and electronic music. Previously, he taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Kansas, and at Rhodes College in Memphis. He studied at the University of Michigan (DMA), the Eastman School of Music (MA) and the University of Southern California (BM). His works have been featured throughout the United States and internationally, including in France, Czech, Ukraine, Canada, Japan, and Taiwan. He has received honors from ASCAP, BMI, DownBeat Magazine, NACUSA, the National Federation of Music Clubs and such awards as the Brian M. Israel Prize, England’s Kathryn Thomas Flute Competition; the Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award, and the Music From China International Competition. Recently, he was nominated for the American Academy of Arts and Letters composition award. His works will appear on recordings released by Albany/Capstone and CRS and have been published by World-Wide-Music. At present, he is co-chair of the Society of Composers Incorporated, Region IV.

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee
909 Oakmont Place
Memphis, TN 38107, U.S.A.
Tel: +1 (901) 272-0823
Fax: +1 (901) 726-9285
E-mail: chihchunlee@hotmail.com
Or leec@rhodes.edu

Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (b. 1970), originally from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, received degrees from the University of Michigan (D.M.A. Composition), Ohio University (M.M. Composition/M.A. Film Scoring), and Soochow University in Taipei (B.F.A. Theory and Composition.) Her teachers included William Albright, William Bolcom, Yien-Chung Huang, Yien Lu, Mark Phillips, Bright Sheng and Loong-Hsing Wen. She has received numerous honors; these include the Harvard Fromm Fellowship, Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation commission, the SCI/ASCAP Student Composer Commission, ISCM/League of Composers Competition, the Margaret Blackburn Competition, the Hong Kong Chou Scholarship, the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, the "Music Taipei" award, NACUSA, the Taiwan Environmental Protection Bureau Music Contest, the Taiwan Provincial Music Competition, the Taiwan National Songwriting Prize, a Taiwan International Community Radio grant, and the Taiwan International Young Composers Competition. She is composer-in residence with Taiwan's premiere traditional Chinese instrument group, China Found Music Workshop. Her music has had numerous performances and broadcasts worldwide in Australia, Austria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hawaii, the Philippines, Poland, Singapore, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Ukraine, and around the continental United States. She has taught at Johnson County Community College, Washburn University, Rhodes College, and the University of Michigan. Her works appear on CDs from the Albany/Capstone label and Celebrity label, and have been published by World-Wide-Music. In July 2003, Dr. Lee will be relocating to Tampa, FL; please contact her at that time for new address and phone information.

Richard Scruggs
Saxophonist

Saxophonist Richard Scruggs has a varied career as chamber musician, soloist, and teacher. He has performed frequently in America, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and the Netherlands, including such notable new music venues as the International Ferien-Kurse (International Summer Courses) and Neue-Musik-Tagen in Darmstadt, Germany, and the Festival of New Music at the Florida State University. He has given the premieres of numerous works for saxophone by Augustyn Bloch, Werner Wolf Glaser, Walter Hartley, Maurice Karkoff, Cristian Marina, and Mark Alan Taggart. For several years he studied with the renowned saxophone soloist and pedagogue Sigurd Raschér. Since earning the doctorate in saxophone performance from the Florida State University, he has served on the faculties of the Tübinger Musikschule in Germany, the Florida State University, and the University of Southern Mississippi, and has presented workshops and master classes in America, Germany, and Sweden.
 
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