bio icon Tom Lopez teaches at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music; Chair of the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) Department and Associate Professor of Computer Music & Digital Arts. He is also the Director of the Computer Music Program at The Walden School.

Tom has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Betty Freeman Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Disney Foundation, Meet the Composer, ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, & Publishers), and a Fulbright Fellowship as composer-in-residence at CIRM (Centre International de Recherche Musical) in Nice, France. He has appeared at festivals and conferences around the world as a guest lecturer and composer.

Tom is on the board of directors of the Living Music Foundation; has served on the board of SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) and executive committee of SCI (Society of Composers, Inc.), and was president of TCMN (Texas Computer Musicians Network). He has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Copland House, Villa Montalvo, and Djerassi.

Tom's compositions have received critical acclaim and peer recognition; including a Grant for Young Composers from ASCAP for Vocal Sketch #2, and releases on CD:

The Death of the Moth by Centaur CDCM volume 37

Dirge for Déjà Vu by SEAMUS volume 17

Curvatures by SEAMUS volume 12

Hollow Ground II by SEAMUS volume 7

Hollow Ground II by Capstone SCI volume 21

17,987,547,480 by Vox Novus 2005

Moth by Vox Novus 2003

His music has been performed around the world and throughout the United States including The Kennedy Center.


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