Jonathon Kirk
Jonathon Kirk is a composer, performer, and improviser active in many areas of contemporary music, new media, and the sound art. His works have been performed throughout the United States, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan and Taiwan by a diverse group of international musicians, most recently including members of Champ D'Action, the Harvard University Collegium Musicum, and the Millennium Chamber Players. For the year 2000 through 2001 he received a grant from the Belgian government to be in residence at the Logos Foundation for Experimental Music in Ghent where he worked with instrument builder Godfried-Willem Raes. His multimedia work has most recently been shown at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis, CYNETart_07 in Dresden, ZKM Karlsruhe, London International Animation Festival, Melbourne International Animation Festival, Boston Cyberarts Festival, Structural Elements in Chicago, and his music has recently been presented at numerous festivals including the L.A. Short Film Festival, Spark Festival, Princeton's Listening in the Sound Kitchen, The New Music Marathon, CCRMA at Stanford, International Computer Music Conference (2004/2006), and the festivities of the Cultural Capital of Europe in Brugge, Belgium. He is currently Assistant Professor of music composition and theory at Eastern Illinois University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate composition, theory and analysis, aural training, and electronic and computer music.
D.M. Northwestern University
M.M. Eastman School of Music
M.A. Brown University
B.A. Augustana College
email: jjkirk@eiu.edu
phone: 581-7041
