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Ian evans Guthrie.

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Ian Evans Guthrie, an emerging composer, performer, researcher, and collaborator, has received  the Mile High Freedom Band 2021 Commission, 1st prize for the Noosa-ISAM and Arcady  Composition competitions, 2nd prize for the American Prize, a nomination for an award from the  American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other accolades for his compositions. Many of his  works have been performed publicly around the world by fEARnoMUSIC, the Northwest  Symphony Orchestra, Moore Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Offspring, VIPA, highSCORE  Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Charlotte New Music Festival, and others. He has served  on various committees, including the Society of Composers, Inc., where he served as the Region  VI Student Representative from 2015 to 2017 before serving as Assistant Marketer (2018-20)  and Marketer (since 2020). His most recent works include a new work for the Rutgers University bands, a fixed media track for dancer Ilana Goldman, tracks for various exhibitions at Venvi Art  Gallery (Tallahassee, FL), and the score for the story ballet The Queen of Nori. 
Guthrie maintains an active piano career, frequently performing his own works and those of  other contemporary composers, including Dmitri Tymoczko. He is also an improviser, often  combining hits in various genres with his compositional intuition, particularly with dancers and  casual audiences. He began accompanying choirs and soloists at nine, and two years later made  his first appearance on the Vancouver Seafarer’s Concert. Most recently, he won and 2nd prize in  the Great Composers Competition: Music of America and many other top prizes from GCC  competitions. He has also won the 2013-14 Oregon MTNA young artist’s competition, the 2014  Brookings-Harbor Friends of Music scholarship, and 1st prize in the college-level OMTA  scholarship competition in 2012. In September 2008, he and Mary Stone performed Saint Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals with Portland’s Columbia Symphony Orchestra. He has also  released three piano improvisation albums, which can be found on your favorite online  streaming site.

He also actively researches the music business historically and currently, as well as the  relationship between harmony and rhythmic cells. He has also presented papers on The  Business With Composers at many SCI conferences, and the article is published in the SCI  Newsletter. He has presented his paper Rhythm as Function: Labeling the other progression across North America, as well as worldwide virtually. 

Guthrie received his Doctor of Music as a Graduate Teaching Assistant from Florida State  University, where he studied composition with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Stephen Montague, Clifton  Callender, Mark Wingate, and Ladislav Kubik, and piano with Heidi Louise Williams. He received  his Master of Music in Composition/Theory as a Graduate Assistant at Texas Christian University, where he studied composition with Till MacIvor Meyn, Martin Blessinger, and Blaise Ferrandino, and piano with John Owings and Gloria Lin. He received his Bachelor of Music at Marylhurst University, where he studied composition with John F. Paul and piano with Renato Fabbro. He is the accompanist, arranger, and composer for Staley High School (Kansas City), and is a dance  accompanist for the Interlochen Summer Camp. He has also taught at the University of  Pittsburgh-Bradford, and accompanied dance for Florida State University.
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