J. C. Batzner is a composer primarily of electronic music and is a currently on the faculty of Central Michigan University

Central Michigan University

Central Michigan University is a public research university located in Mount Pleasant in the U.S. state of Michigan...

. Jay Batzner is also the programming director for Electronic Music Midwest

Electronic Music Midwest

Electronic Music Midwest is a festival of new electroacoustic music.EMM is the result of a consortium formed between Kansas City Kansas Community College , Lewis University, and the University of Missouri–Kansas City.This festival was founded by Mike McFerron, Connie Mayfield, and Paul Rudy in...

  He ran a daily podcast about miniatures He wrote the music for Carla Poindexter's Carnival Daring Do His 10-minute opera Secrets & Waffles debuted in Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

 with the Remarkable Theater Brigade's Opera Shorts in 2010. Batzner's work was also part of several 60x60

60x60

60x60 is a collection of 60 electroacoustic or acousmatic works from 60 different composers/artists, each work 60 seconds or less in duration. 60x60 project showcases sixty new works, each sixty seconds or less, by sixty composers in a continuous sixty minute concert, for a one-hour cross-section...

 mixes including the Sanguine Mix, Order of Magnitude Mix, 2009 International Mix, Evolution Mix (part I), 2005 Midwest Mix.

Discography

• Quills and Jacks of Outrageous Fortune 60x60 2005 CD Vox Novus
• Sonance: New Music for Piano

External links

• Jay Batzner's Homepage
• http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/Jay_Batzner.htmBiography at Vox Novus
  Vox Novus
  Vox Novus is an organization promoting contemporary composers. Founded by Robert Voisey in 2000 This organization was created for the purposes of expanding the presence of contemporary music in the public's vision, empowering composers and contemporary musicians to create, produce, and promote...
  
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