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Education

• DM, Florida State University

• MM, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• PBC, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• BM, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Expertise

• Music Theory

• Aural Skills

• Composition

• Digital Music 

Biography

Ash Stemke 鈥溾��simply composes music he wants to hear, because it is beautiful鈥�and manages nonetheless to avoid the too-well-known and trite.鈥� (Steven Kruger, New York Arts). His music explores elements of symmetry (proportion, balance and self-similarity) and trajectory (teleology, argumentativeness and transformation). In 2020, his commissioned film score Launch Sequence (written in 2014 for Georges M茅li猫s鈥� "Le Voyage dans la Lune") will be sent on a literal trajectory 鈥� a 238,900-mile journey to the moon (!) 鈥� as part of Carnegie-Mellon University鈥檚 MoonArk project.

Dr. Stemke recently won first prize in the San Francisco Choral Artists鈥� New Voices Project and was honorably mentioned by the MidCities Chamber Singers and the Uproar Duo. His music has been performed by yMusic, the Boston New Music Initiative, the Semiosis Quartet, duo per se and the Tallis Chamber Orchestra, and has been featured at events such as New Music on the Bayou, NSEME, DIGITECH, the FSU Festival of New Music, numerous SCI conferences and the Schoenberg Academy in Vienna, Austria.

You can learn more at Dr. Stemke's