ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK
Professor of Composition and Theory
Chair - Composition and Theory

B. Mus. (1974), M..A. (1975) D.M.A. (1978) University of Michigan. 1606 Alice Pratt Brown Hall 713-348-2567 gottsch@rice.edu

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~gottsch/functional/BioPage.html

ARTHUR GOTTSCHALK was born in San Diego, California, but raised in the Northeast. He attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, receiving a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition, a Master of Arts degree in Music Composition and English Literature, and his Doctorate in Music Composition, studying with William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett. He is currently a Professor at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he is Chair of the Department of Music Theory and Composition, and where he directed the university’s electronic and computer music laboratories until 2002. In 1986 he co-founded Modern Music Ventures, Inc., a company which held a recording studio complex, a record production division, four publishing firms, and an artist management division, and for whom he produced records for PolyGram and Capitol. In 1998 Gottschalk divested himself of these latter holdings, in order that he might devote himself more fully to music composition.

Gottschalk's teaching specialties include electronic music, music theory, music composition, and counterpoint. He is responsible for teaching occasional eight-week CLE seminars on music business and law, and is in demand as a lecturer on music and technology, music in film, and music business and law. As a film and television composer he numbers six feature films, twelve television scores, and numerous industrial films and commercials among his credits. Among other awards, he is a recipient of the Charles Ives Prize of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, annual ASCAP Awards since 1980, and has been a Composer-in-Residence at the famed Columbia/Princeton Electronic Music Center and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He was recently honored by the Society for New Music with its Auchincloss Prize. With well over one hundred compositions in his catalog, his music is performed regularly in Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia, is recorded on Crystal, Summit, Capstone, Golden Crest, and AURecordings, and is published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, Spectrum Press, and Ballerbach Music (ASCAP). His book, Functional Hearing, is published by Scarecrow Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield.