Arthur Gottschalk is Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he founded the electronic music studios (REMLabs) and chaired the department until 2010. Among others, he has won the First Prize of the VVX Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale (Corciano, Italy), and the 2017 Indianapolis Orchestra Composition Award. He was awarded a Bogliasco Fellowship for work in Italy, residencies at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, and was Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016. In 2018, he was a featured composer for the Thailand International Music Festival, awarded a residency at The MacDowell Colony, and was a featured composer at the 2019 China-ASEAN Music Festival.
His music is performed frequently, domestically and internationally, is published by a number of US and European companies, and is available on over 45 commercial recordings to date. His orchestral works have been performed by the symphony orchestras of London, Atlanta, Vienna, Bratislava, Moscow, Bangkok, Indianapolis, Houston, Fargo-Moorehead, Pacific, Charleston, New Jersey, Guangxi (China), Galicia (Spain), and St. Petersburg (Russia), among others. He has worked in diverse areas of music, including music for feature films and television, music publishing, studio recording and production, and as an expert in music copyright cases. His degrees are from The University of Michigan, where he was a student of William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett, with additional studies with Mario Davidovsky and Aaron Copland. At Rice University, he has been awarded the Meritorious Service Award from the Association of Rice Alumni, and the Presidential Award for Mentoring.