Dylan Findley
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Music Theory, and Composition
Phone: 330-263-1941
Office: Scheide 218
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Degrees
- Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Dylan Findley鈥檚 music compositions explore and express intangible truths through the聽convergence of heart, mind, spirit, and body without disregarding the power of irony and聽dry wit. His career has led him to commissioned collaborative projects premiered on聽three continents by top new music performers. As a clarinetist, he has performed and聽improvised music across the US and in Medell铆n, Colombia, and he leads an on-聽campus improvisation group.
Dylan has received commissions from the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, the聽Barlow Endowment, the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, S茫o Paulo Contemporary聽Composers Festival Orchestral Commissioning Project, New American Voices, the
American Guild of Organists Student Commissioning Project. His works have been聽featured on at festival in Italy, Brazil, Colombia, and across the United States by groups聽including newEar, the McCormick Percussion Group, Gal谩n Trio, Transient Canvas,聽members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Ensemble Mise-En,Quarteto L鈥橝rianna,聽Mnemosyne Quartet, Great Noise Ensemble, PULSE Trio, Frost Symphony Orchestra,聽and Brigham Young University鈥檚 Wind Symphony. He received his Doctor of Musical聽Arts at University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Alex Nathanson (currently working on video game soundtrack)
Robert Stark:聽Missing Indigo聽(濒颈苍办:听)
Imzadia Conrad (made a jazz-inspired portfolio of original compositions)
Figurings聽for percussion quartet and clarinet (October 2023)
Premiered by the McCormick Percussion Group with Calvin Falwell at the University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL.
Cosmic Cliffs聽for piano, live electronics and interactive video (May 2023)
Premiered by Ting Luo at Old First Concerts in San Francisco, CA
脕苍颈尘辞听for piano trio. (November 2022)
Premiered by Gal谩n Trio as part of their Midwest Kinesis Tour in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. To be released on their forthcoming聽Kinesis II聽album in 2024.
颈2颈听(July 2021)
Premiered by Nathan Mensink and Russ Zokaites at the 2021 International Trombone Festival at Columbus State University in Columbus, GA.
The Story of Our Journey聽(October 2020)
Premiered by Csaba Jevtic-Somlai virtually in 2020 and live in October 2021 at Their Story is Our Story’s Lecture Series at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. The audio and video footage central to the work was used in partnership with international refugee advocacy organization Their Story is Our Story.
2022 Keynote Speaker for the VI Seminario Internacional de Investigaci贸n en Pr谩cticas Art铆sticas at the Tecnol贸gico de Artes D茅bora Arango Instituci贸n Redefinida.
2020 Grant Commission from the Barlow Endowment Fund.
2020 IN FLUX Cycle 9 Project Commision Grant from the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.