Aspen Composers' Conference

1999

Cáceres, German (El Salvador),"Contemporary Music from El Salvador"

Pellerite, James (USA),"Native American Flute Meets Classical"

Walker, Robert (USA), "About Inventions"

Yeagley, David (USA), "A New Theory of Tonal Organization and Harmony"

Synhaivsky, Natalie (USA), "Literary Symbolism in Janácek's Second String Quartet"

2000

Madlener, Jörg (Belgium), "Pierre Boulez, Vision and Pragmatism: The Exact Engagement"

Pellerite, James (USA), "Playing the Flute of Many Languages"

Walker, Robert (USA), "Fugue for Piano"

Yeagley, David (USA), "The New Tonality II"

Synhaivsky, Natalie (USA), "Guillaume de Machaut/ Le livre dou Voir Dit (1362-65)"

2001

Clearfield, Andrea (USA), "Women of Valor"

Cody, Judith (USA), "Composing: Creative Explosions in Youth and Old Age"

Everett, Steve (USA), "The Value of Music in the Digital Age"

Iznaola, Ricardo (USA), "Tiempo Muerto: Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Nationalism"

Pellerite, James (USA), "The Native American Flute in Contemporary ChamberMusic"

Rudy, Paul (USA), "Metaphoric Transmutations from a Paradoxical Instrument, or,

                    What is a Cactus doing in our Concert Hall?"

White, John (USA), "Composing Choral Music"

Synhaivsky, Natalie (USA), "Peter Dronke and the Medieval Lyric"

2002

Diehl, Paula (USA), "Separation Theory Concerns Interlocking Fourths which Gradually Separate from Each Other as the Music Unfolds"

Fitts, Charles (USA), "Influence of Scientific Discovery on Musical Structures and Styles"

Ruo, Huang (China), "New Music from China (1976-present)"

Synhaivsky, Natalie (USA), "Franz Liszt, Marie d'Agoult, George Sand and the Aesthetic of Emotion"

Walker, Robert (USA), "Todd Gabriel: String Quartet #2, A Study in Momentum"

                       "Robert Walker: Concerto for Native American Flute"
2003

Bayolo, Armando (USA), “Towards Golgotha”

Boyadjian, Hayg (USA), “The Role of the Composer in Different Cultures”

                              “Composing ‘Sevan’ for the Native American Flute”

Diehl, Paula (USA), “Separation Music: Varieties of Improvisation”

Golembiowski, Jaroslaw (USA), “The Piano Music of Jaroslaw Golembiowski”

Mauldin, Michael (USA), “ ‘Dreams of the Child of Light’ for Native American Flute and String Orchestra”

Walcott, Penelope (Canada), “Zen and the Art of Making Music: The Piano Music of Alexina Louie”

Synhaivsky, Natalie (USA), “Mozart and Catullus”

Walker, Robert (USA), “Two New Works for Piano: ‘Fugue No.2’, ‘Albumblatt’”

2004

Kennedy, John M (USA), “Classical Guitar in Modern Music: Crumb’s ‘Mundus canis,’ Bassett’s ‘Temperaments,’ and Kennedy’s ‘Aurora’”

Pieslak, Jonathan (USA), “Conditions of Music Composition: The Crisis of Self-Identity”

Wickman, Ethan (USA), “Cultural Reconstruction and the Crisis of Conquest: Plotting the Parallels of Vanguardia, Democracy, and Nationalism in Spain’s Generation of ‘51”

Synhaivsky, Natalie (USA), “William Schuman’s ‘Republic’”

Walker, Robert (USA), “Two Norwegian Moderns: Harald Saeverud and Fartein Valen”

2005

Hanna, Trent (USA), “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra”

Marlow, Eugene (USA), “Jazz in China”

White, John (USA), “The Canonical Hours”

Willis, Mickie (USA), “The Flattening Historical Perspective Caused by the Advent of Sound Recording: A Unique Twentieth-Century Phenomenon”

Synhaivsky, Natalie (USA), “Time and Meter in Latin Elegiac Poetry”

2006

Christiansen, Larry (USA), “Composing an Opera”

Fine, Marshall (USA), “The Future of Sonata Form”

Lucania, John (USA), “My Life as an Artist: ‘Mass without Words #4’ for Brass Quintet” (taped presentation)

Walker, Robert (USA), “Apropos Voluntaries”

Synhaivsky, Natalie (USA), “ ‘Syringa’ by Elliott Carter, Part I: The Text”

2007

Dangerfield, Joseph (USA), “Influence: The Real Anxiety”

Decker, Brad (USA), “Preserving the Fragment: The Late Chamber Music of Franco Donatoni”

Fuller, Karen (USA), “The Creative Spark Behind the Composer: Fredrick Kaufman”

Gabriel, Todd (USA), “Creating a Personal Tonal Language: An Analysis of My Piano Sonata, Dysfunctional Harmony”

Golembiowski, Jaroslaw (USA), “Utilizing Elements of Polish Folk Music in Compositions of Jaroslaw Golembiowski and Other Polish School Composers”

Kershner, Brian (USA), “Musical Collaboration with Walt Whitman – About Leaves of Grass”

Malloy, Chris (USA), “Bending Time: A Method of Composing Foreground, Middleground, and Background Durations”

Marlow, Eugene (USA), “Jazz in China, Part II”

Rentowski, Wieslaw (USA), “Organ and Piano Music of W. V. Rentowski”

Richardson, Dana (USA), “Syntonality in Dana Richardson’s Andante Amoroso”

Romig, James (USA), “Nests of Proportion, Webs of Reference: Thoughts on my Piano Sonata”

Smith, Andrew (USA), “Vitesse for Solo Guitar”

Tamar, Eli (USA), “Polystylism and Transformation of Style in Alfred Schnittke’s Viola Concerto”

Vollinger, William (USA), “What to Say and How to Say It: Finding My Own Voice in Composition”

Wanna, Steve (USA), “Tracing the Moment”

Walker, Robert (USA), “Fartein Valen’s Fugal Alembic”

2008

Brown, Timothy (USA), "Art Songs: Writing for the Voice"

Elerding, Carolyn (USA), "Applying Cognitive Process Theory to Music Composition"

Fong, Adam (USA), "Link Study 3"

Gabriel, Todd (USA), "The Principle of Causation: Tools of Engagement in the Music of Todd Gabriel"

Marlow, Eugene (USA), "Two Conventions: One a Microcosm of the Other"

Rentowski, Wieslaw (USA), "Music for String Instruments by W. V. Rentowski"

Smith, Andrew (USA), "The Machine"

Tamar, Eli (USA), "Musical Exploration of Riner Maria Rilke"

White, John (USA), "The Divine Image"

10th Anniversary Recital

Diehl, Paula, "Phases"

Kershner, Brian, "Aftermath"

Richardson, Dana, "Fur Hannah"

Smith, Andrew, "Vitesse"

Synhaivsky, Natalie, Preludes and Fugues of Dmitri Shostakovich