| Damon Lee, short bio’ 2004 Composer and media artist Damon Lee was born in 1975 in Lansing, Michigan. He is artist-in-residence from October 2004-2005 at the Kusthalle Krems, in Austria, and is an Artistic and Scientific co-worker at the University of Music Karlsruhe. He is also a 2005 artist-in-residence at ZKM, the centre for art and media technology, also in Germany. Since coming under the tutelage of composer Sandeep Bhagwati in 2002, Damon has been exploring other media, in particular video, to enhance and inform his music composition. Conversely, he has been experimenting with filmmaking, using form and treatment of time from the perspective of a composer, as basis for the realization of visual ideas. His first piece, “Quallen”, was a 2003 official selection in the VideoArt & Experimental Film category at the International Munich Film Festival. He was also invited as Filmmaker and Composer to the Berlin Film Festival’s second and third annual “Talent Campus 2004 (2005),” and received training in fields of commercial filmmaking such as film-scoring, cinematography, editing, and directing. Damon has also been active in concert music. In 2003, he was an assistant (transcriber) for his mentor Bhagwati and the Ensemble Modern in concert with musicians from Bombay, India, for a series featuring mixtures of improvisation and scored music. In April of last year, his piece, “li kulli schäi’in (2004)” was premiered in Egypt as part of a four-composer group whose orchestral/choral settings of Arabic texts were part of a cultural exchange between Stuttgart and Cairo. His “Breathe (also from 2004),” for Chamber Orchestra, was also premiered in June by the Badischer Staatskapelle in Karlsruhe, Germany. His current academic focus is on the film music of Toru Takemitsu. He received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council to undertake doctoral research on the subject, which he finished in 2002 in Tokyo, Japan. From 2002-03, he was a German Chancellor Scholar from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which enabled him to begin his work with Bhagwati. The state of Baden-Württemberg continued to support Damon in the form of a “Landesgraduiertenförderungspreise,” in recognition and support of his work in multi-media and electronic music. In addition to these, he has received other honours for his artistic and academic activities, including awards from ASCAP, the Society for New Music, Meet the Composer, the German Fulbright Commission, the German Foreign Exchange Service, and the City of Stuttgart, among others. Damon is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Cornell University, and the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. |
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