Professor Dennis Kam:Composer-in-Residence for the South Florida Youth Symphony & conducts the Other Music Ensemble (group for the performance of new music) at the University of Miami. |
Dennis Kam has received many commissions, grants, and awards, including BMI and the Ford Foundation, which enabled him to serve as Professional (Composer)-in-Residence for Honolulu and the State of Hawaii under the auspices of the Ford Foundation/ MENC Contemporary Music Project during 1970-1972.
He currently serves as Composer-in-Residence for the South Florida Youth Symphony and conducts the Other Music Ensemble (group for the performance of new music) at the University of Miami.
Recent recordings of Prof. Kam's music include Miami Mix II performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, released on the TNC label, as well as two works performed by the Ibis Camerata, Trio and Sonata Ibis, one of five versions of single work (Albany recording).
Kam's works since the 1980s have represented a number and variety of interests:
During 1982-1987, he was music director/conductor of the Greater Miami Youth Symphony. Prof. Kam currently serves as National Board Member for Composition and just completed a term as President for the Southern Chapter of the College Music Society. He has also served as a member of both Executive and National Councils for the Society of Composers, Inc.
Dennis Kam, chairman of the Frost School's Music Theory and Composition department, has taught many of today's active composers. Originally from Hawaii, he was educated at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Mozarteum in Austria, East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, Toho Gakuen in Japan, and the University of Illinois. As a composer, he has received many commissions, grants, and awards, including BMI and as composer-in-residence for Honolulu and the State of Hawaii under the auspices of the Ford Foundation/MENC Contemporary Music Project. Since the 1980s, Kam's works have represented a variety of interests: new tonal or post-atonal possibilities. Recent projects include an exploration of multiple versions of single works. Kam has been published by Belwin-Mills, Kalmus, Media Press, and Smith Publications, and recorded on Capstone and Living Artist labels. He currently serves as composer-in-residence for the South Florida Youth Symphony and directs the Other Music Ensemble at the University of Miami. An active member of the College Music Society (CMS) and Society of Composers, Inc, he began a term as president of the Southern Chapter of CMS in 2005.
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