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Composers BureauJames MobberleyBiography James Mobberley (b. 1954) grew up in central Pennsylvania and spent his high school and college years in North Carolina. While earning a bachelor's degree in guitar he became interested in composition through his studies with composer Thomas Brosh. He received his masters in composition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied with Roger Hannay and earned his doctorate at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Donald Erb and Eugene O'Brien. He began teaching composition in 1981, with a year at the Cleveland Institute of Music then a year at Webster University in St. Louis. Dr. Mobberley joined the faculty of the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri Kansas City in 1983 and has recently been named Curators' Professor of Music. He also directs the Conservatory's Music Production And Computer Technology (M-Pact) Center. His position as the Kansas City Symphony's first Composer-in-Residence began in 1991. Thanks to a grant from Meet the Composer's New Residencies program this residency expanded from 1994-97. It included the State Ballet of Missouri and the Paseo Academy for the Performing and Visual Arts, the local arts magnet high school. He is currently serving as Composer-in-Residence for New Ear, Kansas City's Contemporary Music Ensemble. His fellowships, grants, and awards, include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize Fellowship, a Composer's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lee Ettelson Composers Award as well as awards from a variety of other sources. Mobberley's music spans many media: orchestral and chamber music, music for film, video, theater, dance, and music that combines electronic and computer elements with live performance. Twelve works in this last category have received over 200 performances in a dozen countries. Further Information
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