Christopher Cook (born 1962 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American composer of contemporary classical music.
Cook received the Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University where he served as assistant director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music. He has received awards and honors from the Fromm Music FoundationFromm Guide Fromm Music Foundation, Harvard University at Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Arts,Arts Corps: The First Three Years, published by the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC 1994, OCLC: 50711000 ASCAP, MTNA, and the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies. He has been composer-in residence for Amherst College, the University of Evansville, Monroe County Community Schools Corporation Students learning to love music from working composer by Kathleen Mills, Herald Times, Bloomington, Indiana, March 27, 1994 (Indiana) and for the city of Somerset, Pennsylvania. He is Director of Music Theory and Composition at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
His compositions are widely performed in university and festival settings, including June in Buffalo, Music of Our Time, the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, The Society of Composers Inc., the Annual American Music Week (Sofia, Bulgaria), and the Utrecht Music Festival (The Netherlands). His Electro-acoustic worksReviews of works, Computer Music Journal, MIT Press, Fall 2002, Vol. 26, No. 3, Pages 6-10, Fall 2004, Vol. 28, No. 3, Pages 6-11 have been presented at conferences and festivals including the International Computer Music Conference,International Computer Music Conference Society for Electro-acoustic Music in the United States, Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, and the InterMedia Manifold TechArt exhibit.
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External links Christopher Cook website