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Daria Semegen, Associate Professor;
Composition, Theory and Electronic Music Composition
Director of the Electronic Music Studio
M. Music Yale University, 1971
Email Daria Semegen at: Daria.Semegen[at]stonybrook.edu
Daria Semegen is a composer of instrumental, vocal and electronic music. As a recognized authority on electronic music composition, she has been the subject of many articles and several dissertations including A. E. Hinkle-Turner's doctoral dissertation "Daria Semegen: A Study of the Composer's Life", Work and Music (University of Illinois-Urbana). Semegen's writings on creative process, esthetics and pedagogy have been published in the U.S. and abroad. She studied at the Eastman School of Music, in mixed-media workshops at the Rochester Institute of Technology, at Yale and Columbia Universities and in Warsaw, Poland as a Fulbright fellow. She taught at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center from 1971-1975 and was a sound engineer at the Collection of World Music (Columbia University) working with field recordings of native musics from many continents. Her awards include six National Endowment for the Arts grants, two BMI awards, two awards from Yale University, a National Chamber Music Competition prize, an ISCM International Electronic Music Competition prize; fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Tanglewood and Chautauqua; a Pennsylvania Institute for the Arts & Humanistic Studies award; and the 1994 Alumni Achievement Award from Eastman School of Music. Prof. Semegen was the first woman awarded a McKim Commission from the Library of Congress. Recordings of her music include Rhapsody (for Yamaha MIDI grand piano), Electronic Composition No. 1; Arc (electronic/dance); Spectra, Music for Violin Solo; Jeux de Quatres.. Other works include Arabesque(electronic), Vignette (piano), Elegy-Caprice (toy piano- for J.Cage) , Epicycles (electronic/dance); Triptych (orchestra), Dans la Nuit (baritone & orchestra), Lieder (soprano & ensemble); virtuoso solo works including violin, contrabass and clarinet solos.During 1990-1999 Daria Semegen was commissions coordinator for the World Premieres Concert series presented by the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players (CCP) at Stony Brook and in New York City. She helped to establish the World Premieres Concert as an annual event in collaboration with the group's directors, distinguished performing artists Raymond DesRoches and Gilbert Kalish. She is author of the CCP Web pages.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
Member of the Promotion and Tenure Committee (PTC)
of the College of Arts & Sciences
Member, Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation (CAPRA)
Member, Computing and Communications Committee
Member, University Affairs/Advancement Committee
Interim-Chair, University Affairs/Advancement Committee
Member, University Affairs Committee
Member, Campus Environment
Member, Campus Environment & Student Life Committee
Member, President’s Task Force Committee on Student Life
Member, Focus Group on Undergraduate and Graduate Residential Life
Member, University and Residential Appeals Boards
Freshman/Sophomore Advisor
Department Representative to University Senate and Arts & Sciences Senate