Thomas Wells

Area: Music Theory & Composition
Thomas Wells

Thomas Wells, professor, received his D.M.A. from The University of Texas at Austin; his major teachers were Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kent Kennan, and Hunter Johnson. He is a member of Duo Contemporain, viola and piano duo which specializes in the performance of contemporary music. His compositions have been performed by major orchestras in the U.S., and his computer music compositions have been performed internationally.

He has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Pennsylvania Arts Council, and the Texas Commission for the Arts, and was recipient of the 1990 Governor's Award for Outstanding Individual Artist in the State of Ohio. His reviews and articles have appeared in The Journal of Music Theory, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, and Computer Music Journal. He was co-chair of the 1984 American Society of University Composers Festival Conference and of the 1989 International Computer Music Conference. His music has been recorded on C.R.I., and his book, The Technique of Electronic Music, was published by Schirmer (Macmillan) in 1981.