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Daniel Weymouth

Daniel Weymouth is an American composer, conductor, and music educator, an associate professor in composition/music theory and the director of [b]cDACT[/b] (Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology) at [l=Stony Brook University]. He has been writing for a wide array of ensembles, from traditional orchestra to computer interactive instruments. In 1981, Weymouth received a B.M. degree and graduated with honors from the Michigan State University in East Lansing after studying with [a=Herbert Owen Reed] and [a=Charles Ruggiero]. Daniel continued his training at the [l=University of California, Berkeley] under [a=Andrew Imbrie], [a=Olly Wilson], and Richard Feliciano, earning M.A. (1984) and Ph.D. (92) degrees in composition. After finishing the Master's program at UC Berkeley, Daniel Weymouth spent a few years in the mid-eighties in Paris, taking a course in probability theory and music from [a=Iannis Xenakis] and working as a freelancer at [l=Ircam] and [b]CEMAMu[/b]. He also attended a computer music workshop at Stanford's [l=Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics] in the summer of 1983.