Bob Pritchard (composer)

Bob Pritchard (born 1956 in Calgary, Alberta) is a composer and teacher. His creative work includes experimental concert music, interactive music and video pieces, sound installations, direct synthesis, video/film, radiophonic works, and software development. His music is represented by AMP. Education Bob Pritchard received a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition and Theory from the University of British Columbia. He subsequently obtained the Master of Music degree from the University of Toronto, where he became active with the Structured Sound Synthesis Project in the U of T Computer Systems Research Group. In the late 1990s, Pritchard returned to UBC to complete his Doctor of Music degree in composition, with a specialty in computer applications. Career Pritchard has taught music at Brock University and Douglas College, and acoustics in the University of British Columbia Dept. of Physics, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Music. He is a researcher at the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC), and the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems (ICICS) He has received research funding through the