Kurt Stallmann

Kurt Stallmann (born 1964) is an American composer who lives and works in Houston, Texas. Education Kurt Stallmann was born in Rockford, Illinois. In 1987, he received a bachelor’s degree in music from Northern Illinois University. That year, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he composed, improvised, and collaborated with modern dance choreographers. In 1990, Yasuko Tokunaga invited Stallmann to join the Dance Division faculty at The Boston Conservatory to design a course for dancers that developed listening and analysis skills for the purpose of creating new choreography. In 1992, after several years of working with dance, he returned to a concentrated musical environment by entering the PhD program in music composition at Harvard University, where his primary teachers were Bernard Rands and Mario Davidovsky. As a student, he also assisted composer Ivan Tcherepnin with electronic music courses for several years. Teaching In 1999, after graduating, Stallmann joined the Harvard Music Department faculty, as Assistant Professor of Music. During this time, he combined the two studios then at Harvard (HEMS, created by Tcherepnin, and HCMC, created by Davidovsky) into one entity,