Timothy Kramer

Timothy Kramer (born 1959) is an American composer whose music has earned him a Fulbright Scholarship, an National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Currently Professor Emeritus at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois, he served as the Edward Capps Professor of Humanities at Illinois College, and also served on the faculty of Trinity University (San Antonio) as Professor of Music, and is a founding member of the Composers Alliance of San Antonio. Career Kramer was trained as a composer and organist at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, Washington studying with David Robbins (composition) and David P. Dahl (organ). He also played electric bass and jazz piano in addition to his compositional studies. He earned his master’s degree and doctorate at the University of Michigan, where his primary composition teachers were William Albright, Leslie Bassett, William Bolcom and George Wilson. He studied organ with James Kibbie and harpsichord with Edward Parmentier. As a Fulbright Scholar he studied with Martin Redel at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold, in Germany from 1988 to 1989. Early in his career he taught at Indiana State University, Rose Hulman