222 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

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email: lippe@buffalo.edu

Biography

Cort Lippe has been active in the field of interactive computer music for more than 20 years. He studied composition with Larry Austin in the USA; spent a year in Italy, studying Renaissance music; and three years in The Netherlands, at the Instituut voor Sonologie working with G.M. Koenig and Paul Berg in the fields of computer and formalized music. He also lived for eleven years in France, where he spent three years at the Centre d'Etudes de Mathematique et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu), directed by I. Xenakis, while followed Xenakis' course on formalized music at the University of Paris; and he worked for eight years at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), founded by P. Boulez, where he developed real-time musical applications and gave courses on new technology in composition. He has followed composition and analysis seminars with various composers including: Boulez, Donatoni, K. Huber, Messiaen, Penderecki, Stockhausen, and Xenakis, and has written for most major ensemble formations. His works have received numerous international composition prizes, including: the Irino Prize (Japan), first prizes at Bourges (France), the El Callejon Del Ruido Competition (Mexico), the Leonie Rothschild Competition (USA), as well as prizes and honorable mentions in the Music Today Competition (Japan), the Prix Ars Electronica 1993 and 1995 (Austria), the Newcomp Competition (USA), and the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards (USA). His music has been premiered at major festivals worldwide, and is recorded by ADDA, ALM, Apollon, CBS-Sony, Centaur, EMF, Harmonia Mundi, Hungaroton Classic, ICMC, MIT Press, Neuma and SEAMUS. Presently, he is an associate professor of composition and director of the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios of the University at Buffalo, New York.

A complete curriculum vitae may be found here.