Michael Betz
Composer
| Years at Source: | 2015 |
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| Biography: | Michael Betz (b. 1992) is a composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from Mason City, IA, currently based in the Twin Cites, MN. He teaches piano, violin, and guitar lessons through the Minnetonka Music Academy. Betz is a recipient of the Jerome Foundation for New Music grant, and his orchestral work Enclosure was awarded Honorable Mention in the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. Three of his chamber works have received finalist designation in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. He has also received recognition in calls for scores from the Solo and Chamber Timpanist’s Initiative and Symphony Number One. Betz holds a B.M. in Theory and Composition from St. Olaf College (2015), where he studied with Timothy Mahr and Justin Merritt. In July 2013, Betz traveled to Paris to take part in the EAMA-Nadia Boulanger Summer Institute, where he studied composition with David Conte. He is a member of ASCAP. |
| Website: | www.michaelbetzmusic.com |
| Source Moment: | My participation in SSF was fortuitous in that the duo that was assigned to perform my song cycle at the festival went on to perform it several more times in the Twin Cities the following year. Aside from this direct effect on my career, I fondly remember the intense and information-saturated nature of the festival. |