Curriculum Vitae – Emeritus Professor, Dr. Jon Welstead, Peck School of the Arts – Department of MusicUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211
Formal education
1982 Ph.D. Composition/Theory, Electronic Music, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
l979 M.A., Composition/Theory, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
l976 B.A., Piano, Instrumental Music, K-12 Education, Magna Cum Laude, Dean’s Honors, Midland
University, Fremont, NB
Title of dissertation and master’s thesis
1982 Ph.D. Quintessence for Five Brass Instruments. Premiered l984, Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum Concert, Milwaukee, WI
l979 M.A., Phantasmagoria, chamber music for 13 players. Premiered Midwest Composers Festival,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, Revised with added movement and premiered l985,
UWM, Milwaukee New Music Festival.
Positions held
2006 – Chair, Department of Music, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1999 – Full Professor, Chair of Composition & Technology Area, Director of the Electro-Acoustic Music Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
1993 & 94 Guest Artist/Lecturer, Composer in Residence, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1990 Visiting Professor, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Neue Musik Stuttgarter, Stuttgart, Germany.
1987- 1998 Associate Professor, Chair of Composition/Theory Area, Director of the Electro-Acoustic
Music Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
l982-87 Assistant Professor of Composition/Theory, Director of the Electro-Acoustic Music Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
l980-82 Instructor, Composition, Director of Electronic Music Studios, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
l981-82 Ad Hoc Instructor, School of Broadcasting and Film, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1976-82 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Theory, Aural Skills, Counterpoint, Form and Analysis, Graduate Theory Review, Electronic Music, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Special honors, awards, and research grants
Special honors, awards
2017 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Length of Service Award, thirty-five years of teaching and
service at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2012 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Length of Service Award, April 2007, thirty years of teaching and
service at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
2008 EuCue Concert Series XXVII Festival/Symposium; October 8, 2008. Oscar Peterson Concert Hall. International Festival competition award, Concordia University in Montreal
2008 Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey, New Music Los Angeles International Festival competition award.
2007 James Van Allen: Flights of Discovery narrated by Tom Brokaw, film documentary, broadcast FOX Television, “Big Ten Network” Award of Excellence
2007 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Length of Service Award, April 2007 for twenty-five years of
teaching and service at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
2006 UW-Milwaukee, Authors and Publishers Ceremony, Publication “Clarion Sweets” for clarinets
2005 (Spring) Sabbatical Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
2005 Florida International Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, competition selection, Honorable Mention
2002-3 Selected to serve as state-wide Composition Contest and Awards Judge: Wisconsin Alliance of Composers (WAC), “Ear N’ Now” Composition Contest, Madison, Wisconsin.
2001 Provost Merit Award, Vice Chancellor and Provost, John Wanat, for faculty who have made substantial contributions for campus-wide goals.
2001 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University Committee Appointment to Chair the newly created ITPC (Information Technology Policy Committee) UW-Milwaukee.
2001 Selected as Music Selection Adjudicator and Curator for the 2002 SEAMUS (Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, held April 4 – 6, University of Iowa.
2001 Review and article in the International Computer Music Association Journal On-Line, http://www.computermusic.org/array.php?artid=53 CD reviews, September 11, 2001 by Chris Watts of The CD Ghost In The Machine, featuring live and computer inter-active compositions by Jon Welstead and Yehuda Yannay.
“The next two pieces, All In A Whisper and Waiting In Noncompliance: If We Want It So (Welstead) were the high points of the disc…Sometimes nightmarish and at other times unbelievably serene, this is one of the best live interactive pieces I have heard in years….Welstead’s Topochronos … is a song for tenor, harp, and electronics” ICMA Journal, 2001.
2000 Silver 2000 AXIEM Award for music composition at the AXIEM Documentary Film Festival (www.axiemawards.com) for documentary film, Sucker Punched.
1998 Presenter-panelist: “Studio Reports Panel”, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1998 Ronald E. McNair Award, Summer Research Internship Program, Graduate School, UWM.
1996 Guest composer, Civic Music Association of Milwaukee & Carroll College, Milwaukee, WI
1995 Guest composer, Civic Music Association of Milwaukee, 10th Annual Contemporary Music Concert, Milwaukee, WI
1994 Regional Award, Movies To Go Award , Iowa Motion Picture and Television Producers Film Board, music composition and audio production, Maurico Lasansky: Inside the Image. Documentary on this internationally renowned 20th century artist/print maker.
1994 Composer in Residence, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1993 Composer in Residence, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1993 Composer in Residence, Midland Lutheran College, Fremont, NB
1992 International Award, C.I.N.E. Golden Eagle (Council on International Non-Theatrical Events), music composition and audio production, United States entry in International Motion Picture Events, AIDS: The Barbara Fassbinder Story.
1992 Nomination, Chapter Patron for Delta Omicron-Delta Eta, Delta Omicron-International Music Fraternity.
1992-93 Sabbatical Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
1988 Opening Address/Keynote Speaker, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1988 Alumni Achievement Award, Midland Lutheran College, Fremont, NB
l985 National Competition, First Place Professional Performance Award, Emerald City Classic Performance Art Competition, Kansas City, KS. Collaborative dance project with Betty Salamun and the Dance Circus, composition, Matrix.
l984 Notable Book Award, Computers in Entertainment and the Arts by Gene Deweese. NSTA (National Science Teachers Association), Jon Welstead, contributing author.
l982 International Competition, Award of Excellence, Center for Theatre Arts, Holland Theatre Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, composition/sound design/multi-media presentation, “Camillo”.
l981 International Competition Award, INTERCOM Certificate of Quality for Music Composition, Chicago Film Festival, International Industrial Film & Videotape Festival, Chicago, IL, Morphological Analysis of Particulate Matter.
l980 National Competition Award, Award of Excellence, American College Theatre Festival XXII, John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. composition, Distilling Spirits.
l980 Regional Award, Best Original Play Production-Music, American College Theatre Festival, Fisher Theatre, Iowa State University, composition, Distilling Spirits.
l979 National Competition Award, Award of Excellence, American College Theatre Festival XXI, John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. composition for theatre, The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid.
1979 National Competition Award, Best Original Play Production-Music, American College Theatre Festival, Edison Theatre, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, composition for theatre, ‘The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid.”
1978 International Competition Award, C.I.N.E. Golden Eagle (Council on International Non-Theatrical Events), music composition and audio production, United States entry in International Motion Picture Events, By-Pass of Superior Vena Cava with Spiral Vein Graft.
1978 Chamber Music Category Award, Delius Association of Florida, Delius Composition Festival Jacksonville University College of Fine Arts, Jacksonville, FL, “From Landscapes From Parnasos.”
Juried composition competitions – international, national and regional
2008 EuCue Concert Series XXVII Festival/Symposium; October 8, 2008. Oscar Peterson Concert Hall. Concordia University in Montreal, eMotion, Jon Welstead for 8-channel computer audio diffusion.
2008 Los Angeles Sonci Odyssey, New Music Los Angeles internationally festival competition.
Jon Welstead – eMotion, multichannel playback, 2004
2005 Nationally juried invitation: 2005 Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference at Ball State University, “My Heart Sings- Silent”, computer generated 8- channel a audio diffusion composition.
2005 Internationally juried invitation: Mid-autumn Harvest Moon Festival/Symposium, 2005, University of Montreal -Concordia Campus. Quebec, Canada, “eMotion”, Real-time computer generated 8- channel audio diffusion composition.
2005 Internationally juried invitation; 15th Annual Florida Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, University of Florida’s Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, Gainesville, Florida, USA,. “My Heart Sings- Silent”, computer generated 8-channel audio diffusion composition.
2004 My Heart Sings – Silent, a computer generated 8-channel audio diffusion composition, International Juried selection, Harvest Moon Festival, Concordia University, Montreal Canada
2003 eMotion, computer generated 8-channel audio diffusion composition presented by invitation, Department of Music, Electro-Acoustic Music Concert, SUNY, (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
2002 eMotion, computer generated 8-channel audio diffusion composition. Nationally juried selection. Electronic Music Midwest Festival 2002 sponsored by Lewis University, the Conservatory of Music-University of Missouri at Kansas City and the Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, Kansas.
2002 eMotion, computer generated 8-channel audio diffusion composition. Internationally juried selection. SEAMUS (Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States) 2002 National conference, University of Iowa.
2002 eMotion, computer generated 8-channel audio diffusion composition. Nationally juried selection. New San Francisco Tape Music Center, Oakland, CA
1998 International Competition, as part of the series entitled The Sounds of Israel, Hochschule Der Kuenste, Berlin, Germany, composition, All in a Whisper.
1998 International Competition, Discoveries 97-98, New Electro-acoustic Compositions, Northern College, Hilton Place, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, composition, All in a Whisper.
1997 International Competition Award, Canadian International Electro-Acoustic Music Association Festival, “EuCuE”, Series XV. Concordia Concert Hall, Montreal, CANADA, All in a Whisper.
1997 International Competition Award, Sixth Annual Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festival, University of
Florida Center for Performing Arts, composition, All in a Whisper.
1997 Regional, Wisconsin Alliance for Composers State Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, composition, Waiting in Non-compliance: If We Want it So.
1996 Regional, Wisconsin Alliance for Composers State Conference, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, interactive computer/performer composition, Fo(u)r Percussionist(s).
1995 National Competition, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, composition, Topochronos from The Dream, for computer, harp and soprano, Mareen Chowning soloist
1993 National Competition, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, University of Texas-Austin, TX, composition, Fo(u)r Percussionist(s).
1992 National Competition, New Music Across America. Recorded by WNYC (NY) by National Public Radio, composition, Fo(u)r Percussionist(s).
1989 National Competition, New Music America in association, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, Merkin Hall, New York, NY, composition, In Between Us.
1988 National Competition, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, composition, Immutability: The Persistence of Memory.
1988 National Competition, SEAMUS-LA, Cal-Arts Institute, Valencia, CA, composition, Matrix II.
1987 National Competition, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) and Cal-Arts Contemporary Music Festival, Valencia, CA, composition, Visage, To Face, To See.
l987 National Competition, New Music Los Angeles Festival, composition, Immutability: The Persistence of Memory.
1980 International Competition, Bourge International Electronic Music Festival, Bourge, France, composition, Quantumpiece.
l979 Regional, American Society of University Composers Festival, Region V, University of Iowa chamber music for 13 players, composition, Phantasmagoria.
l978 National Competition, Chamber Music Category Award, Delius Composition Festival, University of Florida-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, composition, From Landscapes From Parnasos.
Research, foundation grants and commissions
2016 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Graduate School 2016 Grant – Award “Pilot Program for Acquisition and Development of Research Infrastructure” Award Received 2016: $58,00.00 for “Equipment Musical Interface Sensors and Audio Lab Computer and Media Capture Systems”
2011-12 $92,000.00, UW-Milwaukee Graduate School Research Innovations Award in support of acquisition an development of research infrastructure in Audio and Video, Musical Interface Sensing.
2007/8 $68,000, Research Graduate Initiative Award, for International Institute for Chamber Music, UWM
2005/6 $114,000, Research Graduate Initiative Award, for International Institute for Chamber Music, UWM
2004/05 $172,000 Peck School of the Arts LabMod award to rebuild computer music labs; Music 270 multi-station lab, Music B40, B50, B60 Computer Music Research labs. UWM
2003 AMP Project, International research workgroup coordinated through Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; establish Acoustic Mapping Protocol (AMP), curricular strategies and standards.
2002 Participant/researcher, developmental protocols and methods for multi-channel digital audio diffusion practices for live presentation of computer-electronic music composition. Investigative Studies on Sound Diffusion/Projection, University of Illinois: report explorative collaboration, http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/ems/articles/sound_projection.html
2000 Review/Article, Computer Music Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall 2000 by Camille Goudeseune of CD
“Ghost In The Machine”, live and computer inter-active compositions, Jon Welstead/Yehuda Yannay
2000 Review/Feature, “CD’s to Watch For, the Ghost In The Machine”the Electronic Music Foundation http://www.emf.org.
2000 Laboratory Modernization Grant, $13,000.00 for upgrade and remodeling of Computer Music Lab
2000 Laboratory Modernization Grant, $12,000.00 for design and installation of new multi-media facilities.
1998 $100,000 allocation by the Dean, School of the Arts, UWM. Renovation of the Electro-Acoustic Music Center, 22 station computer music lab and two advanced computer music studios, supporting the Music Composition and Technology Center.
1997 Education Technology Grant ($200,000), UWM. Collaborative proposal; Music, Film, Graphic Arts, design, installation of New Media Development Center for the School of the Arts.
1993 Meet the Composer Grant, Arts Midwest, Jon Welstead, Concert, Midland Lutheran College
1992 UWM Graduate School Foundation Grant, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, University of Texas-Austin, TX
1990 UWM Laboratory Modernization Program Grant ($201,500), University of Wisconsin System. Design and installation of multi-station micro-computer music facility and special research labs.
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Daniel Stein/Jon Welstead with Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, musical composition for original play Going Backwards Forwards. 1989 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Daniel Stein/Jon Welstead with Baltimore Theatre Project, Inc., musical composition for original play Windowspeak.
1989 Meet the Composer Grant, Arts Midwest, Jon Welstead, concert, University of Minnesota.
1989 Meet the Composer Grant, Texas Arts Board, Jon Welstead.
1989 UWM Graduate School Foundation Grant, presentation support for interactive computer performances, New Music America, Merkin Hall, New York, NY
1989 Meet the Composer Grant, Arts Midwest, “Milwaukee Sound Explorations” concert series, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, commission, The Baltimore Theatre Project, Windowspeak by Daniel Stein (Paris), Fred Curchack, director, Jon Welstead, music composition and sound design.
1988 Centre Culturel Georges Brassens and National Cultural Center Grant, France, Windowspeak by Daniel Stein, Fred Curchack, director, Jon Welstead, music composition and sound design.
1988 Meet the Composer Grant, Arts Midwest, Walkers Point Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, collaborative concert, Jon Welstead & Yehuda Yannay.
1988 Meet the Composer Grant, Wisconsin Public Radio, Madison, WI, “Sunday Afternoon Live” radio show, collaborative concert, Jon Welstead & Yehuda Yannay.
1988 Meet the Composer Grant, Texas Arts Board, Ft. Worth, TX
1988 Wisconsin Arts Board Grant, “Milwaukee Sound Explorations” concert series, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
1988 UWM Graduate School Foundation Grant, opening address, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
1987 UWM Graduate School Research Grant, co-proposal by Jon Welstead and Yehuda Yannay, for workshop “Micro Computers in Music. Applications of recent micro computer technology in sound synthesis and processing for musicians”, Summer Session.
l985-86 Tandy-Radio Shack Corporation Grant, “Creative uses of micro-computers”, hardware grant for sound synthesis and music systems.
l985 UWM Graduate School Research Grant, research proposal for NEA New Music Facility Grant. Proposal of UWM Fine Arts Five Year Computing plan.
1985 Commission, Diane Benjamin and the Milwaukee Museum of Art composition with Joel Thome, and Yehuda Yannay, Milwaukee, WI, Three Visions of the Age.
l985 Wisconsin Arts Board Grant, computer music for collaboration with Ms. Betty Salamun and the Dance Circus Dance Co., Milwaukee, WI, Matrix.
l984 UWM Special Programs Grant, new course development, Audio Recording Technology, Summer School.
l983 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, commission, computer music, with Mr. Daniel Stein, funding for subsequent international tour of United States, Canada, France and Italy, Inclined To Agree.
l982 Commission, Presidential Inauguration, Midland Lutheran College, Festive Anthem for choir, brass octet and percussion.
Publications and articles
2006 Publication on compilation CD of ten electro-acoustic music composers in the United States. Release and distribution, Spring 2007. CD Title “Clairaudience, New Music from Electronic Voice Phenomena” Bohn Media New Bedford, MA 02740
1998 The Ghost in the Machine, CD release, computer interactive compositions. Compositions by Jon Welstead and Yehuda Yannay with Steve Nelson-Raney. Published by EMF (Electronic Music Foundation) Records, Albany, NY
1992 “Free To Be … You And Me” by Marlo Thomas and Douglas Love. Rogers and Hammerstein/Williamson Music Company, stage play score rental, Jon Welstead, arranger, composer and music director, 1991.
1990 “The Sequencer: A Ready Tool for Orchestration”, The Music & Computer Educator magazine, Courseware-Teacher Training, June 1990.
1989 “Windowspeak”, American Theatre Magazine, the collaboration of Daniel Stein, Fred Curchack and Jon Welstead, June 1989.
1988 “Trends and Directions in Education for Musicians using Microcomputers in the Public Schools and Universities”, Milwaukee Journal, feature article, Sept. 1988.
1988 “Something New To Sing About”, Will Schmid, Editor. Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation & Glencoe Publishing Company, Jon Welstead, recording engineer and producer, six volume audio cassette series.
l984 “Singing Computers and other Oddities”, Jon Welstead in Computers in Entertainment and the Arts, by Gene Deweese. New York/London: Franklin Watts, 1984, pp. 50-65.
l984 “As You Like It” and “Richard III”, theatrical composition, Shakespeare Music Catalogue, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, music related to Shakespeare’s life and work, five-volumes. Oxford University Press, 1984.
l980 “Notes from the Composer, The Role and Interface of Instrumental and Electronic Music in the Theatre,” Hancher Circle News, University of Iowa Press, Vol. III, No. 1, Fall l980.
l979 “The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid”, by Lee Blessing, New York: Samuel French Publishing Co, Premiere original composition available with rental, 1979.
Professional presentations, papers, panels
2002 Investigative Studies on Sound Diffusion/Projection, University of Illinois: a report on an explorative collaboration, Research and developmental protocols and methods for multi-channel digital audio diffusion practices for live presentation of computer-electronic music composition. http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/ems/articles/sound_projection.html
1998 Presenter-panelist: “Studio Reports Panel”, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
1995 Panel chair: “From Mexican Indian Instruments to Computer Music: A Composer’s Journey at the Eve of the 21st Century”, Latin American Music Now, School of the Arts and the Center for Latin American Studies, UWM.
1993 Lecture: “The Transformation of Art and Technology: The Liberation and/or Democratization of Fine
Arts”, Cultural Diversity in Music in the United States, Midland Lutheran College and University of Nebraska at Omaha.
1991 Panel chair-presenter: “Control Mechanisms for Interactive Real-time Performance”, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, University of Illinois.
1990 Lecture-demonstration: “The Transformation of Art and Technology: The Liberation and/or Democratization of Fine Arts”, UW-Center System Waukesha County, Music Department
1989 Opening address: “The Transformation of Art and Technology: The Liberation and/or Democratization of Fine Arts”, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
l988 Lecture-demonstration: “Computer Art – Computer Music”, Milwaukee Artists Forum, Wisconsin Sculptures and Painters Association, Milwaukee Museum of Art.
l987 Presenter-panelist: “Technology and Art; Liberation, Democratization”, Training of the Artist for the 21st Century, Wisconsin Teaching Improvement Council, UW-Oshkosh.
l987 Presenter-panelist: “The Technological Transformation of Culture, Art and Technology”, National Educational Theatre Conference, New York University.
l986 Panelist-respondent: “The Shaping of Contemporary Musical Taste”, International Symposium on Music and Society, UWM.
l985 Lecture-concert: “Computers in Music and the Transformation of Art”, Arts and Performance Series, University of Texas-Dallas.
l983 Lecture-demonstration: “Computer Generated Sound Synthesis and Systems”, Computer Montage Symposium, Computing Services Division, UWM.