Assistant Professor of Music (Composition and Music Technology)
His music has received recognition in a number of international competitions, including the 2000 and 2003 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges; a special award for composition by a young composer at the 2003 International Electro-acoustic Music Composition Competition Musica Nova in Prague; and a first prize at the 2002 commission competition of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States. His work was also selected for publication to the International Computer Music Conference CD in 2003, which recognizes the most competitive international works submitted to ICMC as voted on by a jury panel. Additionally, he has received multiple grants and stipends for advanced research - most notably, a Junior Faculty Research Award from the Research Council of the University of Oklahoma, a Presidential Fellow Research fund and a dissertation fellowship from the Graduate School of University at Buffalo. He has been invited to lecture about his work in such academic institutions as the Northwestern University, the University of North Texas at Denton, and the College of the Holy Cross, and has conducted workshops on Max/MSP at the University of Athens and Ionian University in Greece. Recordings of his music are released by the SEAMUS CD series, ICMA 2003, Ionian University, Musica Nova, and broadcast by the artofthestates.org Part of Dr. Karathanasis’ contributions to the School of Music at OU include the complete reformation of the Music Technology curriculum, which now consists of eight upper level courses for undergraduates (the most comprehensive program in Oklahoma State), with particular emphasis in composition and experimentation. A strong advocate of electroacoustic music, he has organized a series of concerts under the title “inner sOUndscapes”, aiming to initiate the local community to this genre through the works of seminal composers, guest artists, and the students of the Music Technology program at OU. Prior to joining OU, Dr. Karathanasis, served as visiting assistant professor at Hartwick College in New York where he taught music theory, music technology and composition. He also taught the undergraduate music technology curriculum at the University of Buffalo. Karathanasis earned his doctoral degree in music composition as a presidential fellow in 2006 at the University of Buffalo, under the guidance of Cort Lippe and David Felder. He received his bachelor's of music degree with emphasis in music technology and composition in 1999 from Ionian University in Corfu, Greece. Additionally he holds piano and harmony diplomas from the National Conservatory of Athens, Greece. BM—Technology & Composition, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece |
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Dr. Konstantinos Karathanasis, assistant professor of composition and music technology at the University of Oklahoma School of Music, is an emerging composer and music technology specialist. He draws inspiration for his compositions from various sources: the poetry of Rumi and Pablo Neruda; the cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky and Krzysztof Kieslowski; Mysticism, Eastern philosophy, and the depth psychology of Carl Jung. His electroacoustic compositions have been performed throughout the world at such festivals as the International Computer Music Conferences in Singapore, Miami, Barcelona, and Copenhagen; the International Electronic Music Festival SYNTHESE in Bourges; the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik in Witten, Germany; the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival in Gainesville; in several annual conferences of the Society for the ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States; the Bienal Internacional de Musica Electroacustica in Sao Paolo; the Seoul International Computer Music Festival; the Australasian Computer Music Conference; and in numerous juried electroacoustic music concerts worldwide.