Howard Sandroff’s concert works, written for soloists, mixed chamber
ensembles and orchestra, often include live or pre-recorded electronics and
have been performed, recorded and broadcast throughout North, South and Central
America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Sandroff’s compositions have been heard at
numerous contemporary music festivals including New Music America, the Society
of Composers, the Aspen Music Festival, New Music Chicago, the International
Computer Music Conference, the International Society of Electronic Arts,
the Smithsonian Institute, the World Saxophone Congress
in Japan and France, the International Clarinet Society in Quebec and Paris,
Vermont New Music Ensemble, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series,
the Musik Factory in Bergen and the Ultima Festival in Oslo, Norway and many
others.

In June 1996, Sandroff was invited by Maestro Pierre Boulez to attend the
dedication of the new I.R.C.A.M. facilities at the Georges Pompidou Center in
Paris where Alain Damiens, soloist with the Ensemble Intercontemporain,
performed Sandroff’s 1990 composition, Tephillah: for clarinet and computer.
In October 1999, he was featured composer at the Ultima Festival in Oslo,
Norway and was the subject of a 90 minute broadcast on WNIB Radio Chicago in
honor of his 50th birthday. On March 22, 2000, the Chicago
Pro Musica performed a retrospective of Sandroff’s chamber works at
Chicago’s Symphony Center celebrating the composer’s 50th birthday.

Among Sandroff’s most recent works are: The Bride’s Complaint,
commissioned by soprano Susan Charles and recorded for a 2000 release from the
Electronic Music Foundation, Concerto for Electronic Wind Instruments and
Strings, commissioned by saxophonist Frederick Hemke, received its premiere
with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Tephillah for Clarinet and Computer
Controlled Signal Processors was commissioned by Yamaha Corporation of America
for Chicago Symphony clarinetist, John Bruce Yeh. Yeh has rec
orded the work for Koch International Classics (KOCH3-7088-2 H1), released
December 1997. Tephillah has also been recorded by Alain Damiens, principal
clarinetist of the Ensemble Intercontemporaign and released in July 99 on
Virgin Classics’ "American Clarinet" (VC 5 45351 2). Eulogy for solo
saxophone was commissioned by the Japan Saxophonist Association is published by
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris and was recorded by Saxophonist Paul Bro for a
November 98 release from Arizona University Recordings (Aur CD 30630). Chorale for Saxophone Quartet
was commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Saxophone Quartet in May 1994 and
the musical score to "A Child’s Journey Through Auschwitz", a documentary film
by Michael Rabiger was completed and recorded in June 1995. La Joie for
clarinet trio, commissioned and premiered in Paris by Chicago Symphony
clarinetists John Bruce Yeh and Larry Combs and Depaul University School of
Music clarinet professor, Julie De Roche in July 1996, was released by Helicon
Records (HE 1028) in August 98. Chant de femmes for
flutes and electronic sounds, was commissioned and premiered by flautist Mary
Stolper in 1996 and is scheduled for release on Compact Disc by the Electronic
Music Foundation. Shevet achim gam yachad for seven instruments was premiered
by the Chicago Pro Music at Chicago’s Symphony Center in March 2000. Two of
his piano works, Adagio (1984) and "...there is a decided lack of enthusiasm at
my end of the leash." (1981) for two pianos and electronic sound are available on
Centaur Records (CRC 2082).

In addition to his work as a composer, conductor, technical consultant and
author, Sandroff specializes in the live performance of computer/electronic
music and has realized, programmed or performed works by Alvin Lucier, Edwin
London, Robert Lombardo, Steve Reich, Barney Childs, Matthew Malsky, Easly
Blackwood, Morton Subotnik and Pierre Boulez and with CSO clarinetist John
Bruce Yeh, is a member of the performing duo Double Dialogue.

An acknowledged expert in analog and computer-based electronic music and audio
systems, Sandroff regularly tours, performs lectures and consults on the design
of academic and commercial electronic music systems. He has been guest
composer at The Julliard School, Stanford University, Northwestern University,
the Manhattan School of Music, the Capital Area Composers Consortium, Catholic
University of America, Bennington College, State University of New York in
Albany, Rennsilear Polytechnic Institute, Bowling Green State University,
Queens College of the City University of New York,
Catholic University, University of Texas, Princeton University, Kunitachi
College of Music, Japan Saxophonist Association, the Grand Rapids Michigan
Chamber Music Society, Marian College, the Institut de Recherche’ et
Coordination Acoustique/Musique (I.R.C.A.M.), the Oberlin Conservatory of
Music, The University of Oklahoma and the Aspen Music Festival. He has
appeared as guest artist with the Santa Fe Opera, the
Chicago Symphony Chamber Series, the Ojai Festival, I.S.C.M.
Boston, the Grand Rapids Chamber Music Society and many others. His published
articles on musical and technical topics have appeared in a variety of
publications including the International Computer Music Conference Proceedings,
New Ways: In Music Education and Electronic Musician Magazine.

Howard Sandroff is currently Director of the Computer Music Studio and
Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Chicago and Professor of Sound
Art with the Sound Department of Columbia College. He is formerly Music
Director and Conductor of Chicago’s New Art Ensemble. A Chicago native, Howard
Sandroff received the Master of Music degree with Honors in Composition from
the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and completed advanced
studies in computer music and audio systems at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. His composition teachers have included Robert
Lombardo and Ben Johnston. He has received composition fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Athena Foundation, the Illinois Arts
Council, and research grants from Columbia College, Chicago Artists Abroad, The
University of Chicago, the Yamaha Music Foundation and others.