Michael K. Slayton
Michael K. Slayton
Michael K. Slayton is an American composer and educator, currently serving as
Associate Professor and Chair of Composition and Theory, and Associate Dean for
Faculty Affairs at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.
Slayton has composed works in a cross-section of musical genres, with specific emphasis on chamber music. His continuing dedication to the value of artistic exchange has afforded him opportunity to write for distinguished performers all over the world. His music, published by ACA, Inc. (BMI), is regularly programmed in the U.S. and abroad,
including Chemnitz, Seitz, Leipzig, Droyssig, and Weimar, Germany; Graz, Austria; Paris,Tours, and Marquette-lez-Lille, France; Kristiansund, Norway; Aviero, Portugal; Brussles, Belgium; Johannesburg and Potchefstroom, South Africa; London, UK; and New York, NY.
Recorded by The Kreutzer Quartet (London, UK) Feat. Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin; Mihailo Trandafilovski, violin; Clifton Harrison, viola; Neil Heyde, cello
Recorded by The Kreutzer Quartet (London, UK) Feat. Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin; Mihailo Trandafilovski, violin; Clifton Harrison, viola; Neil Heyde, cello
Recorded by Yarn/Wire (New York, NY) Feat. Laura Barger and Ning Yu, piano; Ian Antonio and Russell Greenburg, percussion
I. Alba
II. And the Days Are Not Full Enough
III. A Girl
Recorded by the Vanderbilt Chorale; Tucker Biddlecombe, director
Recorded by the Atlantic Ensemble (Nashville, TN; Paris, France) Feat. Wei Tsun Chang, violin; Seanad Dunigan Chang, viola; Kirsten Cassel Greer, cello; Jennifer McGuire, piano
Blair School of Music
Michael is currently serving as Associate Professor and Chair of Composition and Theory, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.
The Blair School of Music, located in Nashville, Tennessee, provides a conservatory-caliber undergraduate education in music performance, composition, or integrated music studies within a top 20 research university.
“…offers a rare glimpse into the styles and attitudes of gifted women and their work.”
Pan Pipes
“…extensive and exciting materials on significant American composers…”
Choice
“…a fascinating, important source of information for historians and theorists, students and teachers, general audiences, and specialists.”
Journal of the IAWM
“…a worthwhile and informative anthology…highly recommended.”
R. James Tobin, Classical.net
“…an admirable and impressive diversity of experience and approach, of perseverance and serendipity, of innovation and inspired musical juxtapositions.”
Notes
In Women of Influence in Contemporary Music: Nine American Composers, Michael K. Slayton has collected essays that focus on women who have made significant contributions to American music.
“…offers a rare glimpse into the styles and attitudes of gifted women and their work.”
Pan Pipes
“…extensive and exciting materials on significant American composers…”
Choice
“…a fascinating, important source of information for historians and theorists, students and teachers, general audiences, and specialists.”
Journal of the IAWM
“…a worthwhile and informative anthology…highly recommended.”
R. James Tobin, Classical.net
“…an admirable and impressive diversity of experience and approach, of perseverance and serendipity, of innovation and inspired musical juxtapositions.”
Notes
In Women of Influence in Contemporary Music: Nine American Composers, Michael K. Slayton has collected essays that focus on women who have made significant contributions to American music.
