Dr. Jim Piekarski
Associate Professor
Commercial Songwriting
Audio For Media
Principles and Practices of Electronic Music
Electronic Music II
History of Popular Music in America
Advanced Commercial Songwriting
Office: Comm 207
Phone: 615.898.2635
Email: jimp@mtsu.edu
Jim Piekarski, associate professor, received
his B.F.A.degrees in music composition and music education from
the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He earned his M.M. and
D.M.A. degrees from the University of North Texas. While at the
University of North Texas, Jim taught various courses in the electro-acoustic
and computer music curriculum including MIDI applications, algorithmic
composition, and software synthesis.
Jim's computer music compositions have been
featured on Volume 9 of the CDCM Computer Music series CDs, and
his works have been performed in the United States, Mexico, and
Europe. He recently presented work involving speech resynthesis
at the International Computer Music Conference in Aarhaus, Denmark.
His concert reviews have been published in Array: The Quarterly
Journal of the International Computer Music Association. Jim is
also actively involved in popular music and had one of his songs
on the Canadian Country Music singles chart for a six-month period
in 1999. He performs in the Nashville area as a freelance keyboardist.
Jim has numerous awards, including the University
of North Texas Composition Studies Scholarship, the Shimmel Scholarship
Award for Composition, the Polanki Scholarship Award, and the
Polish-American Scholarship Award, among others. He is a member
of Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), the International Computer
Music Association, and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music
in the United States.
