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Franklin
Cox
Dr. Franklin Cox received B.M. degrees in cello and composition from
Indiana University, as well as composition degrees from Columbia University
(M.A.), and the University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.), where he
also served as adjunct faculty member from 1993 to 1995. He studied cello
with Gary Hoffman, Janos Starker, and Peter Wiley, and composition with
Steven Suber, Fred Lerdahl, Brian Ferneyhough, and Harvey Sollberger.
Dr. Cox has received numerous fellowships, prizes, and commissions from
leading institutions and festivals of new music, including fellowships
from the Schloss Solitude and the Sacher Stiftung, the Kranichsteiner
Prize for both composition and cello performance from the Darmstadt Festival
(also serving on the Komponistforum in 1994), and commissions from the
1998 Berliner Biennale and 2001 Hannover Biennale. He has performed with
many leading new music groups, including the Group for Contemporary Music,
Exposé, Surplus, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and Ensemble
Köln. Since 1993, he has presented a solo recital entitled "The
New Cello," focused on original new works for the cello, more than
80 times throughout Europe and North America. In 2002, he joined the
faculty of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as Assistant
Professor of Music. He is co-editor of the international book series,
New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century. His works are published
by Rugginenti Editions and Sylvia Smith Publications.
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