They/Them/Theirs
Office: FAB 245 | Phone: (308) 865-8632 | Email: donofrioaj@unk.edu
Ph.D., University of Iowa (2011)
M.A., Kent State University (2007)
M.M., Kent State University (2005)
B.M., Kent State University (2003)
Dr. Anthony Donofrio (they/them) is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, teaching composition, coordinating the music theory area, and directing the UNK New Music Series and Festival.
Anthony’s music fuses the compositional techniques found in literature and painting with a very personal and secretive approach to composing music, favoring delicate and fragile timbres, non-linear structures, and distorted formal plans. Their research focuses on the intersection of music and literature – specifically the study of non-linear or non-goal-oriented music.
Anthony’s works have been commissioned or performed by many wonderful and talented specialists in new music, including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Quince Contemporary Ensemble, the S.E.M. Ensemble, the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, Chamber Cartel, soprano Liz Pearse, pianists Ashlee Mack (Khasma Duo) and Amy O’Dell, bassist James Ilgenfritz, cellist Stephen Marotto, trumpeter Louie Eckhardt, and tubist Aaron Hynds.
Anthony has been a guest composer, performer, and speaker at numerous new music festivals and conferences, including the Bowling Green State University New Music Festival, SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) National Conference, the University of Western Illinois New Music Festival, the University of Tennessee New Music Festival, Electro-Acoustic Barn Dance, WSU Electro-Acoustic Festival, and the Omaha Under the Radar Festival.
A regular collaborator with colleagues, Anthony has been commissioned by UNK professor of low brass Robert Benton, UNK professor of voice Sharon Campbell, the Kearney Symphony Orchestra, and has written music for three separate UNK Dance productions. The 3-hour Several Hundred Drops of Water, premiered in May of 2017 by Chamber Cartel, was a result of a collaboration with UNK professor of ceramics Mallory Wetherell on the reactions of clay to water; the form of the piece is a direct mapping of the resulting shapes found in such reactions.
More information can be found at www.donofrio-music.com
