BIO

Russell Podgorsek is a composer, violist, and electric guitarist. His awards and commissions include Teasdale Triptych for mezzo-soprano Page Stephens, Flavour Symmetries for Tetractys New Music, a NewMusicUSA Project Grant for a collaboration with NANOFiction and the Cordova Quartet, Six Memos for the Next Millennium for the Bel Cuore Saxophone Quartet, Songs for the Sane 3.0 and Reversal of Fortune for the Life/Art Dance Ensemble (CO), MicroSymphony for the Salisbury Symphony Orchestra (MD), and Lament and Lullaby for the Sudbury Youth Orchestra (Ontario, Canada). He currently serves as Lecturer at the University of Texas where he earned his DMA. He is a graduate of both the Hartt School of Music (CT) and the University of Dayton (OH).