Michael Wittgraf

Biography

Website: www.michaelwittgraf.com

Michael Wittgraf is a composer who works across genres, specializing in electronics.  His music has been performed in across the globe and appears on the Eroica, New Ariel, SEAMUS, Navona, and Ravello labels.  He has awards, commissions, and recognition from ASCAP, Modern Chamber Players, National Symphony Orchestra, Tempus Fugit, Louisiana State University, University of Minnesota, University of North Dakota, Florida State University, Zeitgeist, Chiara String Quartet, Bush Foundation, North Dakota Council on the Arts, and more.  He holds the title of Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor at the University of North Dakota, where his teaching specialties are music technology, composition, theory, and bassoon.

Wittgraf is a multi-instrumentalist, performing with the Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra on bassoon, in a number of rock-and-roll bands on keyboards, saxophone, and electric bass, and as a solo and collaborative performer on computer.

He earned the Doctor of Music degree in composition from Northwestern University, the Master of Arts degree in music composition from the University of Minnesota, and the Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Carleton College.