Alexander Sigman

Alexander Sigman’s award-winning instrumental, electroacoustic, multimedia, and installation works have been featured on major international festivals, exhibitions, institutions, and venues across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the US. In June 2007, Sigman was Composer-in-Residence at the Musiques Démesurées festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Subsequently, he was awarded residency fellowships by the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), the Djerassi Foundation, and the Paul Dresher Ensemble Artists Residency Center. In 2013-2014, he undertook a musical research residency at IRCAM.

Nominal/Noumenal, Sigman’s first portrait recording, was released on Carrier Records in 2012. This album features performances by Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Ensemble SurPlus, and ensemble ascolta. His violin and electronics piece VURTRUVURT will be included on violinist/violist Miranda Cuckson's upcoming solo CD Melting the Darkness, to be released on the Urlicht label.

Also active as a researcher, Sigman has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects in international peer reviewed journals, books, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogues. He has presented lectures at numerous conferences and institutions, including Harvard University, the Aspen Institute, the American Musicological Society, the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, the University of Leeds, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, IRCAM, Nagoya City University, WOCMAT 2012 at National Chiao Tung University Taiwan, and on the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society's 2013 Annual Conference.

Sigman completed his doctorate in Music Composition at Stanford University in 2010. Prior to Stanford, he obtained a BM in Music and a BA in Cognitive Sciences from Rice University. Further postgraduate studies were undertaken at the University for Music and the Performing Arts Vienna, as well as the Institute for Sonology of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands). He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea.

More information may be found here: www.lxsigman.com.