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Meet the EC/NC

Jon Southwood is currently a Master of Arts candidate in Music Composition at the University of Iowa. He received his Bachelor or Arts degree in Music Performance from Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa with concentrations in Voice and Classical Guitar. Jon's music has been performed by the Clarke Collegiate Singers, members of the UI Center for New Music, members of the UI Kantorei, and members of the UI faculty. He has received performances on numerous concerts at the Univeristy of Iowa as well as at Indiana University and the Oberlin Conservatory during the Midwest Composers' Symposiums of 1997 and 1998 respectively.

John Allemeier, currently a Ph. D. Candidate in composition at the University of Iowa, received his Master of Music in Composition from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music in Guitar Performance from Augustana College (IL). He has studied composition with David Gompper, D. Martin Jenni, M. William Karlins, and Michael Pisaro. His music has been performed by the Oberlin Percussion Group, University of Iowa Percussion Ensemble, University of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Singers, Texas Christian University Percussion Ensemble, and by Kronos Quartet in a student reading session. John's music was programmed at the 1995 Society of Composers, Inc. National Conference and the 1998 Society of Composers Region VI Conference. In May of 1997, he received the Henry and Parker Pelzer Fellowship Award from the University of Iowa. Most recently he received Honorable Mention in the ASCAP Foundation/Rudolf Nissim Composers Competition.

The SCI Newsletter

As editors of the SCI Newsletter, we are responisble for the primary vessel of communication between the members of the society. Every month, we gather members' activities, calls for scores and competitions, and solicit articles for the following month's issue. Each Newsletter is assembled from various scraps of paper, numerous e-mail correspondences and hours of work. Once the Newsletter is completed, it is sent to the University of Iowa Printing Center. After the Newsletters return from printing, they are individually labeled by the editors and sent on to the University Central Mail Processing Center. At times, we work [too] closely with the president to inform the membership of conference dates and special programs offered by SCI. In addition to the Newsletter, we also process all of the bulk mailings, like the Membership Brochure and the SCI/ASCAP Student Competition Brochure.

We have been fortunate to have inherited a publication with a record of high quality and with a preestablished production process. It is our intention to maintain and if possible enhance the quality of the publication. We are now striving for a newsletter that balances the current communicative focus with substantive content.