Austin Schlichting (b. 1985, Bellingham, WA) is an undergraduate student at Washington State University. He is currently earning his BM in both Music Composition and Violin/Viola Performance. Schlichting started his compositional career writing short pieces for the piano when he was nine years old. Soon after learning music notation he began studying piano privately and eventually started playing violin in the Bellingham School District’s strings program. In high school he also pursued viola and vocal performance. During this time he experimented compositionally by writing arrangements for Bellingham High School’s Orchestras and Choirs. He also edited and directed the music for his high school’s 1950’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Schlichting presently performs with various ensembles on and off campus in Pullman, WA, including the WSU Symphony Orchestra, the WSU Concert Choir, and the WSU Madrigal Singers, and he maintains the position of principal violist for the Washington-Idaho Symphony. He has played with the Olympia Symphony and has attended, performed with, and instructed at many chamber workshops provided by members of the Philadelphia String Quartet as well as at other string music seminars presented by Western Washington University and Washington State University faculty. He performed with the University of Alaska Fairbanks faculty members Ted DeCorso, clarinet, and Eduard Zilberkant, piano, as part of their Northwest tour in 2002. Schlichting’s primary violin/viola teachers include Walter Schwede (Western Washington University) and Meredith Arksey (Washington State University). At Washington State University Schlichting has had his compositions performed by the Washington-Idaho Symphony, WSU Concert Choir and by students and faculty from the music department. His music has also been premiered at Interlochen as part of the camp’s newly developed Composers Institute and at the California Summer Music Festival held in Pebble Beach, CA. His private composition teachers include Charles Argersinger and Ryan Hare (Washington State University).

Compositions

KYRIE

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Kyrie was perhaps written with the subliminal connotations of John Adams’ Grand Pianola Music in mind. In any case, after completing each section separately the piece became a moving line of heavily emphasized syllables, much in the vein of Stockhausen’s Stimmung.

Three Misconceptions: I. This Is What You Want For Yourself

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II. Everything You Hate

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III. We're All Adults Here

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Three Misconceptions was written in a journal-like entry style more than anything else. The piece was first conceived as an outlet to many thoughts that soon would manifest from isolation. All three are very personal pieces, but they contain certain anomalies a patient listener may value over time.

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