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Andrew Schloss is a pioneer in new musical instruments. He has performed in concert halls and major festivals around the world, and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including Fulbright Scholar at IRCAM (France) and a collaborative composer’s grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, along with major creative and research grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Social Science and Humanities Research Council and the Langlois Foundation. He was invited to perform at the Centennial celebrations at Stanford University along with Leon Theremin, inventor of one of the first electronic musical instruments of the 20th century. Schloss studied at Bennington College, University of Washington and Stanford University, where he received his PhD in 1985 working at CCRMA. He was co-organizer of ICMC 2001 in Havana (Cuba), and was music chair for NIME 2005. Schloss has taught at Brown University, the University of California at San Diego, The Banff Centre for the Arts, and currently at the University of Victoria.

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