Curtis Rumrill is a composer, writer, educator, and organizer. His work moves between fiction, experimental music theater, opera, improvisation, performance, and instrumental chamber music. His compositions have been performed throughout Latin America, the United States, and Europe. His work includes the opera Her Holiness, The Winter Dog, and the experimental music-theater works What the Interference Took, Riding the Fader, Unky Dead Bones McGringo and The Saddest Music in the World. He is a member of the research group Musica ex machina at IRCAM in Paris. His work has been commissioned and premiered by Ensemble L’Itinéraire, Ensemble Dal Niente, Rage Thormbones, Soo Yeon Lyuh, Ashley Bathgate, Théo Ould, collective lovemusic, Juna Toksöz, Duo Riso and others. Alongside his artistic work, Rumrill is a labor organizer and community organizer, and currently the West Coast Local Representative for the NY NewsGuild, representing journalists and other media workers including at ProPublica. He is a Professor of Music Theory at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Doctoral Candidate in Music Composition at UC Berkeley. His teaching emphasizes experimentation, creative risk-taking, skill-building, and the development of one’s own voice.
