Bio
Dr. Kristi McGarity, Assistant Professor of Music, directs the new Music Technology program and teaches music technology, composition, and oboe at Montana State University. She earned a degree in oboe performance from the University of Michigan and a Master of Music in composition from the University of Texas, where she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2009. She has studied composition at UT with Russell Pinkston, Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, and Kevin Puts, and she served as oboist with the New Music Ensemble directed by Dan Welcher. In addition to her work at UT, she taught electronic music at Austin Community College and oboe at Austin Lyric Opera's Armstrong Community Music School. Her background in acoustic and electronic media includes theatrical composition and sound design, songwriting and production, and collaborative works for film/video and dance. Awards and honors include first prize in the 2001 ASCAP/SEAMUS Commission Competition, a prize in the Athena 2001 Festival Competition, and recordings on the Summit Records label, the Murray State University Concert Choir CD A Choral Tour of Italy, and the SEAMUS CD series.

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