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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nJohn McKinnon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (Advanced Theory, Composition and Arranging, Brass Pedagogy, World Music and Ethnomusicology, Electronic Music):<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since coming to Eastern Oregon University, McKinnon has had several of his compositions for chamber ensembles, wind ensemble and orchestra performed throughout the Pacific Northwest. A composition, entitled The Seven Sisters of Sleep, was performed by Third Angle Ensemble in Portland, Oregon during the spring of 2010, and at the 2004 Oregon Bach Festival. McKinnon was selected as the Oregon Music Teachers Association\u2019s composer of the Year in 2005, which included a commission for a set of songs for voice and piano with texts by Oregon poets that was performed at the OMTA State Conference. He has written works for Sound Moves, Matt Cooper, the DeRosa Ensemble, and the Grande Ronde Symphony performed his multi-media collaboration dealing with contemporary interpretations of the Twelve Labors of Herakles. McKinnon has written electronic music compositions for the theater, and is director of the Electronic Music Lab at EOU. His research interests include Community Music, and the introduction of \u201cworld and popular music\u201d in traditional first and second-year theory courses. He was an Instructor in the Waseda (Japan)\/Oregon Exchange Program and has studied music in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, McKinnon spent the fall of 2010 at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was a visiting scholar in the MSc Music in the Community Program. His short article \u201cThe Silk Road to Scotland\u201d, about the program was published in the SAME Journal in Scotland in October 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Loso Hall 136 30 Minutes with the EOU Music Faculty Playing New Music By John McKinnon This short recital\/talk with the audience and performers will take place on the stage of Groth, Loso Hall, Eastern Oregon University. Friday, April 14th, at 7:30pmDonations will go to the EOU Student Composition Scholarship. Featuring Matt Cooper, Peter Wordelman, Mio Aoike, Jamie Jacobson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1025","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1025\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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