Juan Chattah
- Composer
Juan Chattah holds a M.M. and a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition
from Florida State University, a B.M. in Piano Performance from the
Utrecht Conservatorium (The Netherlands), and a Certificate of Music
Education from the Conservatorio de Musica in Cordoba (Argentina).
Primarily a theorist, his research interest concerns the application of
models drawn from linguistics and critical theory to the analysis of
film music. Recent research has been presented internationally, and his
scholarship has been published by Oxford University Press, McGraw Hill,
SAGE Reference, and Hayden McNeil. As composer, his music ranges from
concert music highly influenced by archetypical gestures and moods of
film music, to interactive electro-acoustic music for various dance
groups, to children songs for the radio drama series Stories in the Air
broadcast internationally through Public Radio International. As
pianist, he studied in The Netherlands under Herman Uhlhorn and David
Kuyken, and participated in master classes with Michel Beroff, Ivan
Moravec, and Paul Badura-Skoda. He performed extensively in Europe and
Latin America, and his students have won prestigious national and
international competitions.