Samuel Burt

Biography

Samuel Burt is a composer in Baltimore, Maryland. As a board member of the High Zero Foundation since 2005, he has helped curate the High Zero Festival, Red Room series, and Worlds in Collusion. His compositions have been performed across the U.S. As an improviser, he has performed numerous times in the international High Zero Festival as well as venues along the East Coast. Currently he performs in the avant free jazz band Coy Fish. He facilitates the monthly musical improvisation workshop called the Volunteers' Collective. His instrumental performance focuses on clarinets and the daxophone, an instrument he builds and sells. His current electronic music projects focus on performer-computer interactivity, guided indeterminacy, multi-channel spatialization and sound design. 

Burt received his M.M. degrees in composition and computer music from Peabody and his B.Mus from UGA. He has studied composition with Lewis Nielson, Leonard Ball, Christopher Theofanidis, and Geoffrey Wright. He teaches at Towson and Johns Hopkins Universities.