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Prior to joining 吃瓜tv in 2018, Andrew Conklin held teaching positions at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and Stony Brook University.

Conklin鈥檚 music has garnered recognition from diverse voices spanning the worlds of popular and classical music. He has appeared as a composer and performer throughout the United States and Europe.

Conklin's work has received critical acclaim in blogs such as "Pitchfork" and "The Line of Best Fit" and has been supported by grants from organizations including the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. As a Millay Arts Fellow, Conklin completed two album-length compositions based on Northern California folk music from the late 1930s, which were subsequently released on New Focus Recordings and Bot Cave Records.

Among his current projects is 鈥淪ite: Yizkor,鈥� an ongoing collaboration with the multimedia artist Maya Ciarrocchi. The project was presented in part at the Bronx Museum of Art in 2020 and was premiered in full in 2022 at the Sicho虂w Educational Foundation and Roza Centre, Poland. A new iteration of the project was presented at the King Manor Museum in Jamaica, Queens, in May 2023. Conklin was also commissioned by the Chutzpah! Festival to compose a string quartet version of the score, which was premiered in 2022 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Additional projects include three works that respond in different ways to the music of Renaissance composer Vicente Lusitano: 鈥淓mendemus in Melius鈥� for concert band (premiered in 2024), 鈥淪un Left鈥� for mixed quartet (to be premiered by Hub New Music in 2024), and 鈥淓arth Moves鈥� for percussion octet (to be premiered by 吃瓜tv鈥檚 Percussion Ensemble in 2024).

A versatile musical collaborator, Conklin earned a 2017 Grammy Award nomination for Best Bluegrass Recording for his contributions to 鈥淭he Hazel and Alice Sessions鈥� (Spruce and Maple Music) as a core band member of Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands. His guitar and bass playing can be heard on record labels such as Six Degrees, Spruce and Maple, Plug Research, City Slang, BAG Productions or Arhoolie. He has contributed as a guitarist to recordings by Ben Goldberg, Meklit Hadero and Michael Rocketship. He has also toured extensively in the United States and Europe as a guitarist and bassist with indie rock bands, bluegrass groups and improvising combos.

As a composer, Conklin has enjoyed fruitful partnerships with musicians from some of today's most inquisitive new music ensembles, including the International Contemporary Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, Ensemble Mise-En, Spektral Quartet, Ensemble Connect, Tala Rasa Percussion, the Calidore String Quartet, Splinter Reeds, the Microcosmos Quartet, Hub New Music and Earplay.

Conklin also writes about music theory, composition and the pedagogy of music theory and composition. He has published articles and presented papers on these topics in "Music Theory Online,鈥� 鈥淣ewMusicBox," Pedagogy into Practice, CASMEC, CMEA and the Society of Composers National Conference.

Selected scholarly and creative work:

2024 鈥� 鈥溾�� (Arrangement of Vicente Lusitano鈥檚 motet for concert band)

2023 鈥� 鈥溾�� (Performance at the King Manor Museum, Jamaica, Queens)

2022 鈥� 鈥溾�� (Sicho虂w Educational Foundation; R贸偶a Centre for International and Interdisciplinary Art and Cooperation)

2022 鈥� Paper:  (Pedagogy into Practice Conference).

2021 鈥� Article:  (NewMusicBox)

2021 鈥� Premiere: 鈥�,鈥� for solo piano (Earplay, First Mondays Concert Series)

2020 鈥� Album Release: 鈥溾�� (Bot Cave Records)

2020 鈥� Collaborative multimedia art exhibit: 鈥溾��&苍产蝉辫;(罢别濒别辫丑辞苍别)

2020 鈥� Guitarist: Ben Goldberg鈥檚  (BAG Production Records)

2019 鈥� Article:  (Music Theory Online)

2019 鈥� Premiere: 鈥溾�� (work in progress) (Center for New Music, San Francisco)

2019 鈥� Album release: 鈥溾�� (New Focus Recordings)