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John E. Rogers retired in May of 2005 as Professor of Music and Director of the Electronic Music Studios at the University of New Hampshire. Born in 1938 in Dallas,Texas, he received his early education in the public schools of Texas and Georgia, studied philosophy (BA, 1960) and music (BM, 1960) at the University of Georgia, and did work in music composition at the Yale School of Music (MM, 1962), and Princeton University (MFA, 1965). His main composition teachers were Elliot Carter, Roger Sessions, and Milton Babbitt. Prof. Rogers has taught in the public schools of Naugatuck, Connecticut, at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and has been at the University of New Hampshire since 1967. He has been working in electronic and computer music since the early 1960's, and has published extensively in that field and in the area of music theory. While on faculty at UNH, Prof. Rogers played bass sackbut in the Hampshire Consort, the residence early music ensemble at the University of New Hampshire, and his most recent compositions are for that ensemble. |