J u r a j Kojs

   
     
  making music with instruments, everyday objects, and technology  
     
                     

 

Juraj Kojs is a composer and performer from Slovakia. In May 2008, Juraj received his PhD. in Composition and Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Music. Beginning in September 2008, Juraj joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Yale University as the Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art.

Juraj's research and music areas of interest include cyberinstruments by physical modeling synthesis, everyday objects, Slovak folk music instruments, sounds on the threshold of hearing, and interactive electroacoustic composition.

Juraj is a cofounder of the ensemble SofIA: Sonorities of Interactive Acoustics. He organizes 12 Nights, a monthly series of Computer Music and Art at the Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, Florida.

 

 
News
 
 
  • DVD release of Matthew Burtner's Signal Ruins (Juraj performing the piano part) on EcoSono Records
  • August 18: All Forgotten for piano and electronics to be performed at ICMC 2009 in Montreal, Canada.
  • June 24- July 1: Research trip to Cuzco, Urubamba Valley, and Puno region in Peru.
  • June 17: Xenia Pestova premieres XeXiXa, a piano miniature at The Unitarian Church, Montreal, Canada.
  • April 30: Spencer Topel performs Lord That Giveth Strength for violin and electronics, Dartmouth College, NH.
  • April 24: Karisa Werdon performs In Secret for oboe and electronics at a Electronic Music Concert Series. University Recital Hall, SUNY Stony Brook, NY.
  • April 19: Karisa Werdon performs In Secret for oboe and electronics at her Doctoral Recital. University Recital Hall, SUNY Stony Brook, NY.
  • April 15: There He Stayed. Yale College New Music: Choral Fest. Yale University, New Haven, CT.
  • February 27: presenting At and Across at Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Georgia Tech University in Atlanta, GA