Award-winning composer Arthur Gottschalk is Professor of Music Composition and Theory at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. With the number of compositions in his catalog approaching two hundred, his music is regularly performed both domestically and overseas, and his works are recorded on New Ariel, Crystal Records, Summit, MSR Classics, Capstone, Ablaze, Beauport Classical, ERMMedia, Golden Crest, and AURecordings. His works are published by Subito Music, Shawnee Press, European American Music Distributors, Alea Publishing, TrevCo Music, and The Spectrum Press. Dr. Gottschalk has worked in diverse areas of music, including composing and arranging music for feature films, television scores, numerous industrial films and commercials, music publishing, and record production. He continues to work as an expert in music copyright cases and as a forensic musicologist. Gottschalk’s Concerto for Violin and Symphonic Winds won the First Prize of the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale, with the premiere European performance in 2008 by famed virtuoso Kenneth Goldsmith in Corciano, Italy. Dr. Gottschalk’s many other awards include a prestigious Bogliasco Fellowship and the Charles Ives Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he has been a Composer-in-Residence at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and for the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He has been the recipient of annual awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers since 1980. A student of renowned American composers William Bolcom, Ross Lee Finney, and Leslie Bassett, Arthur Gottschalk carries on this important lineage by producing students who compose original and innovative music in various forums throughout the world.