Dr. Kevin Wilt

Dr. Kevin Wilt
Chair, Department of Music

Director, School of the Arts

Associate Professor
Composer-in-Residence

Areas of Expertise:
Composition

Orchestration

Music Theory

Email: wiltk@fau.edu
Office Phone: 561.297.3821
Office: AH 119C

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Kevin Wilt is a classical music evangelist. He composes music to introduce new audiences to the joy, drama, and adventure of classical music through familiar colors and lush textures, while engaging seasoned audiences with an underlying craftsmanship and sophistication. Composer praised his expert orchestration and beautiful writing, while the Bloomington Herald wrote, “[his music] has a keen sense of mood and tonal balance.”

Kevin’s recent commissions include Tavern Music for the Con Brio Quartet, and AutoBonn for and . His album with the , Tavern Music, on won a silver medal in the .

He was a resident at the , and winner of the Commission in Florida. He won the Call for Scores with his chamber opera, Prix Fixe, and the Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble Composer Search. He was awarded a grant by the to create Urban Impressions, a multi-movement work for large wind ensemble. He was a recent finalist for the Call for Scores, a finalist for the ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennel Prize, the Symphony Number One Call for Scores III, the Call for Scores, and the in orchestra, band, and chamber music categories.

Recent performances include those by the , the , the , , the , , the , SHUFFLE Concert, the , ensembles at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the University of Texas at Austin, Florida State University, the University of Kansas, the University of Oklahoma, Michigan State University, Kennesaw State University, as well as a reading by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin.

Kevin is equally at home composing for film and television, earning him a Michigan Emmy® Award Nomination for Best Musical Composition. Other film projects include The Hitmen, The Inevitable, The Happy Couple, a string quartet for the short filmRenegade, and The Wars of Other Men.

He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition and a Master in Music Composition from Michigan State University, and Bachelor of Music Composition and Theory from Wayne State University.

He is Associate Professor of Music, Composer-in-Residence, Chair of the Department of Music, and Director of the School of the Arts at ʦapp in Boca Raton.

Kevin is equally at home composing for film and television, earning him a Michigan Emmy® Award Nomination for Best Musical Composition. Other film projects include The Hitmen, The Inevitable, The Happy Couple, a string quartet for the short filmRenegade, and The Wars of Other Men.

He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition and a Master in Music Composition from Michigan State University, and Bachelor of Music Composition and Theory from Wayne State University.

He is Associate Professor of Music, Composer-in-Residence, Chair of the Department of Music, and Director of the School of the Arts at ʦapp in Boca Raton.

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