Anthony K. Brandt is an associate professor of composition at the ShepherdSchool of Music. He was awarded the university's George R. Brown Award forSuperior Teaching in 2007 and the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize in 2001. He isalso co-founder and artistic director of the Houston-based contemporary musicensemble Musiqa, honored with a 2013 Chamber Music America/ASCAP AdventurousProgramming Award.Brandt earned his degrees from California Institute of the Arts and HarvardUniversity. His honors include a Koussevitzky Commission from the Library ofCongress and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet-the-Composer,the Houston Arts Alliance, the New England Foundation for the Arts and theMargaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program. He has been a fellow at theWellesley Composers Conference, the Tanglewood Institute, the MacDowell Colonyand the Djerassi Resident Artists Colony. He has been a visiting composer at theBowdoin International Festival, the Bremen Musikfest, Baltimore's New ChamberArts Festival, Southwestern University, SUNY- Buffalo and Cleveland StateUniversity and composer-in-residence of Houston's OrchestraX and theInternational Festival of Music in Morelia, Mexico. He has organized two international conferences on "Exploring the Mind throughMusic" at Rice and co-authored a Frontiers paper on music and early languageacquisition.