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Dr. Jerry Tabor is a well-known composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. He has been teaching at Salisbury University for eleven years and continuously conducts research in composition-related areas of music. Tabor’s compositions and music research have been presented throughout the United States at major conferences, and he has also been a guest composer and lecturer at many institutions.

Much of his music is influenced by his background as a jazz performer and is written for various instrumental combinations (including orchestra and jazz ensembles) and the electroacoustic medium. A number of Tabor’s compositions are published by Silent Editions and several are recorded on the Neuma Records label, including engaging Causey (ElectroAcoustic Music VI), lemon;birch (ElectroAcoustic Music VII), and veneer/semblance, extremities, verities (Contemporary Chamber Music Series IV). As a featured composer at several music festivals and invited composer, he has lectured on his music at the John Donald Robb International Composers Symposium (NM), the Western Illinois University New Music Festival, The Electroacoustic Music: The Continuing Tradition conference (University of Maryland), the Holy Cross College New Music Festival (MA), George Mason University, SUNY Buffalo, Catholic University, Central Michigan University, and Hartwick College (New York), among others.

Tabor’s research is focused in the areas of composition theory and compositional teaching methods, as well as jazz studies. His Instructors Manual for the popular text, Jazz the First 100 Years, is published by Thomson publishing company, and his important book on a pioneering theorist and musicologist, entitled, Otto Laske: Navigating New Musical Horizons, is published by Greenwood Press. As an acknowledged expert on composition theory, Tabor is in the process of producing a textbook on compositional procedure that acknowledges various creativity theories and generative approaches involving true originality not dependent upon compositional rhetoric.

As associate professor of music at Salisbury University, Tabor is coordinator of the theory, composition, jazz, and technology programs, as well as director of the jazz ensembles. He teaches courses in music theory; composition; jazz theory, history, and performance; creativity theories; and computer music.

Jerry Tabor holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in composition from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Bachelor of Music degree in Theory and Composition from the University of New Mexico.

Teacher Education Technology Center (TE) 304
Office: 410-546-2476 or ext 62476
Email:  jntabor@salisbury.edu