Here’s another in our series of profiles of the resident composers taking part in this year’s Mizzou New Music Summer Festival:

Jeremy Podgursky (pictured) is a composer and performer of acoustic and electro-acoustic concert music who originally is from Louisville, KY. He currently lives in Bloomington, IN, where he has a Jacobs School of Music doctoral fellowship (D.M.) at Indiana University. Podgursky has studied acoustic composition with Don Freund, Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite, and electronic music with John Gibson and Alicyn Warren.

After completing his masters degree, Podgursky taught music theory, aural skills and private composition lessons at the University of Louisville, as well as after-school composition programs in Louisville area public high schools.

In addition to his interest in concert music, Podgursky says he has “a love/hate relationship with rock ‘n’ roll,” and finds himself “writing and singing his own songs at the most inopportune times.” His rock band The Pennies has shared stages with many leading indie rock acts, toured in the United States and Europe, and has issued four CDs.

You can hear samples of Podgursky’s concert music on his website and on his MySpace page.

As part of the paper’s coverage of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, Podgursky was profiled in last Sunday’s Columbia Daily Tribune by staff writer Aarik Danielsen, and you can read that story online here. (A complete transcript of the interview is available here.)

For more, go here to see and hear Podgursky and fellow composer Derek Bermel (one of the guest composers at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival) discussing the first reading of Podgursky’s piece Our Bliss, It Comes in Waves at the Earshot festival in Denver, CO.