Even before coming to Columbia for the 2015 Mizzou International Composers Festival, resident composer Conrad Winslow has been all over these United States.

As his professional bio puts it, “Extended childhood road-trips through the continental United States and a residential stint in Hawaii have taught him to look wide.” Raised in Homer, Alaska and now based in Brooklyn, Winslow earned his undergraduate degree in music from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

He subsequently moved to the Northeast, earning an M.M. degree in film scoring from New York University and a master’s degree in composition from the Juilliard School, where he studied with John Corigliano.

Informed by his travels and by “watching his parents chop down trees and build a log cabin home in the woods,” Winslow’s music has been lauded for its “harmonic thorniness and rhythmic vitality” by the New York Times and described as a “scenic, boisterous and bumpy ride” by the Albany Times Union.

He has earned honors and awards from ASCAP, New Music USA, the American Composers Forum and The Jerome Fund, and more. Winslow also has written instrumental music on commission from Carnegie Hall, the American Composers Orchestra, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, Bala Brass, and Gaudete Brass (who recorded his work for Cedille Records), and others.

His most recent commissions include works for bassoonists Rebekah Heller and Adrian Morejon, under the auspices of the International Double Reed Society, and Cadillac Moon Ensemble; and a ballet score for choreographer Justin Peck.

Winslow’s orchestral work “Joint Account” will receive a world premiere performance from the American Composers Orchestra in October at Carnegie Hall as part of the SONiC Festival, curated by former MICF distinguished guest composers Derek Bermel and Anna Clyne.

You can hear samples of Conrad Winslow’s music in the embedded SoundCloud and YouTube players below.

“Two Riddles” for two bassoons, performed by Rebekah Heller and Adrian Morejon on August 6, 2014 at SubCulture, NYC.