CLIFTON CALLENDER, Assistant Professor of Composition, received the Ph.D. in composition from the University of Chicago as a Whiting Fellow. He holds a M.M. in composition from the Peabody Conservatory and a B.F.A. from Tulane University.

Callender's music has been recognized by and performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance 2002 Biennial Conference, Northern Illinois University, the iChamber New Music Series, the NACUSA Young Composers Competition, the Northern Arizona University Centennial Composition Competition, the Composers Conference at Wellesley College, the Ernest Bloch Music Festival, the 2nd PIANISSIMO festival in Bulgaria, the University of Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players, SCI Regional and Student conferences, SEAMUS, the Fifth World Harp Congress in Copenhagen, and the Chicago Union League Civic & Arts Foundation.

His orchestral work, Visage, received a reading by the American Composers Orchestra as part of the Whitaker New Music Reading Sessions. Also active in music theory, Dr. Callender has published articles in the Journal of Music Theory and Perspectives of New Music and presented at the Society for Music Theory and Music Theory Midwest annual conferences.