Kevin Terrell Madison
Pianist-Composer | Educator
kevinterrellmadison@gmail.com 
www.kevinterrellmadison.xyz

Curriculum Vitae - November 2025



EDUCATION

California Institute of the Arts | D.M.A. in Composition and Performance (2024) Boston Conservatory at Berklee | Performance Certificate (2020) Boston Conservatory at Berklee | M.M. in Contemporary Classical Music (2019) Rutgers University | B.M. in Piano Performance (2017)

SELECTED COMMISSIONS & PREMIERES
  • CalArts REDCAT: The End is New, works for piano, cello and synthesizer (2025)
  • Seoul Museum of Art: Tamir Mur, film score for Rashed Qurwash (2025)
  • 2220 Arts and Letters: Doll King, live electronics and flute (2025)
  • Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania): descension, live electronics, flute (2025)
  • New Theater Hollywood: A Night of Speeches, for live electronics, guitar and piano (2025)
  • Skinship (Berlin, Germany): ecogallery, solo flute for live filming by Arte Tracks (2025)
  • Hamraborg Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland): going back there, live electronics with flute (2025)
  • Human Resources LA: Teddie Time, live electronics score (2024)
  • The Next Festival NYC: no one’s fault, string orchestra (2024)
  • New Gallery Concert Series: who rules everything around me?, bass clarinet and piano (2024)
  • Highways Performance Space: my blue raspberry, co-composed with Jacob Wolff (2024)
  • re:publica Festival (Hamburg, Austria): Looking for Evidence of the Virtual... film score for multimedia installation (2023)
  • Lunga Festival (Seyðisfjörður, Iceland): NYX, film score for filmmaker “RB” Moran (2023)
  • Minaret Records: noworriesLMK, works for piano, bass, percussion and voice (2023)
  • Castle of Our Skins: bus driver, solo viola (2021)
  • Museum of Fine Arts (Boston): Black Narcissus, solo piano (2019)
  • Spectrum (NYC): sorry for yelling, work for piano, percussion, two cellos, and clarinet (2019)
  • WQXR: him calling, solo piano (2018)
  • Carnegie Hall: room for milk, solo piano (2017)
  • Le Poisson Rouge: chamber symphony for those holding on, chamber orchestra (2016)

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, & INVITED LECTURES
  • UChicago: Guest Composer (April 2025)
  • The Next Festival NYC: Composition Fellow (2024)
  • Woodcliffe-Byrdstock Residency: Full merit-based Composition Scholarship (2024)
  • Castle of our Skins: Black Composer Miniature Challenge (2021) 
  • PASIC Composition Contest: my technology, vibraphone and piano, 3rd Prize (2020)
  • Harvard University: Guest Performer-Composer (October 2019)
  • Bang on a Can Summer Festival: Merit-based Performer/Composer Half-Scholarship (2019)
  • Rehearsal for Life: Teaching-Artist / Composer-in-Residence (2017 - 2019)
  • Harvard Music Festival: Full merit-based composition scholarship (2018)
  • Festival Baltimore: Full merit-based Performer/Composer scholarship (2018)
  • Montclair State University: Guest Composer (March 2017)
  • Alfred J. Humphrey Award: Excellence in Piano Performance (2017)
  • Brevard Solo Piano Competition: 1st Prize (2016)
  • Brevard Concerto Competition: 1st Prize (2016)

SKILLS IN TECHNOLOGY
  • Composition: Max for Live, Logic Pro X, Ableton Live, ProTools, Film Scoring, Analog Synthesis, Digital Audio, Spatialized Sound Design
  • Live sound: A/V Setup & Operation (Projectors, Speakers, Microphones), Digital & Analog Mixing Consoles, Live Mixing, Recording 
  • Notation: Sibelius, Finale
  • Administrative: Google Workspace (Advanced), Zoom (Host/Admin)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Herb Alpert School of Music - California Institute of the Arts | 2021 – 2024  Doctoral Lecturer (Instructor of Record)

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST




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