Thomas DeLio
          Thomas DeLio is one of the leading composers and theorists in the United Sates today and is internationally renowned in both fields. He received his PhD in 1979 from Brown University in a special interdisciplinary studies program combining music, mathematics and the visual arts. He has composed music for a variety of solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestra, and is especially noted for his wok in computer music. His compositions have been performed worldwide and are recorded on numerous labels including Wergo (Germany), 3D Classics (France), Neuma, Centaur, Capstone, ERM Media and Spectrum. As a scholar, he has published over thirty essays in such journals as The Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, Interface, Sonus, Artforum, Contemporary Music Review (London),   Revue d'Esthetique (Paris), MusikText (Cologne) and The Computer Music Journal. A number of his essays have been anthologized and several have been translated into German, French and Italian. He has published numerous books about contemporary music, most notably Circumscribing the Open Universe (University Press of America; Italian translation, Editore Semar, Rome), and The Music of Morton Feldman (Greenwood Press). He has participated in conferences, festivals and residencies throughout the world.

     His biographical citations include the New Grove (1999-2000 edition) and Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (eighth edition).   A book about his work entitled Essays on the Music And Theoretical Writings of Thomas DeLio is published by The Edwin Mellen Press (2008). It contains essays by leading composers and scholars from Europe and the United States on DeLio's work as well as a CD of recordings of a number of his compositions.

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