Background
DMus, Northwestern University
Kenn Kumpf ‘13 DMus is a composer, vocalist, and educator. He teaches first-year Aural Skills and Honors Music Theory at Northwestern. Kenn previously taught composition, counterpoint, and orchestration at Columbia College Chicago. His research interests include the history of tuning and temperament, extended vocal techniques, and the use of technology in musicianship training.
Kenn is the creator of and administrator for the 1st-Year Toolkit, a suite of software practice tools used by all students in the first year of Music Theory and Aural Skills in Bienen. His compositions have been performed by Ensemble SurPlus, a.pe.ri.od.ic, Ensemble CONCEPT/21, Mike Svoboda, Russell Rolen, and Peter Martin. As a vocalist, he performs with experimental ensemble a.pe.ri.od.ic and has featured as a soloist in works such as Peter Maxwell Davies’ 8 Songs for a Mad King with newEAR and Gerhard Stäbler’s Winter, Blumen.