Speaker Announcement: Seth Boustead

Seth Boustead received his Master of Music Composition degree from the Chicago College for the Performing Arts. His music is regularly performed across the United States and in Europe and has been heard on radio and television stations in Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Paris among others. Recent commissions include music for Chicago Opera Vanguard, Bruce Mau Design and the Moving Architects dance troupe.

Seth is the founder and Executive Director of Access Contemporary Music, a Chicago based organization dedicated to the promotion of music by living composers. Under his leadership ACM started many of its signature programs such as Weekly Readings, Composer Alive, the ACM School of Music, and the High School Composer's Workshop, and he has been instrumental in growing the audience for ACM's live events.

Seth has been interviewed by or had writings appear in a wide variety of publications including Chicago Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Composition Today, New Music Box of the American Music Center and Chamber Music Magazine. He is a frequent guest on Chicago Public Radio and also a sought-after speaker who has given talks and panel presentations at Chamber Music America, Stanford University, the American Music Center and many others.