WILLYN WHITING

PhD . University of North Texas . Composition & Music Theory

Dissertation Document, Metaphor and Mimesis in an Animal Soundscape (2023)
Dissertation Piece, HOWL for Viola, Baritone Saxophone and 4-channel Audio (2023)
Jon Christopher Nelson, Supervisor

MM . University of Western Ontario . Composition

Thesis, Six Blake Songs for Soprano and Mixed Ensemble (2018)
Paul Frehner, Supervisor

BM . University of Toronto . Composition & Piano

TEACHING

Canadian Mennonite University

Private Composition Lessons . Instructor

University of North Texas

Private Composition Lessons . Instructor
Instrumentation . Teaching Fellow
Aural Skills . TF
Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia . Teaching Assistant
Contemporary Materials and Techniques . TA

University of Western Ontario

Keyboard Harmony . TA

PERFORMANCES

2026

• Electronic Music Midwest Festival . Lewis University . Romeoville, IL . US

2025

• Enharmonic Interfaces and Controllers for Keyboard Instruments Symposium . Kunstuniversität Vienna . Austria
• International Review of Composers . Belgrade . Serbia
• International Computer Music Conference . New England Conservatory . Boston, MA . US

2024

• Enharmonic Interfaces and Controllers for Keyboard Instruments Symposium . Kunstuniversität Graz . Austria
• MUSLAB After . Teatro Prometeo . Quito . Ecuador
• Association of Technology in Music Instruction National Convention (ATMI) . Washington, DC . US
• Research on Contemporary Composition Conference (ROCC) . University of North Georgia . US
• International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds (IS^2) . Erlangen . Germany
• National Association of Composers in the USA Conference (NACUSA) . University of North Georgia . US
• Canadian University Music Society Annual Conference (MUSCAN) . Brandon University . Canada
• Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Annual Conference (SEAMUS) . Louisiana State University . US
• Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (MGMC) . University of Iowa . US
• Napoleon Electronic Media Festival (NEMF) . Eastern Illinois University . US
• Winnipeg New Music Festival (WNMF) . Winnipeg, MB . Canada

2023

• Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology Conference (WOCMAT) . Kainan University . Taiwan
• Research on Contemporary Composition Conference (ROCC) . Univeristy of North Georgia . US
• Manchester Theatre in Sound Festival (MANTIS) . University of Manchester . UK
• Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (MGMC) . University of Chicago . US
• Electronic Music Midwest Festival (EMM) . Kansas City Kansas Community College . US
• Performing Media Festival (PMF) . Indiana University South Bend . US

2022

• Resilience Festival (REF) . Foggia . Italy
• Electric Louisiana-Texas Festival (LaTex) . Rice University . US
• Avant-Garten Liedberg Festival . Korschenbroich-Liedberg . Germany

2021

• International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest (ICA) . online
• Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States Annual Conference (SEAMUS) . online
• UCR Arts Audiovisual Frontiers . University of California Riverside . online

PD WORKSHOPS

• Cluster Festival Bring Your Own Score Workshop . Winnipeg, MB . Canada
• Creative Music Intensive . Averill Park, NY . US,
• Domaine Forget Academy . Saint Irenee, QC . Canada,
• Montreal Contemporary Music Lab . Montreal, QC . Canada
• Opera From Scratch . Halifax, NS . Canada
• Orford Academy . Orford, QC . Canada
• precept.concept.percept . Bled . Slovenia
• SPLICE Institute . Western Michigan University . US
• Winnipeg New Music Festival Composer's Institute . Winnipeg, MB . Canada
• zFestival Unacademy . online/US

ACCEPTED, UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE

• 2026 . International Computer Music Festival (ICMC) . Hamburg . Germany
• 2024 . NoiseFloor Contemporary Music . Lisbon . Portugal
• 2023 . International Electroacoustic Music Exhibition (MUSLAB) . Guyaquil . Ecuador
• 2022 . New York City Electronic Music Festival (NYCEMF) . New York City . US
• 2022 . ICEBERG Institute . New York City . US
• 2021 . Impulse New Music Festival (INMF) . Los Angeles CA . US

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2026

• Manitoba Arts Council . Travel Grant
• Winnipeg Arts Council . Individual Artist Grant

2025

• SOCAN Foundation . Travel Assistance Grant
• Manitoba Arts Council . Travel Grant
• Winnipeg Arts Council . Travel/PD Grant

2024

• SOCAN Foundation . Young Composer Award - Grand Prize
• SOCAN Foundation . Young Composer Award - Solo & Duet
• SOCAN Foundation . Travel Assistance Grant
• Manitoba Arts Council . Create Grant

2023

• SOCAN Foundation . Young Composer Award - Large Ensemble
• SOCAN Foundation . Travel Assistance Grant