Kristofer Kuk

Christopher Cook (1962, USA) received the Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University where he served as assistant director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music. He has received awards and honors from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Arts,[ ASCAP, MTNA, and the National Assembly of Local Arts Agen-cies. He has been composer-in residence for Amherst College, the Uni-versity of Evansville, Monroe County Community Schools Corporation (Indiana) and for the city of Somerset, Pennsylvania. He is Director of Music Theory and Compo-sition at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
His compositions are widely performed in university and festival settings, including June in Buffalo, Music of Our Time, the Indiana State University Con-temporary Music Festival, The Society of Composers Inc., the Annual American Music Week (Sofia, Bulgaria), and the Utrecht Music Festival (The Netherlands). His Electro-acoustic works have been presented at conferences and festivals in-clud-ing the International Computer Music Conference, Society for Elec-tro-acoustic Music in the United States, Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, and the InterMedia Manifold TechArt exhibit.
He is Assistant Professor of Music at Chowan University.

Dreamscape is a prelude inspired by a quote from Hyperion, a poem by John Keats.
As when, upon a tranced summer-night,
Those green-rob’d senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir
–John Keats