Kaitlyn Wagner (b. 1993) is a promising young composer whose works have been performed by the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Freya String Quartet, Dr. JW Turner (President-Elect of the College Music Society), the Oasis Saxophone Quartet, violinist Sarah Plum, and a variety of musicians hailing from Singapore and the Ukraine to students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 
    
In 2013, Kaitlyn was the youngest featured composer at the Charlotte New Music Festival, where her piece Kings of Infinite Space was performed by the Pittsburgh-based Freya String Quartet, and in 2014 she attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival, where she studied extensively with Samuel Adler. 

Her piece for Moog Model 12, Korg Analog Sequencer, & live electronics, "I, Philip" has been performed at both the 2015 National Student Music Event and as a part of New Music Greensboro. The piece as been recognized by the Bob Moog Foundation, as well as three journalistic publications: the News & Record, UNCG Campus Weekly, and The Carolinian. 

Kaitlyn's long-term teachers have included Randy Woolf, Alejandro Rutty, Mark Engebretson, Steven Bryant, Derek Bermel, and Samuel Adler. 

She is a rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studies with Alejandro Rutty and Mark Engebretson, as well as privately with Steven Bryant.

For more information, see: http://www.kaitlynwagnermusic.com


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