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Thomas DeLio
Lecturer, Music Theory
Professor, Theory & Composition
Music Theory & Composition Division
B.M., New England Conservatory of Music; Ph.D. Brown University
Thomas DeLio is one of the leading composers and theorists in the United Sates today and is internationally renowned in both fields. His work is the subject of a forthcoming book entitled Thomas DeLio: Composer and Scholar; biographical citations appear in New Groves and Baker’s.
His music is published by Editore Semar (Europe) and Sonic Art Editions (United States). He has numerous recordings on such labels as Wergo (Mainz); 3D Classics (Paris); Neuma, Centaur, Capstone, and Spectrum. These include: wave / s (percussion, Centaur); Belle-Isle I-IV (tape, Neuma); qu,m (tape, Neuma); Center / s (tape, Neuma); Text (piano, Capstone); Though (piano, Capstone); Than (orchestra , ERMMedia, part of the Masterworks of the New Era series); amounts. to. (electronic opera, Centaur); Center (soprano and chamber ensemble, Neuma); think on parch (tape, Capstone); “decker” (tape, Capstone); plinh,h (tape, Neuma); m,nce (tape, Neuma); though, on (tape, Capstone); as though (percussion solo, Capstone); so again (tape, Capstone); not (piano and percussion, Capstone); ...a different liquid (tape, Capstone); to make / -as / in- (tape, Capstone); "because the... (tape, Neuma); Pine, Bamboo, Plum (tape, Neuma); so on (tape, 3D Classics); as again (tape, 3D Clasics); between (flute and percussion ensemble, 3D Classics); anti-paysage (flute, piano, percussion, tape, Neuma); Of (tape, Neuma); Though (piano, Neuma); so again (tape, Neuma); on again (tape, Neuma); of again (tape, Neuma); contrecoup... (chamber ensemble, Neuma); Against the silence... (percussion ensemble and four-channel tape, Wergo, part of the ComputerMusic Currents series) Against the silence... (percussion ensemble and four-channel tape, 3D Classics); Partial Manifolds (wind ensemble, Spectrum); Gestures (saxophone and piano, Spectrum); Marginal Developments (piano, Spectrum); Serenade (piano, Spectrum).
Thomas DeLio has published over thirty scholarly papers in such journals and periodicals as Perspectives of New Music, Journal of Music Theory, Indiana Theory Review, In theory Only, Interface, Contemporary Music Review, Artforum, Computer Music Journal, Revue d’Esthetique, Percussive Notes among others. These essays been widely translated and anthologized. Their subjects include the music of such composers as Xenakis, Feldman, Cage Carter, Wolff, Schoenberg, Wolpe, Satie, Dallapiccola, Ashley, Lucier, among other. He has published numerous books and essays about various aspects of 20th century music. His books include The Music of Morton Feldman (Greenwood Press), Twentieth Century Music Scores (Prentice-Hall), Circumscribing the Open Universe (University Press of America; Italian translation published by Editore Semar, Rome), Contiguous Lines: Issues and Ideas in the Music of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s (University Press of America).
He has lectured extensively throughout the world as well as participating in conferences and residencies in the US and Europe.
