James Mobberley

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James C. Mobberley (born June 10, 1954, Des Moines, Iowa) is an American composer, music teacher and guitarist. Mobberley serves as Curators' Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, home to one of the largest and best known music composition programs in the U.S. A Rome Prize winner and Guggenheim Fellow, he writes music that spans many media, from orchestra and electro-acoustic music to music for dance, film, and video. His works have received over 1300 performances worldwide. Commissions: Fromm Foundation at Harvard University, Koussevitzky Foundation/Library of Congress, Barlow Endowment, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, National Endowment for the Arts, and numerous ensembles and individual performers. Selected as a 2009 Fellow of the Civitella Ranieri Center, he has also been a Resident Composer with the Kansas City Symphony (1992-1999), and a Visiting Composer with both the Taiwan National Symphony (1999) and the Fort Smith Symphony (2000). Awards: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy in Rome Fellow in Composition, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and awards from League-ISCM, the Van Cliburn Foundation, the Shanghai Spring Festival, and numerous other organizations. He has served on professional panels and nominating committees for organizations that include the American Academy in Rome, the Fromm Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the National Endowment for the Arts,

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