Music
Eric Honour, D.Mus.
Professor of Music
Office: HUD 108
Telephone: 660-543-4589
email: honour@ucmo.edu
website: www.erichonour.com
Joined UCM Faculty in 2000.
Dr. Honour is the director of the music technology degree program and UCM's Center for Music Technology. His specialty areas are music composition, audio production, and saxophone performance.
He holds degrees from Northwestern University (D.Mus., composition; M.Mus., composition and saxophone performance) and the University of Florida (B.Mus., composition and saxophone performance; Performer's Certificate).
His principal composition teachers were Jay Alan Yim, Stephen Syverud, M. William Karlins, Alan Stout, and Budd Udell. His principal saxophone teachers were Frederick L. Hemke, Jonathan Helton, and Kandace Brooks. He studied music technology and electronic music with Gary Kendall, Stephen Syverud, and James Paul Sain.
Dr. Honour has been recognized as a composer, performer, scholar, and audio engineer across the United States and internationally. His music has been selected for numerous international and national conferences and festivals, including multiple International Computer Music Conferences, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, SPARK, Electronic Music Midwest, and multiple national conferences of the Society of Composers, Inc. Honour's compositions have been performed by such as notable musicians as the Thelema Trio, Q-02, Quintet Attacca, Winston Choi, and Quartetto Musicattuale. His music has been recorded on Capstone and Innova Records and published by Roncorp, Inc.
Honour is a member of the Athens Saxophone Quartet, based in Athens, Greece, and has performed with the quartet in Greece and the United States. He is well-known as a specialist in contemporary saxophone music. In Spring 2009, he toured Europe and the USA with a program of new music for saxophone and computer by composers from the USA, UK, Italy, and Austria.
His work as an audio engineer appears on the following record labels, in addition to numerous independent releases: Innova, Everview, North Star Appli, and Capstone.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Music Technology
Music Technology I, II, III, & IV
Composition I & II
Advanced Composition
Electronic Music Composition
Music Business Practices
Choral Arranging
Instrumentation
Music Calendar
