Jonathan Hallstrom (b.1954) teaches music theory and composition, conducts the Colby Symphony Orchestra and directs the multimedia studio. He has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Exxon, and Sloan Foundations for his work in computer-generated sound and interactive multimedia and has been a featured composer at many national and international conferences and festivals, including SEAMUS, SCI, ICMC, The New Music America Festival, The Bourges "Sonneries Utopiques" festival and IRCAM's Portes Overtes series. In 1989-90 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Keele's Center for Music Technology, and from 1990-1995 served as Consulting Director for the Juilliard Music Technology Center . He has been a visiting composer at The University of Lancaster (England), Marshall University, and Colgate University. As a conductor, Mr. Hallstrom has appeared with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, the Keele (England) Symphony Orchestra, L’orchestre du Dixième (Paris), The Bangor Symphony Orchestra, The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, The University of Iowa and University of Wisconsin New Music Ensembles and The Oregon State University Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared as a conductor/clinician at numerous high school orchestra festivals throughout the United States.