Keveli Music - About Us

PHILOSOPHY & MISSION STATEMENT
Keveli Music is a small, independent music publishing company located in McMinnville Oregon that features the orchestra, band, chamber, and jazz publications of Dr. Kevin M. Walczyk, Professor of composition studies at Western Oregon University. Keveli Music is devoted to serving the needs in our community by donating proceeds from all publication sales to non-profit, charitable organizations, particularly those that serve the needs of children in Oregon, including:

Keveli Music also believes strongly in serving the needs of the education community by providing sheet music to educators at a fair price and without performance restrictions; therefore, you will not have to negotiate expensive rental agreements. You purchase the publication. You own the publication and perform it as often as you desire! In fact, Keveli Music offers performance-incentive rewards for qualified performances by university, professional, and community ensembles. Keveli Music also offers unique opportunities for consortium-commissioning projects and consortium-performance projects that allow all levels of performing organizations the chance to commission new works at reasonable rates.

FEATURED COMPOSER
A native of Portland, Oregon, Kevin Walczyk received a Bachelor of Arts in Education degree (instrumental music education) from Pacific Lutheran University and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the University of North Texas. His composition instructors have included Larry Austin, Jacob Avshalomov, Martin Mailman, Cindy McTee, Thomas Svoboda, and David Del Tredici. As an accomplished jazz arranger and composer, Walczyk refined his craft with prominent jazz arrangers Tom Kubis and Frank Mantooth.

Walczyk's works have been commissioned and/or recorded by numerous ensembles, including the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Kiev Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Ukraine National Symphony, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Portland Youth Philharmonic, Third Angle Contemporary Music Ensemble, American Guild of Organists, Hutchins Consort, SoundMoves, Providence Ensemble, Thelema Trio, trumpet virtuoso Tim Morrison, and the Art Abrams Swing Machine Big Band. His works have been featured throughout Europe, Asia, South America and North America and at new music festivals in the United States, Holland, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, and Peru.

Walczyk’s honors include grants from Meet the Composer, Argosy Foundation, American Music Center, and Western Oregon University. He has earned prizes or finalist status from Chamber Orchestra Kremlin International-blitz Competition, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble’s Harvey Gaul Competition, ASCAP, BMI, CBDNA Young Band Composition Contest, Lionel Hampton Creative Composition Contest, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, three Masterworks of the New Era recording prizes, Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Synergy project. His works have been selected for participation by the Mid American Center for Contemporary Music Festival, Ernest Bloch Composers Symposium, College Band Directors National Association, Southeastern League of Composers, College Music Society, Society of Composers, Inc., and the North American Saxophone Alliance. Walczyk is currently resident composer and Professor of composition studies at Western Oregon University, where he has taught since 1995.