The music of American composer Mikel Kuehn has been described as having “sensuous phrases... producing an effect of high abstraction turning into decadence,” by New York Times critic Paul Griffiths. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, he has received awards, grants, and residencies from ASCAP and BMI, the Banff Centre, the Barlow Endowment, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Composers, Inc., the Copland House, the International Destellos Competition on Electroacoustic Music, the Alice M. Ditson Fund at Columbia University, the Flute New Music Consortium, the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard, the League of Composers/ISCM, the MacDowell Colony, the Ohio Arts Council, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. His works have been commissioned by the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Ensemble 21, Ensemble Dal Niente, Flexible Music, the International Contemporary Ensemble, violist John Graham, clarinetist Marianne Gythfeldt, cellist Craig Hultgren, guitarist Dan Lippel, Perspectives of New Music, pianist Marilyn Nonken, Selmer Paris, and the Spektral Quartet, among others. Kuehn received degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of North Texas. His music can be heard on two New Focus Recordings portrait albums,Object/Shadow (2016) and Entanglements (2022). A newly appointed member of the Eastman School of Music composition faculty, he directs the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman (EMuSE) and is the author of the computer music application nGen.