Brian Lindgren
PRODiG+ Fellow
Brian Lindgren teaches music technology, music theory, and composition. A composer, researcher, violist, and instrument builder, his work explores the convergence of acoustic performance and digital synthesis through the EV, a hybrid string instrument that integrates traditional lutherie with embedded computing. He works fluidly across concert music, electroacoustic composition, and popular and commercial production.
His compositions and research have been featured at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) conference, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), the IRCAM Forum, the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), and PdMaxCon25~, and have been published in the journal Organised Sound. His composition "two tales from the shadows of the grid" tied for first place at the 2025 IEEE Big Data Workshop on AI Music Generation, and the EV was named a finalist in the 2026 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, with coverage in Popular Science,Gizmodo, and Wired. His work has been performed by ensembles including HYPERCUBE, LINÜ, Popebama, and the Tokyo Gen'on Project, and he has been commissioned by the Plattsburgh State Sinfonia and the Virginia Coastal Conservatory, among others.
As a violist, Lindgren has performed with Alarm Will Sound, the Triple Helix Piano Trio, and Wordless Music, and has recorded for Tyondai Braxton (Warp), R.A. the Rugged Man (Nature Sounds), David Liptak (Bridge), and Joe Phillips (New Amsterdam). As a composer and producer, he has written music for film, dance, advertising, and the concert stage, with clients including Amtrak, Estée Lauder, NHK, and filmmaker Nelson George. His film scores include the award-winning documentary Appreciation: The Tomiko Morimoto West Story.
Lindgren holds a B.M. in viola performance from the Eastman School of Music and an M.F.A. in sonic arts from Brooklyn College (CUNY), and is completing a Ph.D. in music composition and computer technologies at the University of Virginia. He studied composition with Morton Subotnick, Matthew Burtner, Jules Gimbrone, JoVia Armstrong, Luke Dahl, and Doug Geers, and viola with John Graham and Beth Gorevic.
- Education
- Ph.D. (in progress) — Music Composition & Computer Technologies, University of Virginia
- M.F.A. — Sonic Arts, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
- B.M. — Viola Performance, Eastman School of Music
- Teaching Areas
- Recent Performances & Presentations