Helmuth, Mara

Mara Helmuth is a computer music composer and researcher, currently Professor at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati and director of the electronic music studios. She has received a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and the George J. Rieveschl Award for Scholarly and/or Creative Works at UC in 2023. Her music has been performed internationally at conferences, festivals and arts spaces, and is on recordings from PARMA, INNOVA, Fundamental Sounds, Centaur (CDCM), Open Space, Electronic Music Foundation and Everglade. She has developed granular synthesis software, explored internet2 performance and collaborated extensively with performers including Esther Lamneck, tarogato, Andrea Vos Rochefort, clarinet, Joseph Van Hassel, percussion, and Rick VanMatre, saxophone. A current project involves sonification of pulsar data to create fixed media and interactive works. She has analyzed works by Carla Scaletti, Annea Lockwood, and written about gender and computer music. She is a past board member and president of the International Computer Music Association. She received degrees from Columbia University (DMA) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://www.marahelmuth.com/