Dr. Linda Antas

Office: Malloy Hall 237
Phone: 785-628-5327
Email: lkantas@fhsu.edu

Dr. Linda Antas is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Ft. Hays State University where she teaches composition, theory, music technology, and flute. She has previously taught at the The College of Wooster, the University of Illinois, Idaho State University, and the University of Washington, Seattle. Her works have been programmed and broadcast throughout the United States and Europe, and are recorded on the Media Cafe, TauKay, and Centaur labels. A Fulbright Fellowship recipient, Antas has also been recognized by the International Music Contest Citta' di Udine, and has received commissions from the International Computer Music Association, trombonist Abbie Conant, and the Rind fund.

An active flutist and proponent of newly composed works, she has performed as flutist and conductor in a variety of venues such as the National Flute Association Convention, the Phonos Foundation’s (Barcelona) Instrumental-Electroacoustica Festival, and the Seattle Chamber Players’ Icebreaker Festival. She enjoys collaboration with other artists and has worked extensively with choreographers, theatre directors, filmmakers, and other composer/improvisors. She was a Visiting Artist at the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media from 2002 – 2004 and has been awarded residencies by the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Djerassi, and Yaddo. Her written work has appeared in Array, the journal of the International Computer Music Association.

Dr. Antas is a dedicated and enthusiastic instructor as has been formally commended for her teaching.

Sample reviews of compositions and teaching:

Clearly, the highlight of the evening was A River From the Walls. This work for flute and tape by Linda Antas creates a powerful aura of engulfing mystery, and features a tape of outstanding aural dimensions that can easily stand alone as a listening experience.

[Still, Yet, Again is] a highly evocative and absorbing
work, at times dark and moody, at others fiercely aggressive but always interesting. It was...able to flow effortlessly between the speakers to fill the hall with its drones and its crashings, or drift softly around the audience. 8-and-a-half minutes of this just wasn't enough!

This work [Sueño Sin Palabras] traversed between the rhythmic impulses of speech and the intuitive navigation of places and spaces without words in dreams. This central idea played itself out in the music through sustained shifting drones (timbraly developed with the use of 1/4 tones), and organically growing rhythmically driving sections. The string quartet writing was very effective as a sound source outside of its traditional melodic (thematic) context...this commission was well placed!

Dr. Antas knows her material and loves it. She is a very enthusiastic teacher and is willing to work with students one on one.

Very positive atmosphere in class...One of the best teachers I’ve had.

Great innovative teaching. Great knowledge of material and ability to relay it to the class.

[The class] absolutely changed the way I thought about music.

She understands people learn differently and cares about helping the students.

[Dr. Antas is] very good at encouraging student participation.

I really enjoyed learning about music technology in this class. It was interesting to use it as a medium for composition and I felt the instructor taught me how to do so in a way I understood—especially because I am not gifted in using technology. The instructor was always willing to make time to hear our concerns or give feedback of a project, which was always very helpful and insightful.

I thought the tricks and skills on learning how to solfege were great and were taught in a positive and reinforcing manner. I can say with confidence that my solfege skills have improved greatly.

[The instructor is] good at giving alternate solutions when students didn’t understand.
I adore how Dr. Antas is a funny and very reasonable person. I felt that I learned a lot for her in this class, and I enjoyed it.