A composer of chamber, electronic, orchestral and vocal music, Michael S. Rothkopf has been actively involved in the creation and performance of contemporary music for the last 28 years. Noted for their remarkable sensuousness and their integration of music technology, his works have been performed throughout the United States and are published by American Composers Editions. He currently teaches graduate level composition and career enhancement courses as well as undergraduate and graduate music technology courses at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has served on the music review board of MERLOT, an international repository of online learning tools for higher education since 2000 and is a founding editor for the Journal for Online Learning and Teaching. He is currently involved with the development of Internet 2 and has formed a network of music schools and conservatories around the country. Michael Rothkopf currently serves as President of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont now embarking on its third season. He has served as Music Director of the Ariel Contemporary Chamber Music Ensemble for 1982-1986 and as the Executive Director of the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music U.S. Section from 1989-91 as well as the New York Guild of Composers from 1988-1991. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Orchestral Association, Yaddo, Carnegie Hall and Columbia University. His principal composition teachers have been Normand Lockwood and Mario Davidovsky. Other composition teachers include Jack Beeson, Susan Blaustein, George Edwards and Chou Wen-Chung, he studied counterpoint and analysis with Jacques-Louis Monod and double bass with Harry Safstrom.