Pedro Ribeiro Kroger Junior

Pedro Kröger (1974, Brazil) is a Professor at the School of Music of the Federal University at Bahia were he received a Doctor of Musical Arts and a Bachelor of Music degree in composition. He won some prizes in composition competitions, including the First prize at the XIII Apresentação dos Compositores da Bahia, Second prize at the II National Competition of Composition, second prize at the VII National Competition of Composition, first prize at the II National Competition of Composition "City of Rio de Janeiro", first prize at the VI National Competition of Composition. His works (both acoustic and electroacoustic) have been performed in Central and South America (Brazil, Colombia, Cuba) and Europe (Vienna, Norway, Italy). Mr. Kröger was an Assistant Professor at Federal University at Bahia in 1998 and 1999 teaching Composition, Harmony and Counterpoint, History of Music, and Musical Appreciation. He has given lectures and speeches on composition, analysis, tuning systems, and computer music. He is the co-editor and founder of ICTUS, the graduate music journal at Federal University at Bahia.

é Professor Adjunto da Escola de Música da UFBA e Doutor em Composição pela Universidade Federal da Bahia/University of Texas at Austin. Em 2009 Dr. Kroger fez pós-doutorado na Universidade de Stanford. Ele tem ganhado diversos concursos de composição em âmbito nacional e internacional e é autor do livro "Music for Geeks and Nerds"