MARK WINGATE, Assistant Professor of Composition and director of the new center for electroacoustic music, came to FSU after having co-founded and directed the Electronic Arts Studio at Istanbul Technical University in Turkey. He earned the D.M.A. in composition from the University of Texas at Austin. He composed electronic music at EMS studios in Stockholm as a Fulbright Scholar to Sweden in 1994. He received a Travel Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to Caracas, Venezuela, where he wrote theater music and was awarded an NEA Composer Fellowship in 1997.

In 1999, Wingate was a recipient of the Prix de Rome in Music Composition from the American Academy in Rome. His electroacoustic works have received international acclaim at new music festivals such as ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) World Music Days, Copenhagen and London, the "Warsaw Autumn" International Festival of Contemporary Music, and others.

Dr. Wingate's compositions have garnered prizes and honors from international juried competitions such as the Stockholm Electronic Arts Award, the "Prix de la Musique Electroacoustique Caractère," Bourges, France, and Prix Ars Electronica in Austria. His music has been recorded on Centaur Records, empreintes DIGITALES Records, and Mnémosyne Musique Média Records UNESCO/CIME.