Raised in a family of professional musicians, JAMES SHEPPARD first received musical training as a performer on trumpet in Omaha, Nebraska before composing became his primary focus. Instruction in composition includes study under a fellowship with Philip Bezanson at the University of Massachusetts (M.M. 1968) and further work with Richard Hervig and Donald Martin Jenni at the University of Iowa (Ph. D. 1975) where he was a Composing and Performing Fellow with the Center for New Music under William Hibbard. Since 1978 James Sheppard has been a member of the music faculty at Miami University where he teaches composition and directs the electronic music studio. Since 1983 the composer has been active as a performer upon electronic wind controllers such as the Electronic Valve Instrument, adding the Morrison Digital Trumpet in 2005. Reviews of his compositions and performances using wind controllers and computer audio resources have appeared in Musical America, Perspectives of New Music, and the International Trumpet Guild Journal. The composer is represented on vinyl recordings by Echo, in Amber and Luminaria on the Opus One label, #126 and by an earlier release, Cat Dreams of Flying on Opus One #85. Another composition Snowfall is recorded on a CD by Michele Gingras for Societe Nouvelle D'Enregistrement SNE-631-CD. Awards given the composer for his music include a Research Challenge Grant in Electronic Music Composition from the State of Ohio, several Individual Artist Fellowships in Composition from the Ohio Arts Council, a Charles Ives Center for American Music Fellowship and several Miami University research and composing appointments and continuing awards from ASCAP. In 2001 he received fellowships for residencies at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, Virginia E-mail: sheppacj@muohio.edu