Kevin Ernste is a composer, performer, and teacher of composition and electronic music at Cornell University where he is Director of the Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center. He did graduate work in Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music (MA, PhD). In 2005, he was the Acting Director and lecturer at the Eastman Computer Music Center and Co-director of the ImageMovementSound festival.

Ernste's recent commissions include a new work for the JACK Quartet for 2012, a piece for french horn and electronics for Adam Unsworth (University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor), and a half-evening-length work for viola, percussion, and "unmanned" prepared piano to be premiered in 2013.