Colin Kemper is a composer, performer, and educator. His compositional interests are multifaceted; particularly, his art is concerned with matters pertaining to mental wellness, emotional intimacy and vulnerability, family dynamics, and community. He is interested in collaborative endeavors involving notated music, electronic, electro-acoustic, popular song, theater, video games, film, dance, screendance, and multimedia installation. He studied music composition with Maxwell Dulaney, C.P. First, and Amir Zaheri. 

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​Colin's artistic endeavors have received national and international recognition; he is a Parma Artist on the Ravello Records Label, which released their album, Mind and Machine Vol. 5, and featured two of his compositions: I am all that is here, I and Inquiry into the nature of the warm asphalt beneath my feet with lines lining things up. Maestro Ransom Wilson and the Huxford Symphony Orchestra recently commissioned and premiered his piece, Covid. Colin was also recognized as a finalist in the American Prize for his choral work, And here, we keep the most bright things., and semi-finalist for the screendance, Dream State. Colin's Buffalo, for solo piano, premiered at the College Music Society's national conference. He has been invited as a guest artist at several academic institutions, including Duquesne University, South Dakota State University, and Tulane University. 

Colin's collaborations in screendance have been recognized at various festivals, including the San Souci Screen Dance Festival in Boulder, Colorado, the New Orleans International Screen Dance Festival, Frame X Frame Dance Film Festival in Houston, Texas, the Modco Dance Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Lift Off Film Festival in Los Angeles, California. He recently collaborated with choreographer, Kate Fleming, on a live performance of Side Effects May Include commissioned by Sanspointe Dance Company.