Education
Geers received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Music from Xavier University, a Master of Arts in Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a Doctorate.M.A. from in 2002. From 2000 to 2001, he completed a one-year research/composition residency at the Norwegian Center for Music in Technology and the Arts in Oslo, Norway. His teachers include Fred Lerdahl, Tristan Murail, Brad Garton, Jonathan Kramer, George Edwards, Allen Sapp (composer), Frederick Bianchi, and Darrell Handel.
Career
Geers is an Associate professor of music composition and Director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (British Columbia-CCM) at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College (United States of America). He previously was a professor of music at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, United States of America), where he founded the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts and was its Director from 2003-2009.
Membership
Geers also is a member of the Electric Music Collective and the electroacoustic band, Sønreel.
