Arlan N. Schultz is a Canadian composer, music educator, and music technologist whose work explores ritual, memory, loss, transcendence, and the expressive potential of spatial sound. He is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Lethbridge, where he teaches composition, music theory, and digital audio arts. He completed a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California, San Diego, as a Kurt Weill Fellow. His composition teachers include Michael Matthews, Brian Cherney, Roger Reynolds, Chinary Ung, and Brian Ferneyhough.

Schultz’s music has been commissioned and performed by the Penderecki String Quartet, National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Quasar Saxophone Quartet, the Stuttgart Wind Quintet, Louise Bessette, János Négyesy, Aleksandra Panasik, and numerous other Canadian ensembles. His awards include the BMI Award, Godfrey Ridout Award, Robert Fleming Prize, and second prize in the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg. His String Quartet No. 2 was nominated for the Grawemeyer Award.

His recent practice integrates acoustic composition, immersive audio, and real-time gestural control. He is the founder and President of AuraWave Technologies, developer of the AuraWand, a gestural controller for spatial audio. His 64-channel work …farewell, world of flowers… premiered at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (McGill University) in Montreal in April, 2026, extends spatialization into an active dimension of musical performance and interactive chamber music.