TEACHING EXPERIENCE
American Composers' Forum: Los Angeles
Chapter
Music in the
Schools Program, Composition Teacher, Spring 2010.
Taught
composition lessons to Los Angeles area high school students.
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Instructor of
Theory & Aural Skills - Sabbatical Replacement, Fall
2009.
Taught courses
in Music Theory and Aural Skills during Prof. Alexander Rozin's
fall
semester sabbatical leave.
California Lutheran
University
Instructor of
Applied Composition - Sabbatical Replacement, Spring 2009.
Taught
composition lessons to students from the studio of Dr. Mark Spraggins during his
spring semester sabbatical
leave.
University of Southern
California
Assistant
Lecturer, 2007- 2009.
Taught
sophomore aural skills labs and regularly lectured in Dr. Erica Muhl's
sophomore
music
theory class, teaching tonal and post-tonal theory and
analysis.
Camp Ballibay, Pennsylvania
Guitar
Instructor & Lead Counselor, 2005-2006.
Taught private
guitar lessons in rock, folk, classical and jazz styles. Coached rock
bands.
University of Colorado at Boulder,
Department of Continuing Education
Guitar
Instructor, 2002-2004.
Taught private
guitar lessons in rock, folk, classical and jazz styles.
EDUCATION
University of Southern
California
Doctor of
Musical Arts - Composition
Current Status:
"ABD." Date of graduation: May 2010.
Eastman School of
Music
Master of Music
- Composition, May 2006.
University of Colorado at
Boulder
Bachelor of Music w/High Honors -
Composition, May 2004.
Bachelor of Music w/High Honors - Classical
Guitar Performance, May 2004.
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
University of Southern
California
Departmental
Assistant, 2007- 2009.
Managed and
promoted concerts for the composition department, maintained the
Composition Department website, produced and administered USC’s
graduate
entrance
examinations.
Eastman School of Music, University of
Rochester
Departmental
Assistant, 2004-2006.
Managed and
promoted monthly concerts of student works for the Composition Department.
University of Colorado at
Boulder
Research
Assistant, 2002-2004.
Scanned and
archived manuscript of the composer George Crumb for preservation in a digital
archive, as part of
Dr.
Steven Bruns’ research on the composer’s work.
American Music Research
Center
Scanner &
Archivist, 2003.
Scanned and
archived early 20th Century ragtime score for preservation in a digital archive.
PUBLICATIONS
VP Music
Media, Rome,
Italy
Publication of
a composition, “Four” for guitar quartet. 2006.
www.vpmusicmedia.com
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2010 Society of Composers, Inc.
Region VIII Conference
University of
Puget Sound
Performance of
"Piano Quartet no. 1" by Brave New Works. March 2010.
California Lutheran
University
Post Modern LA
New Music Concert
Panel
participant and performance of “Flatiron” for solo guitar. April
2008.
University of Nevada at Las
Vegas
N.E.O.N. -
Nevada Encounters of New Music
Performance of
“Actions & Resonances,” for solo piano. February 2008.
University of Nebraska at
Kearney
2007 New Music
Festival
Performance of
“Actions & Resonances,” for solo piano. April 2007.
2005 Society of Composers, Inc. Region
VIII Conference
University of
Montana
Performance of
“Triple Sonata,” for three cellos. October 2005.
FESTIVALS
Chamber Music Conference and
Composer's Forum of the East
Bennington
College
Composition Fellow.
Participating student and performance of a composition commissioned for the
festival:
"Fall Color".
August 2009.
Aspen Music Festival and
School
Participating
student and performance of a composition commissioned for the festival,
“The Moments
in
Between,” for
woodwind quintet. Summer 2008.
Bowdoin International Music
Festival
Participating student and
performance of “Three Sketches,” for flute and clarinet.
Summer
2003.
GUEST LECTURESHIPS
West Chester University of
Pennsylvania
Guest
Lecturer. Presented two compositions, "Banging(,) Pots &
Pans" for two marimbas and "Wanderings of the
Mind While Attempting to Ruminate
on a Painting of Dali" for orchestra for discussion with the composition
studio. October
2009.
Pepperdine
University
Guest Lecturer. Presented two
compositions, "Wanderings of the Mind While Attempting to Ruminate on
a
Painting of Dali" for
orchestra and "Flatiron" for guitar for discussion with the composition
studio. January 2009.
OTHER
PERFORMANCES
Synchromy
Performance of "Flatiron " at the ASTO Museum of Art
in Los Angeles. April 2010.
San Francisco Community Music
Center
Performance of
"Actions & Resonances" at the 7th Annual Festival of
Contemporary Music. August 2009.
Los Angeles Percussion
Quartet
Provided
electronic music for aleatoric passages of the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet’s
performance of Istvan
Marta’s “A Dollhouse Story.” 2009-2010 Season.
What's Next: The Los Angeles Composers'
Project
University of
Southern California
Performance of
"Piano Quartet no. 1." June 2009.
Guitar:
Original Music for Guitar
Fisher
Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Performance of "Flatiron." April 2009.
Quintet Attacca - Center for Chicago
Programs
Lake Forest
College
Performance of
"The Moments in Between" for wind quintet. March 2009.
University of Southern
California
Performances of
“Wanderings of the Mind While Attempting to Ruminate on a Painting of
Dali” by the USC
Symphony, as well as “Two Autumns” by the USC Contemporary Music
Ensemble. February 2009.
Washington University
Performance of “Actions & Resonances,” for solo piano. March
2007.
HONORS
& AWARDS
University of Southern
California
Jimmy McHugh
Composition Prize. 2009.
Phi Kappa Phi Honor
Society
Inducted
2008.
Eastman School of
Music
Louis Lane
Prize for Excellence in Composition. 2006.
University of Colorado at
Boulder
Outstanding
Graduating Student. 2004.
Phi Kappa Lambda Honor
Society
Inducted
2004.
University of Colorado at
Boulder
Howard Waltz
Music Scholarship, 1st Composer Recipient. 2003.
University of Colorado at
Boulder
Outstanding
Freshman of the Year. 2001.
University of Kansas, KU Jazz
Festival
Outstanding
Jazz Soloist. 1999.
Missouri PTA, Arts
Competition
1st Place in
State, Music Composition Category. 1998.