Curriculum Vitae

Education

• University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, MN
  Master of Arts in Music Composition
  1989–1991
  Composition with Dominick Argento
• New England Conservatory of Music
  Boston, MA
  Enrolled in Bachelor of Music Program in Composition
  1984–1989
  Composition with Malcom Peyton and Alan Fletcher
• University of Michigan Honors College
  Ann Arbor, MI
  Bachelor of Arts in English, High Honors
  1980–1984
  Composition with William Bolcom
  Honors Thesis: String Trio based on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
• Reed College
  Portland, OR
  Transfer Student
  1982–1983

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Teaching Experience

• Harvard University
  Cambridge, MA
  Non-Resident Music Tutor, chamber music coach and composition teacher
  2022–present
• Roxbury Latin School
  Boston, MA
  Director of Chamber Music
  2012–present
• New England Conservatory of Music
  Boston, MA
  Preparatory School and Continuing Education Composition Faculty
  2010–present
• Private Composition Studio
  Somerville, MA
  1991–present
• Northeastern University
  Boston, MA
  Adjunct Composition Faculty
  2008–2011
• Longy School of Music
  Cambridge, MA
  Graduate, Undergraduate, and Preparatory Composition Faculty
  1991–2009
  Studio incorporated private lessons and regular group meetings focused on intensive year-long composer/performer collaborations.
  Designed and taught Composition for Performers.
  Founded and directed Young Performers Composition Program.
  Redesigned Young Performers Theory/Solfège curriculum.
• Powers Music School
  Belmont, MA
  Composition and Theory Faculty
  1993–1996

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Affiliations

• WordSong
  Co-Founder and Artistic Director
  2008–present
• Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society
  Composer in Residence
  2016–2017
• Boston Classical Orchestra/Boston Arts Academy
  Composer in Residence
  Spring 2010
• St. Botolph Club
  Associate Artist Member
  2004–2007
• Composers in Red Sneakers
  President 2002–2007
  Member 1994–2009
• Project Zero
  Harvard Graduate School of Education
  1991–1992

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Commissions

• Classical Uprising and Temple Beth El
  Peace Cantata for 3 Soloists and String Orchestra (2024)
• Sheffield Chamber Players and WordSong
  “The Second Coming” for Voice and String Quartet (2023)
• Andrew Mark, Boston Conservatory
  Seasons from a Poet’s Life for Cello Quartet (2023)
• Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society
  Overture to the Moon and Stars for Chamber Orchestra (2022)
  Concerto for Viola and String Orchestra for Kim Kashkashian (2017)
• New England Philharmonic
  Goodnight Moon for String Quintet (2019)
• Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
  Of Echoes and Dreams Overture (In Memory of Larry Hill) (2018)
• WordSong
  “Recuerdo” for Voice and Piano (2018)
  String Quartet No. 1 (2017)
  “Dawn” for Voice and Piano (2015)
  “Laughing Together” for Voice and Piano (2012)
  Dona nobis pacem for SSAA or SATB Chorus (2011)
  “I Like to Play with Him” for Voice and Piano (2011)
  “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” for Voice and Piano (2010)
  “in Just–” for Voice, Cello, and Marimba (or Voice and Piano) (2010)
  “My Papa’s Waltz” for Voice and Piano (2010)
  “Harlem” for Voice and Piano (2009)
  “The Tyger” For Voice and Piano (2008)
  An Unexpected Encounter for Solo Piano (2008)
• Florestan Recital Project
  “Recuerdo” for Voice and Piano (2018)
• Scott Woolweaver, viola
  Elegy for Viola and Piano (2017)
• Roxbury Latin School
  “Anthem for Doomed Youth” for TTBB Chorus and Piano (2016)
• Triple Helix
  Piano Trio No. 2 (2015)
  Simple Grace for Soprano, Violin, Cello, and Piano (2010)
• Rivers School Conservatory
  Piano Trio No. 2 for Triple Helix (2015)
  Musings (Musette I & II) for Solo Piano (2014)
  Elegy for String Sextet (2013)“Let us Suppose our old friend the railway carriage to be traveling along…” for Solo Piano (2009)
• Rockport Music
  Party Peekaboo for Flute, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Vibraphone (2014)
• Sarasa Chamber Ensemble
  The Crucifixion for Voice, Violin, Cello, and Harpsichord (2013)
• Joan Smith
  Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos, Part I for Voice, Violin, and Piano (2011)
  Some Thoughts on Good and Evil for Piano Trio for the Claremont Trio (2009)
• Rhonda Rider, cello
  My Grandmother’s Ashes (and a Balloon) (2011)
• A Far Cry
  An Unexpected Encounter (2010)
• Sarah Pelletier, soprano, and Triple Helix
  Simple Grace for Soprano, Violin, Cello, and Piano (2010)
• Boston Classical Orchestra
  In the Forests of the Night (2009)
  Theme and Reverberations for Two Tubas and String Orchestra (2007)
• Mockingbird Trio
  Lullaby for Voice and Viola (2008)
  “A Wren” for Voice and Viola (2004)
• Composers in Red Sneakers
  Child’s Play for Saxophone Quartet (2006)
  “Divine Image” for SSAA or SATB for Tapestry (2004)
• Fromm Foundation/Composers in Red Sneakers
  Child’s Play for Saxophone Quartet (2006)
• World-wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, Inc.
  The Jester, the Artist, and the Little Lion for Alto Saxophone (or Clarinet), Cello, and Piano (2005)
• PALS Children’s Chorus
  The Voice of Isaac An Oratorio for Chorus, Soloists, and Chamber Orchestra (2003)
• Vento Chiaro
  Blue Circles for Woodwind Quintet (2001)
• Naomi Gurt Lind, soprano
  The Emperor’s Rhyme for Voice and Piano Four Hands (2000)
• Longy School of Music
  A Forgotten Place for Orchestra (1998)
  Amid a Crowd of Stars: Prologue and Overture for Chamber Orchestra and Baritone (1993)
• Andover Chamber Players
  Goodnight Moon (1998)
• Andrew Mark and Mark Smith, viola and cello
  The Monkey Who Had No Arms Fable in Three Movements for Viola and Cello (1994)
• Sidney H. Drury
  Dream Pedlary Scene for Voice and Violin (1991)
• Ching-Hsin Hsu for Lone Man Orchestra
  Andante Sostenuto for String Orchestra (1988)
• JAMS
• Alexander Levine
  for the Lydian String Quartet
• Powers Music School
• Dr. Scholl Foundation

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Publications and Recordings

• The Voice of Isaac
  Edition Peters
• The Jester, the Artist, and the Little Lion
  Edition Peters
• Ode to Snow
  PALS Publishing
• My Grandmother’s Ashes (and a Balloon)
  MSR Classics
• Music for the End of Winter
  Ravello Records

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Award, Scholarships, and Grants

• Atlantic Center for the Arts
  Associate Residency
  2005, 2013
• National Association of Teachers of Singing
  Art Song Composition Award
  2004
• Banff Centre for the Arts
  Grant
  1999 and 2001
• Dr. Scholl Foundation
  Grant
  1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2013, 2014
• National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts
  Teaching Award
  1998
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
  Faculty Grant
  1996
• Powers Music School
  Faculty Grant
  1995
• Composers’ Forum of New York
  Guest Composer Grant
  1994
• Bowdoin Summer Music Festival
  Composer Fellowship
  1991
• Aspen Music Festival
  Scholarship
  1988
• New England Conservatory of Music
  Scholarship
  1984
• University of Michigan Honors College
  Thesis Grant
  1984

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Festivals

• Atlantic Music Festival
  Guest Lecturer
  2021
• Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival
  Featured Composer
  2015
• Source Song Festival at MacPhail Center
  2014
• Newburyport Chamber Music Festival
  Guest Lecturer
  2013
• Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival
  Guest Composer
  2013
• Monadnock Music
  Composer in Residence
  2009
• Rockport Chamber Music Festival
  Lecture Series
  2009, 2011, 2014
• The Rivers School Conservatory Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music
  Guest Composer
  2009–present
• CSU Summer Arts: Composer-Performer Collaborative Workshop
  Guest Artist
  2008
• Rockport Chamber Music Festival
  Lecture Series
  2005
• Longy SeptemberFest
  Guest Speaker
  2006, 2007
• Longy SeptemberFest
  Composer
  2000–2006, 1993, 1995, 1997
• Atlantic Center for the Arts
  Residency
  2005, 2013
• Yellow Barn Music Festival
  YAP Guest Faculty
  1999, 2005, 2006
• Banff Centre for the Arts
  Residency
  1999, 2001
• Composers In Red Sneakers/Longy School of Music YP New Music Youth Collaborative Project
  Director
  1998
• Society of Composers National Conference
  Composer
  1995
• Composer/Conductor Institute University of  South Carolina
  Composer
  1992
• Bowdoin Summer Music Festival
  Fellowship Composer
  1991
• Aspen Music Festival
  Composer
  1998

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Courses Taught

Longy School of Music

• Composition Studio Teacher
  Graduate and Undergraduate (1992–2009)
• Composition Seminar
  Graduate and Undergraduate (1996–2009)
• Solfège and Theory Studio Teacher
  Graduate and Undergraduate (1991–2009)
• Composition for Performers
  Designed and Taught (1998–2009)
  Numerous graduate student instrumentalists taking the class changed their majors to composition and many others wrote pieces they performed as part of their graduate recitals.
• Young Performers Composition Program
  Founded and Directed (1992–2009)
  Created intensive year-long collaborations between advanced high school age composers and professional performing ensembles. Collaborators included Longy faculty and artist-in-residence ensembles, a professional choreographer, and numerous professional ensembles from outside the school (including Quartet X, the Hausmann Quartet, Vento Chiaro, and members of A Far Cry). Nearly all students went on to study composition at conservatories and universities and many have pursued professional careers in composition, receiving commissions from major ensembles including the Kronos Quartet, A Far Cry, and the Beaux Arts Trio.
• 20th Century Repertoire and Analysis
  (2000–2001)
• Graduate Theory Review
  (1996–2009)
• Young Performers New Music Ensemble
  Director (1996)
• Young Performers Advanced Theory/Solfège
  (1991–2008)

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Masterclass Teaching

• Atlantic Music Festival
  2021
• Roxbury Latin
  2019, 2020, 2021
• New England Conservatory of Music
  2019
• Tufts University
  2005, 2010, 2017, 2019
• Amherst College
  2019
• Bowdoin College
  2015
• Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival
  2015
• Bard College Conservatory
  2014
• Song Source Festival
  2014
• Southern Methodist University
  2010
• University of Texas at Dallas
  2010
• Tufts University
  2005 and 2010
• Rivers School Conservatory
  2010 and 2013
• University of Miami Frost Music School
  2010
• Emmanuel College
  2009
• California State University Fresno
  2006 and 2009
• California State University Summer Arts
  2008
• Columbia University
  2007
• Yellow Barn Summer Music Festival
  1999, 2005, and 2006
• Manhattanville College
  2006

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List of Works

• Orchestral Music
• Chamber Music
• Solo and Duo Music
• Vocal Music
• Choral Music

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Performance History

• Past Concerts