Curriculum vitae

• Education
• Composition (links to composition page)
• Honors and Awards
• Publications
• Teaching
• Performance activities
• Campus and Community Service

Education

• Ph.D. in Composition, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1986. Dissertation: Fair Seed-time for tenor and orchestra [original composition] and The Player Piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow: An Analysis of Selected Studies.
• M.A. in Composition, Brooklyn College, 1977. Thesis composition: String Quartet No. 2.
• B.A. and B.Mus. in Composition, University of Washington, 1974.

Honors and Awards

• Composition Fellow, Ernest Bloch Music Festival Composers Symposium, Newport, Oregon, June 29-July 5, 2003.
• 1996-97 Libra Professorship, University of Maine at Farmington.
• National Symphony Orchestra commission to a Maine composer to write a chamber work for premiere at the Kennedy Center, 1995.
• UMF Distinguished Faculty Award, May 1993.
• Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, 1989.
• American Composers Alliance/Town Hall Commissioning Award (to write a work for the Manhattan Marimba Quartet for premiere in New York City's Town Hall), 1989.
• MacDowell Colony Fellow, August 1985.
• Election to membership in the American Composers Alliance, 1983.
• Composer’s Fellowship, "American Music for String Quartet" Conference, Charles Ives Center for American Music, New Milford, CT, August 1980.
• Composer’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1979.
• New York Composers’ Forum concert, December 1976.
• Charles Ives Fellowship, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1973.
• First prize, Seattle Music and Art Foundation Composition Contest, 1969.
• Several grants from Meet the Composer.

Publications

• Music Review: "Conlon Nancarrow: Sonatina for Piano and Sonatina for Piano, 4 hands," NOTES: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 47:3 (March 1991), 964-66.
• The Player Piano Music of Conlon Nancarrow: An Analysis of Selected Studies. I.S.A.M. Monograph No. 26. Brooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1988.
• "Nancarrow, Conlon," The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 4 vols., ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1986, III, 319-20.
• "Suderburg, Robert," The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 4 vols., ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1986, IV, 330-31.

Teaching

• Professor of Music, University of Maine at Farmington.  Member of faculty since 1982.
• Currently teaching half-time at Bates College (composition and college orchestra conductor) and half-time at UMF (music theory, history of jazz, and computer music composition).
• Other subjects taught over the years have included music appreciation, music fundamentals, twentieth-century music, and, for the UMF Honors Program, musical aesthetics, "Bach and Handel," and "Prokofiev and Shostakovich."
• Graduate assistant and adjunct lecturer, Brooklyn College, 1974-82. 

Performance Activities

• Conductor, Bates College Orchestra, since 2002.
• Conductor, UMF Community Orchestra, 1982-2002, and UMF Band, 1982-99.
• Conductor, several high school music festivals (e.g., District IV Festival), and at Maine Festival.
• Musical director, three Theatre UMF productions (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Man with a Load of Mischief, Side by Side by Sondheim).
• Active cellist and viola da gambist. Member of Holley Trio (with Robert and Nancy Beacham). Have played with Colby Orchestra, Bates Orchestra, Lincoln Arts Festival Pops Orchestra, Portland Symphony (summer 1976), Maine Chamber Ensemble, etc.
• Member, Occasional Chorale, Waterville, ME, 1989-92.
• Public performances and lecture/demonstrations with Australian didjeridu and Laotian khaen.
• Acting experience with Farmington’s Sandy River Players. Roles include Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Clydestone in Miracle: A Christmas Story, and Mordred in Camelot.

Campus and community service

• Chair, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, 1999-2002; also 1994-96.
• Chair of following campus groups and committees:
  • Choral Position Search Committee, Spring 1993.
  • Visual and Performing Arts Peer Committee, 1990-94.
  • Core Committee, 1987-89.
  • Faculty Senate, 1987-89.
• Co-founder and principal organizer of Brown Bag Concert Series with 6-10 concerts per semester since 1984. I have performed on over fifty Brown Bag concerts.
• Founder and editor of Beyond Memos, the faculty literary journal. Responsible for design and layout. Published nine issues from 1989 to 1994.
• Member of following campus groups and committees:
  • Honors Council, 1993-99; 1986-88.
  • Catalog Revision Committee, beginning Fall 1995.
  • Task Force on Advising, Campus Roundtable, beginning Spring 1995.
  • Dean of Arts and Sciences Search Committee, 1994-95.
  • Campus Plan Committee, 1991-93.
  • Academic Planning Committee, 1990-92.
  • Swim UMF Committee, 1990-91.
  • Catalog Committee, 1989-90.
  • Academic Excellence Committee, 1987-89.
  • Task Force on Teacher Education Governance Structure, Summer 1987.
  • Academic Computing Advisory Committee, 1986-87.
  • Library Advisory Committee, 1985-89.
  • Faculty Senate, 1997-99, and secretary, 1983-87.
  • UMF Mission Statement subcommittee, 1983-84.
  • Planning committee for interdisciplinary major in American Studies, 1982-83.
• Major involvement in selection and purchase of new piano. Principal coordinator of Falcone piano benefit series, 1989-90.
• Director of two Early Music Workshops, Summer 1985 and Summer 1986. Taught viola da gamba, coached ensembles, performed on evening concerts.