Curriculum vitae
- 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.
- 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.
- Composers
Fellowship, "American Music for String Quartet"
Conference, Charles Ives Center for American Music, New
Milford, CT, August 1980.
- Composers
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.
- 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.
- 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 Farmingtons Sandy River Players. Roles include
Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady,
Clydestone in Miracle: A Christmas
Story, and Mordred in Camelot.
- 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.
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