EDUCATION
The Graduate Center, CUNY – PhD in Composition
Thesis: "Alternate Pitch Structures in the Music of Milton Babbitt"
Advisor: Joseph Straus; Composition Advisor: Jeff Nichols
Schenker Studies: Poundie Burstein and Bill Rothstein
The Juilliard School – BM and MM in Composition
Composition: Samuel Adler and Milton Babbitt
Double Bass: Homer Mensch
Teaching Fellowship: taught under guidance of Mary Anthony Cox
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Humboldt State University
Visiting Faculty
The Juilliard School
Pre-College Division Faculty and Summer Percussion Seminar Faculty
Hunter College
Adjunct Lecturer and Graduate Teaching Fellow
Queens College, Aaron Copland School of Music
Adjunct Lecturer and Graduate Teaching Fellow
SELECTED WORKS
I Hear a Voice (2013)
Composers Alliance
Soprano, Viola, Piano
Death and Becoming (2012)
Doctor Faustus
Soprano, Piano
Chamber Symphony (2011)
CUNY Contemporary Music Ensemble
Transitory Music (2010)
Transit Ensemble
Clarinet, Vibraphone, Piano, Violin, Cello,
Broken Consortini (2009)
Cygnus Ensemble
Flute, Oboe, 2 Guitars, Violin, Cello
Coming Together (2008)
Cultures in Harmony
Flute, Violin, Cello
Seven Dwarved Dances (2007)
New York Miniaturist Ensemble
Clarinet, Violin, Cello
Exordium (2007)
Juilliard Orchestra
The Princess and the Pea (2006)
Newburyport Chamber Music Festival
Violin, Cello, Narrator
String Trio (2006)
Second Instrumental Unit
PUBLICATIONS AND AWARDS
“The Babbittian Question” in Music Theory Spectrum 34/1(2012)
CUNY Graduate Center’s Robert Starer Award for Vitulatory Strains (2010)
Juilliard Orchestra Composition Competition Winner for Exordium (2007)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Twelve-tone and other non-tonal music, especially questioning the regulating role of the series and other normative structures
J.S. Bach’s counterpoint, especially the harmonic complications resulting from invertible counterpoint
Wagner’s operas, especially Schenkerian models for large-scale voice leading
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Double Bass:
Performed in the Juilliard Orchestra: 2004 - 2006
Juilliard Opera: The Bartered Bride, L'Enfant Prodigue, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
2005 Focus Festival: music of the Soviet avante-garde
Dozens of world premieres
Tenor voice:
Juilliard Chorus: performed in Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall
Technology:
Fluent with Csound, Finale, Pro Tools, Sibelius, Variations Audio Timeliner
Knowledge of html, java, and python programming languages
Microsoft Office Suite