PRIMARY AWARDS
• First Prize - Concorso Internazionale "Luigi Russolo" – Italy, 2001
• Second Prize - "Pierre Schaeffer" International Competition of Computer Music Composition – Italy, 1999
• Mention Award - Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art Competition – France, 2000
• Honorable Mention - EAR 01 International Competition of Electroacoustic Music Composing – Hungary, 2001
• Honorable Mention - Bourges International Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art Competition – France, 2003
• Composition Prize (live-acts category) - Sonic Circuits International Electro Music Festival – USA, December 2002
• Composition Prize (solo electroacoustic category) - Sonic Circuits International Electro Music Festival (American Composers Forum) – USA, October 1999
• ASCAPLUS Award – ASCAP – USA, 2005-2011
• Sounding Out California Award - San Francisco, San Francisco CA 2008
• Grand Prize - Sigma Alpha Iota Composition Competition – USA, 1995
JURY ACTIVITIES
• Jury member of International Computer Music Conference, Canada 2009
• Jury member of National PTA Reflections Program Musical Composition, California,
2007
• Jury member of Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States, USA 2005
• Jury member of International Computer Music Conference, USA 2004
• Jury member of Cache and Times Play, Canada 2002 – 2008
POST-DOCTORAL STUDY
• IRCAM Summer Course, Paris, France, June 2003
EDUCATION
• D.M.A. Major in Composition; minor in Music Theory - University of North Texas – December 2001
• M.M. Major in Piano Performance; minor in Composition - University of North Texas – August 1995
• B.M. Major in Piano Performance; minor in Music Theory - University of North Texas – December 1992
PRINCIPAL TEACHERS
• Composition:
Phil Winsor - University of North Texas
Martin Mailman - University of North Texas
Mario Lavista - Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida
Bernard Rands - Advanced Composition Master Class, Aspen Music
Festival and School, Colorado
Martin Matalon – IRCAM, France
• Piano:
Joseph Banowetz, University of North Texas
Pamela Mia Paul, University of North Texas
Steven Harlos, University of North Texas
Yukie Oda, Tokyo
• Music Theory:
Graham Phipps, University of North Texas
Gene Cho, University of North Texas
COMMISSIONS
• Burning for iChamber Ensemble and dance movement - Arizona State, March 7-10, 2002
• Stroke of a Wing for "Dream Zone" label, 2002, France
PUBLICATION
• Scores:
- aROUND tHE cORNER for percussion quartet – C. Alan Publications, 1996 - USA
- Cityscapes for solo Marimba - C. Alan Publication, 1999 - USA
• Recordings:
- After the Summer Rain for piano and tape – Corey Jane Holt's solos CD (Blue Pearl Records), Fall 2002 – USA
- aROUND tHE cORNER - Bonk Contemporary Music Festival label, 2002 – USA
- Burning – Centaur Records (CRC2626) – USA
- Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly - Deep Wireless II Radio Art
compilation CD - Canada
- Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly – International Computer Music Conference 2001 Cuba – USA
- Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly - Sonic Circuits VII (Innova Recording label, 116) - October 1999, USA
- Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly - Pierre Schaeffer International
Computer Music Competition, 2000 - Italy
- Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly - Bonk Contemporary Music Festival label USA
- Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly - Acousmatica 10th anniversary and CD – 4èmes rencontres internationales de compositeurs de musique acousmatique – France
- Summer Rain – Dawn – SEAMUS Volume 11, 2002 - USA
- Summer Rain – Dusk - The 23rd Concorso Internazionale "Luigi Russolo" CD for prizewinners – 2001 – Italy
- Stroke of a Wing for tape - Dream Zone Label – February 2002 - France
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Orange County High School of the Arts, Santa Ana, CA – Fall 2005 – 2008
- Courses taught:
AP Music Theory (College Freshman and Sophomore level)
Eartraining
- Composition
• Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA – Fall 2006
- Course Taught:
Music Theory I (Diatonic)
Music Theory II (Chromatic)
Eartraining
• St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina - Chair and tenure-track Assistant Professor of the Department of Music, Fall, 2000 - 2003
- Courses taught:
Introduction to Music Technology
Electroacoustic Music Seminar
Contemporary Music
Music in the United States after 1945
Music Appreciation
Music Theory
Music Fundamentals
Applied Piano
Class Piano
- Responsibilities as Chair of the Department of Music includes:
Designing catalogue
Advising students
Grant proposal making
Budgeting
Purchasing materials and equipment for the department
Maintaining Macintosh workstations
Organizing music concert and inviting composers/performers
Committee service (International Program)
• University of North Texas, Denton, TX - 1996-2000
- Teaching Fellow, 1997 - Spring 2000
- Composition for undergraduate students
- Theory class (under the composition division) on the Twentieth-century Music technique and literature
- Teaching Assistant 1997-98 - assistant to the Director of New Music
Ensemble
- Teaching Assistant for Theatre Manager at the Center for the Experimental
Music and Intermedia at UNT, 1996-98
GUEST LECTURER
• University of California Santa Barbara sponsored by CREATE (Dr. Curtis Roads) – December 1, 2000
SELECTED COMPOSITION RECOGNITION
• California E.A.R. Unit at Red Cat, Disney Hall, Los Angeles – November 7, 2006
•American Composers Forum in Los Angeles – October 22, 2006
• Seoul International Computer Music Festival at Seoul Arts Center, Korea – November 2005
• International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona Spain – September 2005
• Deep Wireless, Canada - May 2005
• Women in New Music Festival, California State University Fullerton - March 2005
•International Computer Music Conference 2004, University of Miami, Florida – November 2004
• 4th Annual Electroacoustic Music Festival, Santiago, Chile – October 2004
• Radio Beethoven in Santiago, Chile - July 2004
• Center for Experimental Music and Media 40th Anniversary, University of North Texas - April 19, 2004
• “Celebrating Women in Arts, University of Montana – November 19, 2003
• Acoustic Frontiers airplay (CKCU-FM) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – November 3, 2003
• Bonk Festival of New Music, Tampa – March 3 – 9, 2003
• Ninth Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology, Connecticut College - February 27-March 1, 2003
• Movie: Forbidden Planet Plus Multimedia Works by Women Composers, Florida International University - November 14, 2002
• Birmingham Southern College, Alabama – Nov. 11 2002
• EuCuE XXI series, Concordia University Electroacoustics, Montréal, Canada – November 8, 2002
• International Society of Contemporary Music World Music Days 2002 Radio Television Hong Kong, Republic of China - October 15-17, 2002
• The Virtual Concert Hall, London, England - Sept. 28, 2002
• Luigi Russolo Competition Award Concert, Italy - September 2002
• Futura: Festival international d'art acousmatique, France - August 2002
• Electrophonie at the Royal Saltworks of Arc et Senans, Doubs, France, July 20, 2002
• Synthèse Music Festival - Bourges, France, May 31 – June 9 2002
• Hessischer Rundfunk: Crossover am Montag: E-Werk, Germany – April 22 2002
• MAXIS Symposium at Sheffield Hallam University, England - April 12-14 2002
• Dutch National Radio, The Netherlands, March 17, 2002
• Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, March 7 – 10, 2002
• Bonk Festival of New Music, Tampa, Florida - March 5-9, 2002
• Le bruit de la neige (Noise of Snow) Brise-glace, France, February 14 2002
• Femmes Branchées du festival Les HTMLLES, Broadcast through CIBL 101.5 FM les lundis de 20h30 à 22h00, Montréal, Canada – February 11, 2002
• 20th Anniversary Concert Series: International Month of Electroacoustics Concert Concordia University - Montéal, Canada - Nov. 8 2001
• Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2001 – South Korea, November 2001
• International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) - Habana, Cuba, September 18 - 22 2001
• Federation Music Festival, Melbourne, Australia, September 2001
• Aventures d’un paysage Futura 2001 - Crest, France, August13-19 2001
• MúSICA13 9th New Music and Sound Art Festival, Asociación Cultural Côclea, Camallera Spain - August 3 2001
• Ltiomericky Koren Alternative Music Festival (Part VII) – Litomerice, Czech Republic, July 5-7 2001
• 4e rencontres internationales de compositeurs de musique acousmatique, “Nuit de la musique acousmatique” – UNESCO, France, June 21 2001
• Musica Nova Sofia 2001 - Sofia, Bulgaria, June 15-20 2001
• Synthèse Music Festival - Bourges, France, June 8-17 2001
• American Music Center Webcast - May 23 - June 23 2001
• National Percussion Ensemble Festival (part of the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival) April 5-7, 2001, Indianapolis, IN
• Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) National Conference - Syracuse, New York, March 29-31 2001
• 10th Florida International Electroacoustic Music Festival - Gainesville, Florida, March 29-31 2001
• 10th Bonk Festival of New Music - Tampa, Florida - March 2001
• Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States National Conference - Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 1-3 2001
• Quart Festival D’Art Sonor: Zeppelin 2001 - Barcelona, Spain, February 13-18 2001
• Inner Space, Croatia, February 2001
• DIEM: Cinema for the Ear, Aarhus, Denmark - January 22 2001
• Sonic Residues 02 - Melbourne, Australia, December 2000
• Seoul International Computer Music Festival 2000 - Korea, November 2000
• EuCuE 2000-2001 Series XIX, Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Montréal, Canada – November 2000
• Euromicro 2000: workshop on Multimedia and Telecommunications - Maastricht, The Netherlands, September 5-7 2000
• XIII CIM 2000 - Colloquium on Musical Informatics, L’Aquila, Italy, September 2-5 2000
• Cultural Exchange Station in Tabor (CESTA), - Czech Republic - August 2000
• Acousmatica 10th anniversary CD - 4èmes rencontres internationales de compositeursde musique acousmatique - France, August 2000
• Logos Foundation - Belgium, August 2000
• “EARS WIDE OPEN - with Carl Stone”94.1fm kpfa, Berkeley, CA - August 13 2000
• micro Festival (musique Acousmatique) - San Francisco, California, July 2000
• VII Brazilian Symposium for Computer Music - Brazil, July 2000
• Australian Computer Music Association Conference “interFACES” - Australia, July 2000
• Percussion recital at Nazareth College of Rochester - NY, April 2000
• “Art of the States” (radio program), Boston, MA, broadcast in the 48 countries worldwide – April 2000
• Shy Anne Sound and Video Festival - Tacoma, WA, April 2000
• 9th Florida International Computer Music Festival - Florida, April 2000
• Percussion Recital at Transvania University, April 2000
• “Vltava” on Czech Radio, March 2000
• First Conference on Music Technology in the Third Millennium in Malaysia – March 2000
• Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States 2000 National Conference – Denton, TX, March 2000
• 9th Bonk Festival of New Music- St. Petersburg/Tampa, Florida, March 2000
• Musica Nova, Vancouver Co-op Radio - Vancouver, Canada, February 16, 2000
• “Foldover” radio program, February 2000
• University of Glasgow - UK, January 2000
• Cycle de concerts de musique par ordinateur 1999/2000 Universiti Paris 8 - Pairs, France, December 1999
• NWEAMO (Northwest Electroacoustic Music Organization) - October 1999
• First Iteration, Conference on Generative System in the Electronic Arts, Manash University - Melbourne, Australia - December 1-3 1999
• "Beckoning" concert series at Stanford University - 1999
• Women in Music: A Celebration of Hundred Years Conference at Ohio University – Athens, Ohio, Oct 24 - 26 1997
• Aspen Music Festival “Contemporary Music Concert” - Aspen, Colorado, 1996
• Atlantic Center for the Arts, an associate studying with Mario Lavista - New Smyrna Beach, Florida, March 3-23 1996
• Semifinalist for the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the College Music Society – 1995
GRANT AND SCHOLARSHIPS
• Subito Grant American Composers Forum Los Angeles - 2005
• Faculty Travel Grant, St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Spring and Summer - 2001
• General Academic Scholarship, UNT - 2000
• Graduate Travel Grants, UNT - 1996, 98, 99
• Oscar and Kaywin Blankemeyer Scholarship, UNT - 1999
• Shao Pei Yang Memorial Scholarship, UNT - 1998
• Scholarship for attending the conference, Women in Music: A Celebration of Hundred Years at Ohio University, Oct 24 - 26, 1997
• President's Council Scholarship, UNT - 1997
• Beta Alpha Rho Beta Scholarship, UNT - 1997
• Charn Uswachoke Music Scholarship, UNT - 1997
• Aspen Music Festivals and School, Scholarship Recipient for the Advanced Composition Master Class studied with Bernard Rands, Aspen Colorado - 1996
• Robert Colon McSween Memorial Scholarship, UNT - 1996
• David M. Schimmel Memorial Composition Scholarship, UNT - 1996
• Craig B. Raupe Scholarship, UNT, - 1996
• Lucille Murchinson Graduate Scholarship sponsored by Women's Professional League, UNT - 1995
• Marceau C. Myers Memorial Scholarship, UNT - 1995
• Merrill Ellis Memorial Composition Scholarship, UNT - 1993-95
WORKS
• (untitled) for percussion and computer-realized sound - in progress
• (untitled) for harpsichord and computer-realized sound - in progress
• Burning for chamber ensemble (Flutes, Violin, Cello and Piano), computer and dance (2002)
• Stroke of a Wing for tape, (2001)
• Summer Rain – Dusk for tape (2001)
• After the Summer Rain for piano and computer (2000-2001)
• Summer Rain -Dawn for tape (2000)
• A Short Sketch for Summer Rain for tape (2000)
• Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly for tape (1999)
• La difficulté d'être for trombone and tape (1998)
• Kiss for three women voices or women's choir (1998)
• Odradek for chamber ensemble (1997)
• Cityscapes for solo marimba (1997)
• Voice in the Distance for tape (1996)
• Liking Things for 2 C trumpets, 2 trombones, and 2 percussionists (1996)
• Music for A.C.A. for piano and crystal glasses (1996)
• Cosmographia Phantastica for orchestra (1995)
• Orpheus Suite for solo harp (1995)
• aROUND tHE cORNER for percussion quartet (1995)
• Moment Crystal for tape (1994)
• Glass Vision for tape (1994)
• Geode for flute, piano and percussion (1994, revised in 1996)
• Dream Palette II for tape (1993)
• Dream Palette for chamber ensemble (1993)
• Tristesse de la lune for flute, clarinet, violin, and violoncello (1992)
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
• Member, American Music Center since 2003
• Member, American Composers Forum since 2002
• Member, International Computer Music Association 1999 - 2005
• Member, ASCAP since 1996
• Member, Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society since 1994
REFERECES: Available upon request