CURRENT POSITION
2004 -present Director of Music/Teaching Professor. NC State University.
Chief Administrator of Music Department
18 ensembles/2000 students on campus of 32,000.
EDUCATION
1993 D.M. in Composition. Minors in Theory and Horn. Indiana University.
1986 M.M. in Composition. Cognate in Conducting. Indiana University.
1983 B.A. in Music. Concentration in Theory. Northeast Missouri State University.
B.M. in Horn Performance.
B.A. in Philosophy and Religion
OTHER UNIVERSITY/ENSEMBLE AFFILIATIONS
Bowling Green State University, Assistant Director, New Music Festival
Duke University, Visiting Guest Composer
Fayetteville State University, Adjunct Faculty
Franklin and Marshall College, Visiting Guest Composer
Indiana University, Assistant Director, New Music Ensemble
Lenoir-Rhyne College, Composer-in-Residence
Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Composer-in-Residence
North Carolina State University, Composer-in-Residence
Saint Augustine's College, Adjunct Faculty
Shaw University, Adjunct Faculty
Truman State University, Visiting Guest Composer
University of Hawaii, Assistant Professor of Composition
University of North Texas, Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition
University of Southern Maine, Assistant Professor of Composition
Vanderbilt University, Visiting Guest Composer
Wake Chamber Players, Composer-in-Residence
Western Piedmont Symphony, Composer-in-Residence
HONORS
2009 First Prize, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Music Composition.
1999 Award Winner, North Carolina Arts Council Music Composition Fellowship.
1998 First Prize, Franklin and Marshall Mu Upsilon Sigma Band Composition Prize.
1997 Award Winner, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts Artist Award.
1993 Award Winner, Moore Foundation First Triennial Opera Composition Prize.
1991 First Prize, Franklin and Marshall Christensen Prize for civic orchestra works.
1988 First Prize, NACUSA Tenth Annual Young Composers' Competition.
1982 First Prize, Chicago Brass Quintet Composition Contest.
RESIDENCIES
2008 Ucross. Residency in the artists’ colony outside Sheridan, WY.
2000 The MacDowell Colony. Residency in the artists' colony at Peterborough, NH.
1998 Yaddo. Residency in the artists' colony at Saratoga Springs, NY.
1997 Ernest Bloch Composers' Symposium. Seminars with Donald Erb.
1995 Atlantic Center for the Arts. Seminars with Donald Erb.
1989 June in Buffalo Festival. Seminars with Erb, Ferneyhough, Rands, Sollberger.
1987 Wellesley Composers' Conference. Seminars with Boykan, Imbrie, Davidovsky.