More detailed c.v. available upon request.
EDUCATION
Columbia University, Doctorate of Musical Arts with distinction, 2011
Principal teachers: Fred Lerdahl, Mario Davidovsky, Fabien Levy (composition)
Lucy Shelton (voice)
Rice University, 1999-2003: Bachelor of Music in composition
Principal teachers: Shih-Hui Chen, Karim Alzand, Anthony Brandt
University of Wisconsin, Madison, summer 2001: Music and Arts in Southern India, Kerala, India
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Smith College • Iva Dee Hiatt Assistant Professor of Music, 2013-present (composition and electronic music)
The Wet Ink Ensemble, 2006-present • Managing Director (2006-2012), vocalist and board member (2012-present)
AWARDS
The American Academy of Arts and Letters • Virgil Thomson Award in Vocal Music, 2016
The American Academy of Arts and Letters • Goddard Lieberson Award, 2013
Koussevitzky Music Foundation • Commissionee, 2012
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation • Fellowship, 2012
Chamber Music America • Chamber Music Commission, 2012
Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund • Winner of annual prize, 2012
ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards • Honrable Mention, 2011
Fromm Music Foundation • Fromm Commission, 2008
The American Academy of Arts and Letters • Charles Ives Scholarship, 2008
Music Theory Society of New York State • Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award, 2008
ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards • Honorable Mention, 2003
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
The Los Angeles Philharmonic •
The Ultimate Poem is Abstract, for soprano and chamber orchestra (2016)
Ogni Suono •
OTOTOI, for two tenor saxophones (2016)
Alarm Will Sound • I Was Here I Was I, opera for five voices and large chamber ensemble (2014)
Line Upon Line Percussion • In the Reign of Harad IV, for percussion trio
The American Composers Orchestra •
now is forever for soprano and orchestra (2012)
Yarn/Wire •Wolf for piano four hands and two percussionists (2010)
Carnegie Hall • Helen Enfettered for soprano, mezzo-soprano, and ensemble (2009)
The Tanglewood Music Center/The Boston Univesity Tanglewood Institute
• Nine Rakes for wind orchestra (2007)
The Knights • Entre Les Calanques for chamber orchestra (2008)
The Museum of Biblical Art •
Songs for Nobody for three solo female voices (2005)
DISCOGRPAHY (as composer and vocalist)
Mivos Quartet: Garden of Diverging Paths (New Focus, 2016) • as composer/sopranoVoices from the Killing Jar (Carrier Records, 2014) • portrait album: as composer/performer
Wet Ink: Relay (Carrier Records, 2012) • as composer/performer
Katharina Rosenberger: TEXTUREN (Hatart, 2011) • as vocalist
Yarn/Wire: Tone Builders (Carrier Records, 2008) • as composer
Wet Ink (Carrier Records, 2008) • as composer/performer
The Language of (quiet design records, 2009) • as composer How You Prepare to Leave (self-produced, 2004) • as singer/songwriter
Whatever the Angel Said (self-produced, 2002) • as singer/songwriter
What I Suspected (self-produced, 2001) • as singer/songwriter
This Game (self-produced, 2000) • as singer/songwriter
SELECTED FESTIVALS AND RESIDENCIES
The Civitella Raineri Foundation (Umbria, Italy) • Upcoming summer 2017
The Macdowell Colony (Peterborough, NH) • Colony Fellow, fall 2016 and summer 2013
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Cambridge, MA) • Fellow of the Institute, 2012-13
Domaine Forget (Quebec) • New Music Session, 2011 (invited return)
IRCAM (Paris) • Stage Intensif, June 2011
Royaumont/Voix Nouvelles (France) • Voix Nouvelles, 2010
Domaine Forget (Quebec) • New Music Session, 2010
Camargo Foundation (France) • Residency, Fall 2009
Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshops (NYC) • Composing Song workshop, 2008-9
The Composers Collaborative (NYC) • Non-Sequitor summer festival, August 2008
Ostrava Days (Ostrava, Czech Repulic) • full participant/fellowship recipiant, 2007
The Tanglewood Music Festival (Lennox, MA) • fellow of the festival, 2006
Wellesley Composers Conference (Wellesley, MA) • fellow of the festival, 2005
The Norfolk Contemporary Music Workshop (Norfolk, CT) •fellow of the festival, 2005
June in Buffalo (Buffalo, NY) • active participant, 2005
The Aspen Music Festival (Aspen, CO) • individual studies in composition, 2003
PUBLICATIONS
Project Schott New York (since 2011) • Selected works availabld for print and download
Journal of Interdisciplinary Vocal Research 2 (Spring 2016) •
Book Review: Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality
Online Journal of the Center for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield 2 (Spring 2011) •
"The Domaine Forget Summer Academy"
Music Theory and Practice 35 (January 2011) •
Making Many From Few: Orchestration in the Chamber Works of Ruth Crawford Seeger