Education
Columbia University, Doctorate of Musical Arts with distinction, 2011
Principal teachers: Fred Lerdahl, Mario Davidovsky, Fabien Levy, Tristan Murail (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
Summer Festivals, Residencies, and Workshops
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
Professional Affiliations
The Wet Ink Ensemble, 2006-present • Managing Director/vocalist
Columbia Composers, 2005-2007 • board member
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Columbia University, fall 2011-present • Music Humanities
Instructor of Music, Columbia University, 2005-2011 • Music Humanities: developed syllabus/designed course. Fall 2008, spring 2009, spring 2010, spring 2011.
Diatonic Music Theory: as teaching assistant. Also taught weekly lab session. Fall 2007 - spring 2008.
Ear Training and Aural Skills: developed syllabus/designed course. Fall 2005 - spring 2007.
Awards
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
Recent Commissions
The American Composers Orchestra
now is forever he whispered, 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 Kenners Ensemble
I Had a Slow Thought on a Hard Day for saxophone and accordion • 2007
The Museum of Biblical Art
Songs for Nobody for three solo female voices • 2005
Discography
Tone Builders: Carrier Records, 2008
Yarn/Wire debut CD: includes Wolf
Wet Ink: Carrier Records, 2008
Wet Ink Ensemble's debut CD: includes Door
The Language of: quiet design records, 2009
Compilation of music by NYC-based composers: includes I Had a Slow Thought on a Hard Day
How You Prepare to Leave: self-produced, 2004
Original songs for voice, piano and electronics
Whatever the Angel Said: self-produced, 2002
Original songs for voice and piano
What I Suspected: self-produced, 2001
Original songs for voice and piano
This Game: self-produced, 2000
Original songs for voice and piano
Presentations
Sacramento State University, Sacramento CA, 11/10/11
Masterclass on contemporary vocal techniques for voice students
Domaine Forget, Quebec, 8/18/11
Public lecture on "The Door in the Wall" for large chamber ensemble
University of California, San Diego, 1/10/11
Guest lecturer, undergraduate music department seminar
University of California, San Diego, 1/10/11
Guest performer, Focus on Performance seminar (works performed: Beat Furrer, FAMA Szene VI, Kate Soper, Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say
Amherst College, 10/22/10
Guest lecture at composition seminar
Vanderbilt University, 3/18/10
Guest lecture at composition seminar
New York University, 10/21/08
Presentation of two new works at NYU student composition seminar
Music Theory Society of New York State, 4/5/08
Presentation on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger at annual meeting
Sarah Lawrence College, 4/17/06
Presentation on Crosshatch to History of Western Music class
Selected Performance Experience (as vocalist)
Aria (for solo voice) by John Cage: 12/13/11, New Yori NY
128 Erfulte Augenblicke (for soprano, clarinet and cello) by Mathias Spahlinger: 5/27/11, New Yori NY
Anthem (for voice and ensemble) by George Lewis: 4/30/11, New Yori NY
Process: Bulge (for soprano and ensemble) by Lew Spratlan: 4/30/11, New Yori NY
S.K. Remembrance Noise (for soprano and violin) by Gyorgy Kurtag: 1/24/11, New Yori NY
Color Form Line (for voice and ensemble) by Alex Mincek: 1/12/11, San Diego, CA
Texturen (for soprano and ensemble) by Katharina Rosenberger: 11/5/10, New York NY
Alban (for voice and ensemble) by Rick Burkhardt: 11/5/10, New York NY
Katachi (for voice and ensemble) by Eric Wubbels: 11/5/10, New York NY
The Red Scarf and the Black Briefcase (theatre piece with sung interludes including works by Purcell, Weill, and Soper): 3/28/10, Nashville TN
Mouthpiece VI (for voice and ensemble) by Erin Gee: 5/1/10, New York NY
FAMA scene VI (for voice and contrabass flute) by Beat Furrer: 4/14/10, Dekalb, IL
Pour Paul Signac (for voice and ensemble) by Caroline Malonée: 7/12/09, Dublin NH
Aria (for soprano and ensemble) by Beat Furrer: 1/31/09, New York NY
Find the Devil's Lead (for voice and large ensemble) by Richard Carrick: 5/3/08, New York NY
Songs for Nobody (for three solo voices and ensemble) by Kate Soper: 4/13/07, New York NY
Door (for soprano and ensemble) by Kate Soper 3/19/07, New York NY; 1/27/08, Boston MA
From Nowhere to Nowhere (for voice and ensemble) by Alex Mincek: 10/29/06, New York NY; 1/31/09, New York NY
Publications
Music Theory and Practice 35 (January 2011)
Making Many From Few: Orchestration in the Chamber Works of Ruth Crawford Seeger
Online Journal of the Center for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield 2 (Spring 2011)
The Domaine Forget Summer Academy