Education
Columbia University, 2004-present: Doctorate of Musical Arts expected 2011
Principal teachers: Fred Lerdahl, Mario Davidovsky, Fabien Levy
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
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 University, 2005-present • teaching fellow in music humantities, theory and auraul skills
Columbia Composers, 2005-2007 • board member
Awards
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
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
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
Selected Performance Experience (as vocalist)
Mouthpiece VI (for voice and ensemble) by Erin Gee: 5/1/10, New Yori NY
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
Presentations
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
Publications
Music Theory and Practice (forthcoming)
Making Many From Few: Orchestraion in the Chamber Works of Ruth Crawford Seeger