Curriculum Vitae
Education
The Graduate Center at CUNY (PhD, Composition) 2016-Present
Principal Teachers: Suzanne Farrin ’18-’19 Jason Eckardt ’16-17,
UC Berkeley (M.A., Composition) 2013-2016
Principal Teachers: Ken Ueno '15, Cindy Cox '14, Edmund Campion '14, Franck Bedrossian '13, '15
SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music (B.M., Music Composition) 2009-2013
Principal Teachers: Huang Ruo '12-13, Du Yun '10-'12, Suzanne Farrin '09-'10
Festivals/Awards/Honors
Etchings Festival (Auvillar, France) Summer 2018
Principal Teachers: John Aylward, Erin Gee, Martin Brody, Phillipe Hurel
Atlantic Music Festival (Waterville, Maine) Summer 2016
Principal Teachers: Ken Ueno, George Tsontakis, Robert Patterson, Robert Cuckson, Donald Crockett
highSCORE Festival (Pavia, Italy) Summer 2014
Principal Teachers: Christopher Theofinidis, Amy Beth Kirsten, Dmitri Tymoczko, Mario Garutti
Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunsick, Maine) Summer 2013
Principal Teachers: Derek Bermel
Compositions and Select Performances
Prince Danila Govorila: An Opera Fragment in Five Scenes (2019-2020) 20’
for five voices, string quartet, and amplified tape cassette players
“Trachte geliebt und nicht-bewundert zu werden” (2018-19) 20’
for solo violin and amplified tape cassette player
written for and premiered by Pala Garcia (vln)
March 2019, Hunter College, New York, NY
Nine Fragments (2017-18) 8’
for String Quartet
written for and premiered by Mivos Quartet
3/14/18 Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Study for piano trio (2017) 4’
written for and premiered by Brigid Coleridge (vln), John Popham (vc) and Nora Bartosik (pno).
5/18/17 Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
for piano trio (2017) 9’
written for and premiered by Longleash Piano Trio
4/5/17 Hunter College
It stays how it is (2016-17) 15’
for trumpet, alto saxophone, viola, and piano
written for and premiered by Contemporaneous
3/7/17, David Bloom, conductor
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Nine Movements (2015) 11'
for pierrot sextet
written for and premiered by ECO Ensemble
12/14/15 cond. David Milnes
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Blind Window (2014) 9'
for solo oboe
written for and premiered by Kyle Bruckmann
CNMAT, Berkeley, CA 1/12/15
5/11/15: Kyle Bruckmann
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Three Pieces (2014) 7'
for clarinet quartet
written for and premiered by 15.19 ensemble
Summer 2014 highSCORE music festival
Pavia, Italy
12/15/14: ECO Ensemble, David Milnes, conductor
Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Fragment (2013) 7'
for String Quintet
written for ECO Ensemble
String Quartet no. 1 (2013) 15'
for string quartet and mezzo-soprano
written for and premiered by Rachel Weishoff, Kenneth Trotter, Sarah Wolff, Naseer Ashraf, Maria Hadge
05/13 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
*Instrumental Version for string quartet (2013/2015) 10'
premiered by Alex Fortes, Katie Hyun, DJ Cheek, and Michael Nicholas
05/03 The Stone, NYC, NY
Nisi Masa (2012) 9'
for chamber orchestra
premiered by the SUNY Purchase New Music Ensemble
04/12 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Music for Winds and Percussion (2011) 6'
for clarinet and chamber ensemble
performed at the Bowdoin International Music Festival
07/13 Brunswick, ME
performed by SUNY Purchase New Music Ensemble
11/12 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
11/11 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
Three Movements (2011) 6'
for clarinet, electric guitar, and cello
performed by SUNY Purchase New Music Ensemble
11/12 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
04/11 SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
performed by Marsyas Ensemble
06/11 Symphony Space, New York, NY
Three Pieces for piano (2010) 5'
Duo for flute and cello (2010) 5'
Quartet for Percussion (2010) 9'
written for and premiered by the Iktus Percussion Quartet
Teaching and Tutoring
Brooklyn College
Mus3237: Post-Tonal Theory (Kostka-Payne)
Instructor: Spring ’20, Spring ‘19
Mus3236: Chromatic Harmony (Kostka-Payne)
Instructor: Fall ’19, Fall ’18, Fall ‘17
Mus3235: Diatonic Harmony (Kostka-Payne)
Instructor: Spring ‘18
Mus1400: Introduction to Music Fundamentals (Takesue)
Instructor: Fall ’20, Summer ’20, Spring ’20, Spring ‘18
UC Berkeley
Mus25a: Diatonic Harmony (Aldwell and Schachter)
Instructor: Spring ’16, Fall ’15, Spring ‘15
Teaching Assistant: Fall ’14 for David Pereira
SUNY Purchase Learning Center
Private Tutor in Ear Training, Writing: 2011-2013
Production
Dana Saul – Ceiling (Endectomorph Records 2018)
Executive Producer
Publications and Writing
Dana Saul – Ceiling (Endectomorph Records 2018)
Liner Notes
Software Proficiency
Ableton, Logic Pro, Sibelius, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Audition