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