Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2004 Ph.D., Musicology
University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
Dissertation Title: "'An Anarchic Society of Sounds': The Number Pieces of John Cage." (Co-advisers: Jürgen Thym and Robert D. Morris)
1997 D.M.A., Performance and Literature; Performer's Certificate (Harpsichord)
University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music
Principal Teacher: Arthur Haas
1996 M.A., Musicology
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
1992 M.M., Music History
Peabody Institute of Music, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
1986 Concert Recital Diploma (premier prix), Harpsichord
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, England
Principal Teacher: Christopher Kite
1984 M.M., Piano
Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Teacher: Lillian Freundlich
1982 B.M., Piano
Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Principal Teacher: Lillian Freundlich

Professional Activity

2004-present Assistant Professor of Music
University of New Hampshire
Spring 2004 Lecturer, Nazareth College
1997-2004 Student Instructor, Department of Musicology
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
1993-present Critic, American Record Guide
1990-1993 Music Critic, Columbia Flyer (Columbia, Maryland)
1988-present Journalist on Visual Art and Music
Articles for the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD), Baltimore Alternative (Baltimore, MD), others.

Courses Taught

2006-present MUSI 402 Introduction to Music History (University of New Hampshire): Introductory survey of Western classical music between 1600 and the present for non-majors; students develop listening skills and examine compositional designs and cultural contexts for the major musical genres.
2005-present MUSI 955 Introduction to Bibliography (University of New Hampshire): Seminar that introduces Master’s-level students to resources for bibliography in music and research techniques.
2005-present MUSI 711 Music of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (University of New Hampshire): Upper-level undergraduate and master’s survey course--Western music from around 1870 to 2003.
2005-present MUSI 401H Introduction to Music (Honors) (University of New Hampshire): Introduction to the history and principal genres of Western classical music between 1600 and the present for non-majors; students develop listening skills and survey the repertoire with special attention to four works:1) Monteverdi, The Coronation of Poppea; 2) Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro; 3) Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin; 4) Glass/Reggio, Koyaanisqatsi.
2005-present MUSI 958 Readings in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music (University of New Hampshire): Seminar that introduces Master’s-level students to selected musicological scholarship in the repertoire of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; students examine research questions and methodologies with a view to developing the skills necessary for investigating and developing original research.
2005-present MUSI 502 History and Literature of Music II (University of New Hampshire): Undergraduate survey course--Western music from 1730 to 1990.
2005-present MUSI 401H Introduction to Music, Honors (University of New Hampshire): Introduction to the history and principal genres of Western classical music between 1600 and the present; students develop listening skills and survey the repertoire with special attention to four works:1) Monteverdi, The Coronation of Poppea; 2) Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro; 3) Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin; 4) Glass/Reggio, Koyaanisqatsi.
2004-present MUSI 707 Music of the Classical Period (University of New Hampshire): Upper-level undergraduate and master's survey course--Western music from around 1730 to 1820.
2004-present MUSI 501 History and Literature of Music I (University of New Hampshire): Undergraduate survey course--Western music to 1750.
Summer 2004 MHS 490 Recent Topics in Bach Research (Eastman School of Music): Independent study seminar introducing current methodologies and issues in Bach scholarship emphasizing the late instrumental music.
Spring 2004 Mus 415 20th-century Music History and Literature (Nazareth College): Historic and stylistic survey of the mainstreams of twentieth-century music, from Schoenberg and Stravinsky to the present.
Spring 2004 MHS 424 Music in the Classic Period (Eastman School of Music): Graduate survey course for masters and doctoral students--Western music from 1730 to around 1820.
1998-2001 MHS 426 Music in the Twentieth Century (Eastman School of Music): Graduate survey course for masters and doctoral students--Western music from around 1870 to 2000.
1998-2000 HPC 130 Secondary Harpsichord (Eastman School of Music)
2000-2004 MHS 423 Music in the Baroque (Eastman School of Music): Graduate survey course for masters and doctoral students--Western music from around 1600 to 1750.
Summer 2000 MHS 590 Music After 1945 (Eastman School of Music): Seminar for doctoral students--readings (primary and secondary literature), student oral presentations, analysis/discussion of unidentified scores, and occasional lectures.
Spring 2000 MHS 590 John Cage (Eastman School of Music): Seminar for doctoral students--readings (primary and secondary literature on John Cage), student oral presentations, and occasional lectures on topics related to Cage research and Cage's musical and verbal compositions
Fall 1999 MHS 281 Music Since 1945 (Eastman School of Music): Lecture-survey for undergraduate (upperclassmen) or masters students--Western music from 1945 to 1993.
Spring 1999 MHS 282 Instrumental Music of J. S. Bach (Eastman School of Music): Lecture-survey for undergraduate (upperclassmen) or masters students--genres before J. S. Bach in Italy, Germany, France; chronological survey of Bach's works by genre; student coachings in connection with a recital of Bach's music presented in lieu of a final exam.
1997-1998 MHS 119 Music History in Review (Eastman School of Music): Remedial survey for masters and doctoral students--Western music from 1580 to 1990.
Fall 1997 MUR 101 Fundamentals of Music (University of Rochester): A course for the student with no previous musical experience--topics include notation, intervals, chords, and other basic concepts of tonal harmony, with application to the study of a wide range of styles including popular idioms.

Other Academic Service

Spring 2006 Supervised Independent Study for Kraig Lamper (BA), University of New Hampshire: Fluxus, the Movement and Its Continuation (proposal funded by Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, UNH and award-winning presentation at UNH Undergraduate Research Conference)
Fall 2006 Supervised Independent Study for John Mehrmann (BA), University of New Hampshire: Late Percussion Music of John Cage
Spring 2005 Supervised Independent Study for Eben Lillie (BA), University of New Hampshire: Documentary Film and Essay on Late Music of John Cage
Fall 2004 Supervised Independent Study for Michael Pickens (BM), University of New Hampshire: Compositional Design of Beethoven, Op. 59, no. 1, II
Fall 2004 Supervised Independent Study for Jessica West (BM), University of New Hampshire: Parody in Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations
Spring 2002 Advisor, D.M.A. Lecture-Recital for Lars Frandsen (PRL, Guitar), Eastman School of Music
2001-2002 Reader, D.M.A. doctoral essay for Nancia D'Alimonte (PRL, Conducting), Eastman School of Music
Summer and Fall 2000 Advisor, D.M.A. Lecture-Recital for Florent Renard-Payen (PRL, Cello), Eastman School of Music
Summer 2000 Member of Oral Examination Committee for Doctoral Qualifying Exams, Eastman School of Music
Summer 2000 Member, D.M.A. Lecture-Recital Committee for Terri A. Konzen (PRL, Organ), Eastman School of Music

University Service

2006-present Library Committee of the Faculty Senate (University of New Hampshire)
2006-present Curriculum Committee, Department of Music (University of New Hampshire)
2005-present Planning and Recruitment Committee, Undergraduate Research Committee Festival of Creativity and Culture (University of New Hampshire)
2005-2006 Research and Public Service Committee of the Faculty Senate (University of New Hampshire)
2005-present Faculty Senate Representative for Department of Music (University of New Hampshire)
2004-present Library Liaison for Department of Music (University of New Hampshire)

Presentations

"Variations on Themes for Geeks and Heroes: Leitmotif, Style and the Musicodramatic Moment in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Meeting of the American Musicological Society New England Chapter, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, May 5, 2007.

"Revisiting John Cage and Recorded Sound." Contemporary Music Roundtable, Music Library Association, National Meeting of the Society for American Music and Music Library Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 26-March 4, 2007.

"'Living Within Discipline:' John Cage's Music in the Context of Anarchism." National Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, Los Angeles, California, November 2-5, 2006.

"John Cage and the Contemporary Canon." Intercongressional Symposium of the International Musicological Society (SIMS 2006), "Contemporary Classical Music," Göteborg, Sweden, June 18-23, 2006.

"Reconciling Western Sense and Eastern No-Mindedness: Analysis and Performance of John Cage’s One5 (lecture-performance)." Society of American Music 32nd Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 15-19, 2006.

"The Model of Renga in John Cage's Two2." "Hung Up on the Number 64," University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, February 4, 2006.

"John Cage in a New Millennium: Approaches for Undergraduate Teaching." Teaching Music History Day 3, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, October 15, 2005.

"Playing in the Brothel: Problems of Performance Practice in John Cage's Song Books." "John Cage, Thinker-Performer," Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, United Kingdom, April 15, 2005.

"'Living Within Discipline': John Cage's Music in the Context of Anarchism." Society for American Music 31st Annual Conference, Eugene, Oregon, February 16-19, 2005.

"Between Process and Object: John Cage’s Evolving Attitude toward the Musical Work." Cage Conference, University of Calgary, January 27-29, 2005; Postgraduate Research Seminar, University of Huddersfield Music Department, February 3, 2006.

"Cage, Ichiyanagi, Fluxus, Japan: Responses and Resonances." National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Houston, Texas, November 14-16, 2003; invited paper, Music of Japan Today 2003, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland, April 4-6, 2003.

"'Beating My Head Against That Wall': Cage, Harmony, and an Argument for Analysis." American Musicological Society St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, April 26-27, 2003; Society for American Music 29th Annual Conference, Tempe, Arizona, February 26-March 2, 2003; "Cage 90/10": Cage Study Day, University of Southampton, United Kingdom, September 21, 2002.

"Toward a Critical Description of John Cage's Compositions." American Musicological Society St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting, School of Performing Arts, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, New York, April 6-7, 2002.

J. S. Bach as Rhetorician: Meter, Affect, and Topics in the Inventions and Sinfonias." Annual Conclave of the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, Columbia, South Carolina, February 22, 1997.

"Dances, Destinies, and Desire: Symbols of Sexuality and the Gendered Reception of Richard Strauss's Elektra." American Musicological Society St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, October 8, 1995.

"Another Look at Philip Glass: Aspects of Harmony and Formal Structure in Einstein on the Beach." National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 30, 1994.

Books

John Cage. Forthcoming, Reaktion Books.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

"John Cage and the Contemporary Canon." In Contemporary Classical Music: Papers of the 2006 Intercongressional Symposium of the International Musicological Society, ed. Chris Walton and Stephanus Muller. Pretoria: UNISA Press, forthcoming.

"Variations on Themes for Geeks and Heroes: Leitmotif, Style and the Musicodramatic Moment." In Sounds of the Slayer: Music and Silence in Buffy and Angel, ed. Paul Attinello and Vanessa Knights. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, forthcoming.

"Between Process and Object: John Cage's Evolving Attitude toward the Musical Work." In preparation.

"John Cage in a New Millennium: Research Materials and Approaches for Undergraduate Teaching." Submitted to College Music Symposium, 2005.

"Another Look at Philip Glass: Aspects of Harmony and Formal Design in Early Works and Einstein on the Beach." JEMS: An Online Journal of Experimental Music Studies, 2005 (uploaded September 12, 2005).

"Classical Musics in the United States" (with William Kearns, Steve Loza, Josephine R. B. Wright, and Ingrid Monson). In Music in the United States: An Introduction, ed. Ellen Koskoff, 306–16. New York: Routledge, 2005.

"Cage, Ichiyanagi, Fluxus, Japan: Responses and Resonances." Forthcoming, Proceedings of Conference "Music of Japan Today 2003."

"Philip Glass and Michael Riesman: Two Interviews." Musical Quarterly 86 (2002): 508-29.

"Notes on Cage, Harmony, and Analysis." Frankfurter Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 6 (2003): 66-81.

"Dances, Destinies, and Desire: Symbols of Sexuality and the Gendered Reception of Richard Strauss's Elektra." Under revision for resubmission to Cambridge Opera Journal, 2002.

"American Symphonic and Chamber Music in the Twentieth Century." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 3. The United States and Canada, ed. Ellen Koskoff, 173-79. New York: Garland Publishing, 2001.

"American Electronic Music in the Twentieth Century." In The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Vol. 3. The United States and Canada, ed. Ellen Koskoff, 252-56. New York: Garland Publishing, 2001.

"Singing a New Song: Some Notes on Susan McClary's Feminine Endings and a New Musicology." Link 1 (summer 1996): 50-61.

Reviews in Peer-reviewed Journals

Review of Glenn Gould Hereafter (Paris: Ideale Audience, 2006). Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 63 (2007), forthcoming.

Review of The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer, ed. Thomas May. Portland: Amadeus Press, 2006. Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 63 (2007): 859-61.

Review of Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress performed by the Glyndbourne Opera, cond. Bernard Haitink (Leipzig: Euroarts, 2006). Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 63 (2007): 673-74.

Review of Philip Glass: Looking Glass (Paris: Ideale Audience, 2005). Journal of the Society for American Music1 (2007): 159-60.

Review of Robert Fink, Repeating Ourselves: American Minimalism as Cultural Practice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005). Current Musicology 81 (spring 2006): 147-54.

Review of Lully, Persée performed by Tafelmusic Baroque Orchestra, cond. Hervé Niquet (Leipzig: Euroarts 2054178, 2005) and Rameau, Les Indes galantes performed by Les Arts Florissants, cond. William Christie (Waldron, Heathfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom: Opus Arte 923, 2005). Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 63 (2007): 166-69.

Review of Arnold Whittall, Exploring Twentieth-Century Music: Tradition and Innovation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Music & Letters 86 (2005): 149-52.

Review of Dorottya Fabian, Bach Performance Practice, 1945-1975: A Comprehensive Review of Sound Recordings and Literature (London: Ashgate, 2004). ARSC Journal 35 (2004): 249-52.

Review of The Cambridge Companion to John Cage, ed. David Nicholls (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). Music Theory Online 10.2 (June 2004).

"Composition (not Philosophy): James Pritchett's The Music of John Cage." Perspectives of New Music 34, no. 2 (summer 1996): 216-23.

Other (not peer-reviewed) Presentations and Publications

"Variations on Themes for Geeks and Heroes: Leitmotif, Style and the Musicodramatic Moment. in Two Episodes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Graduate Colloquium Series, Department of Music, University of New Hampshire, October 5, 2006.

"Reconciling Western Sense and Eastern No-Mindedness: Analysis and Performance of John Cage’s One5." Graduate Colloquium Series, Department of Music, University of New Hampshire, September 22, 2005.

"Playing in the Brothel: Problems of Performance Practice in John Cage's Song Books." Graduate Colloquium Series, Department of Music, University of New Hampshire, April 8, 2005.

"Chopin's Piano: The Sound of Romantic Music." Bach's Lunch Series, Concord Community Music School, Concord, New Hampshire, April 7, 2005.

"Between Process and Object: John Cage’s Evolving Attitude toward the Musical Work." Graduate Colloquium Series, Department of Music, University of New Hampshire, October 14, 2004.

"The Extraordinary Commonplace: Cage's Music for Shō, Violin, Conch Shells." Liner notes for recording on OgreOgress, forthcoming.

"On John Cage's Late Music, Analysis, and The Model of Renga in Two2." Nazareth College, Rochester, New York, February 24, 2004; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, February 26, 2004; University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, March 4, 2004; Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Mississippi, March 8, 2004.

"Analyzing Anarchy: John Cage's Number Pieces." Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 13, 2004; Nazareth College, Rochester, New York, February 24, 2004.

"Glass Keyboards." Piano Today 23, no. 3 (summer 2003): 45.

Liner notes for "John Cage: Works for Violin, vol. 5." Mode 118, 2003.

"John Cage in 2002: An Introduction to Current Research and Teaching Strategies." Eastman School of Music Musicology Colloquium Series, November 14, 2002.

"Ten Years After: John Cage in the New Millennium." John Cage Festival, "I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It," Mt. Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, October 18-20, 2002.

"Notes on One9 and 108." Liner notes for recording on Mode 108, 2002.

"'Beating My Head Against That Wall': Cage, Harmony, and an Argument for Analysis." Eastman School of Music Musicology Colloquium Series, May 2, 2002.

"Anarchism and the Everyday: John Cage's Number Pieces." Liner notes for recording of Four4 on OgreOgress, 2002.

"Toward a Critical Description of John Cage's Compositions." Eastman School of Music Musicology Graduate Student Symposium, February 9, 2002.

"Bach Rethinking, Rethinking Bach: Transcription, Arrangement, and Performance." Eastman Colloquium Series, Eastman School of Music, October 2, 2001.

"Speaking Music, Playing Silence: The Art of John Cage." Eastman Colloquium Series, Eastman School of Music, October 3, 2000.

Liner notes for "Pierné: Music for Piano [Enid Katahn]." Gasparo GSCD-302, 1999.

Liner notes for "Pachelbel: Canons and more . . . [Barbara Harbach, organ]." Gasparo GSS 2001, 1999.

Liner notes for "Roussel: Music for Piano [Enid Katahn]." Gasparo GSCD 295, 1997.

Liner notes for "The Age of Purcell: English Harpsichord Music of the Restoration [Arthur Haas]." Music & Arts CD-998, 1997.

"Musica Sacra, Lauda, Travestimenti e Madrigali Spirituali nell'Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri (1515-1596), by Insieme Vocale e Strumantale di Progetto Musica and Violes Esgales, by Les Voix Humaines [record review]." Seventeenth-Century Music 5, no. 2 (spring 1996): 1, 8-9.

Liner notes for "Chaminade: Music for Piano [Enid Katahn]." Gasparo GSCD 247, 1995.

Liner notes for "Antoine Forqueray: Pièces de clavecin [Arthur Haas, harpsichord]." Wildboar WLBR 9201, 1994.

Recordings

John Cage: Two2, for two pianos (with Laurel Karlik Sheehan). Forthcoming, Mode Records, 2007.

Steve Reich: Tehillim; The Desert Music (with Alan Pierson and Alarm Will Sound). Cantaloupe 21009, 2002.

Baroque for the Mass--Ursuline Composers of the 17th Century (with Andrea Folan, Brian Brooks, Kirk Dougherty, Deborah Howell, Roya Bauman, and others). Leonarda 346, 1999.

Selected Performances

John Cage, Dance to the West (with Margaret Leng Tan).  National Meeting of the Society for American Music and Music Library Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1, 2007.

John Cage: Two2 (with Laurel Karlik Sheehan); Erik Satie: Vexations (with Simon Anderson, Christopher Fox, Ian Pace, Laurel Karlik Sheehan, Philip Thomas, and others). "Hung Up on the Number 64," University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, February 3 and 4, 2006.

Kevin Volans: White Man Sleeps; Martin Scherzinger et al.: Nyamaropa. Ensemble Noir, Music Gallery of St. George the Martyr, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 23, 2002.

 John Cage: Two2 and "Mesostic IV" from I-VI. John Cage Festival: "I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It," Mt. Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, October 18-20, 2002.

John Cage: Song Books. Ossia, Eastman School of Music, March 30, 2001 (producer and performer in evening-length, staged performance).

Steve Reich: Music for Eighteen Musicians (1975-77) (piano and vibraphone) and Tehillim (1984) (electric organ 2). Ossia, Eastman School of Music, February 18, 1999.

John Cage: "Lecture on Nothing" (1950) (recitation) and Fourteen (1990) (bowed piano). Ossia, Eastman School of Music, February 16, 1999.

La Monte Young: Composition 1960 No. 7 (1960); Philip Glass: Two Pages (1969), Mad Rush (1979), and "Dance No. 4," from Dance (1979). Organ Recital Series, University of Rochester, April 3, 1998.

Other Experience

2007 Panelist for New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Individual Grants in Performing Arts
2005-present Reviewer for University of Rochester Press book proposals
2002-present Board of Directors, Alarm Will Sound
2001 Co-Producer for recording of Steve Reich's Music for Large Ensemble by Alarm Will Sound and Ossia, Nonesuch 79546-2
2001-2002 Advisory Board, Alarm Will Sound
1999-2002 Administrative Board, Ossia (Eastman student-administered new music group): Produced and participated in concerts, evaluated proposals submitted for 1999-2000, 2000-2001, and 2001-2002 concert seasons
1999 Workshop on writing record reviews and program notes, Eastman School of Music
1997-present Copy editor: Books include Hans Lenneberg, On the Publishing and Dissemination of Music, 1500-1850 (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, forthcoming); Teaching Music History, ed. Mary Natvig (London: Ashgate, 2002); Kant's Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis White Beck, ed. Predrag Cicovacki (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2001)
1996-present Advisory Board, Link (refereed interdisciplinary arts journal published in Baltimore, Maryland)
1995-present Guest Lectures, Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester (topics: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century harpsichord technique and literature; J. S. Bach; ornamentation and performance practice for percussionists playing Bach; minimalism; Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique; John Cage)
1994-1995 President, Graduate Musicology Association, Eastman School of Music
1989-1990 Special Advisory Board, Res Musica Baltimore (new music organization)
1987-1991 Industrial Arts (co-founder): Electronic keyboard ensemble based in Baltimore, Maryland (repertory included music composed by ensemble members as well as works by Gavin Bryars, Philip Glass, and Arvo Pärt)

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

2006 Honorable Mention, Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award Committee, Society of American Music, for "'An Anarchic Society of Sounds': The Number Pieces of John Cage"
2005 Listed in Who's Who in America, 60th ed.
2005 University of New Hampshire, College of Liberal Arts Faculty Summer Fellowship
2003 Charles Warren Fox Memorial Award--for "'Beating My Head Against That Wall': Cage, Harmony, and an Argument for Analysis."
2002-2003 Raymond N. Ball Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of Rochester
2002 Professional Development Fund, Eastman School of Music (travel to England to participate in Cage Study Day at the University of Southampton)
2002 Student Prize for Best Paper, AMS-St. Lawrence Chapter for "Toward a Critical Description of John Cage's Compositions"
2002 Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music, Music Library Association
2001-2002 Elsa T. Johnson Dissertation Fellowship, Eastman School of Music
2001-2002 Professional Development Fund, Eastman School of Music (travel to Chicago for research at Northwestern University)
1996-1998 Teaching Assistant (Music Program, University of Rochester)
1995 Student Prize for Best Paper, AMS-St. Lawrence Chapter for "Dances, Destinies, and Desire: Symbols of Sexuality and the Gendered Reception of Richard Strauss's Elektra"
1994-1996 Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull University Fellowship (Univ. of Rochester)
1994 Listed in Who's Who in the East, 25th ed.
1993-1994 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanistic Studies
1989 The Painted Bride (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania): Workshop grant for Frankenstein, collaborative music-theater work
1989 Maryland State Arts Council: Work-in-Progress Grant for Frankenstein, collaborative music-theater work
1988 Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust (Pikesville, Maryland): Commission for Areas in Which Events are Formed, dance-theater work created by Robin Williams, Rob Haskins, and Laure Drogoul
1987-1990 Composers Performance Fund, Meet the Composer: Small grants for appearances in concerts in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. featuring music by Rob Haskins
1986-1987 British Petroleum North America Scholarship (all expenses for study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London)

Professional Memberships

American Bach Society
American Musicological Society
Society for American Music
College Music Society
 

References

Jürgen Thym, Ph. D.
Professor, Department of Musicology
Eastman School of Music
e-mail: [available on request]
phone: 585-274-1450

Robert D. Morris, Ph. D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Composition
Eastman School of Music
e-mail: [available on request]
phone: 585-274-1558

Ralph P. Locke, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Musicology
Eastman School of Music
e-mail: [available on request]
phone: 585-274-1450

Daniel Albright, Ph.D.
Professor of English and American Literature
Harvard University
Barker Center 152
Cambridge, MA 02138
e-mail: [available on request]
phone: 617-384-9395

Massimo M. Ossi, Ph. D.
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Musicology
Indiana University School of Music
Music Theory/Musicology Department
School of Music, Indiana University
1201 E. 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-7006
e-mail: [available on request]
phone: 812-855-5716

Arthur Haas
Associate Professor of Harpsichord
Department of Music
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5475
e-mail: [available on request]
phone: 631-632-7330

Mark DeTurk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair of Music
University of New Hampshire
Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 College Road
Durham, NH 03824
e-mail: [available on request]
phone: 603-862-3244

Daniel Beller-McKenna, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Music
University of New Hampshire
Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 College Road
Durham, NH 03824
e-mail: [available on request]
phone: 603-862-1667

Last updated June 9, 2007