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Music Theory

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B.A. magna cum laude in music with minors in theater arts and comparative literature, University of Pennsylvania; M.M. in composition, Peabody Conservatory; Ph.D. in composition with music theory minor, University of Chicago. Studies in music composition with Shulamit Ran, Marta Ptaszynska, John Eaton, Andrew Imbrie, David Rakowski, Robert Hall Lewis, Ronald Caltabiano, Morris Moshe Cotel, Richard Wernick. Former faculty, Ohio University, the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, Columbia College Chicago, the Merit School of Music; lecturer, the University of Chicago. Composition awards include the William Schuman Prize for most outstanding score in the B.M.I. Student Composer Awards, residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Performers include the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), eighth blackbird, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Pacifica String Quartet, pianist Amy Briggs Dissanayake, cellist/singers Victoria Bass and Jody Redhage, conductor Cliff Colnot. Music theory interests include analysis of song, music cognition, analysis of rhythm and form; applications in music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

2008-2009 SCHEDULE

FALL 2008: Theory 3, Graduate Theory Review, Music Theory and Musicianship 2 (Homewood), Private Composition Lessons for Majors

SPRING 2009: Theory 3, Song Analysis (Graduate Seminar), 20th-Century Styles (Graduate Seminar), Music Theory and Musicianship 3 (Homewood)

2009-2010 SCHEDULE

FALL 2009: Theory 2, Theory 3, Song Analysis (Graduate Seminar), 20th-Century Styles (Graduate Seminar)

SPRING 2009: Theory 2, Theory 3, Pop Music History at Homewood [no graduate seminars this semester!]

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