Summer 2009

I will be teaching composition lessons at Eastman for the Summer Session, including majors and nonmajors.

March 27, 2009

I got some good news yesterday. I had talked with E.B. Marks about a new Bolcom engraving - an older piece for Violin and String Orchestra for Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. It now turns out that Bill has writtien her a new piece, Romanza, so I will be engraving both in the coming few months.

Also I am finally getting to the part extraction portion on Bolcom's Third Symphony - I've been working on this score for two years!

March 2009

Job search update: I heard from Indiana that I didn't make the short list (this was the long shot application. However I have still yet to hear from Ithaca or Bucknell (who knows with this economy). The most recent application has gone out for a special appointment at Central Connecticut State University - what sounds like a good Technology/Theory position.

In other carreer development news, I have applied for the Minnesota Composer Institute for the Fall of 2009.

May 17, 2008

I have now joined the ranks of University of Rochester/Eastman School of Music alumni!

April 26, 2008

I have turned in the permanent copy of my dissertation. Next stop is graduation!

April 8, 2008

I will be defending my Ph.D. thesis in front of a graduate committe of the University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music.

UPDATE!!! (4/9/08) I passed the thesis defense - you can call me Doctor now!

November 11, 2006

Performance of Adagio, the first movement of my dissertation performed by the Eastman Philharmonia, Eastman Theater, Rochester, NY.

Summer 2006

Studying for the comprehensive exams.