TEACHING

Berklee College of Music
Professor of Composition, 2006-present.
Associate Professor of Composition, 1997-2006.
Assistant Professor of Composition, 1991-1997.
Courses taught: Traditional Harmony 1 and 2; Traditional Counterpoint 1 and 2; Techniques of Tonal Writing; Contemporary Techniques 1 and 2; Seminal Composers: the music of John Cage and Morton Feldman; Concert Music from 1945.

Springhouse Assisted Living
Lecturer, 1996-2000.
Monthly lectures on music history and literature to the Independent Living residents.

Rivers Music School
Theory Teacher, 1990-1997.
Developed and taught a 12-level comprehensive music theory program (including all theory fundamentals plus counterpoint, part-writing, analysis, music history and literature, and composition) for children ages 8-18.
Piano Teacher, 1990-1997.
Staff Accompanist, 1991-1997.
Duties included accompanying students and faculty for recitals, master classes, and workshops.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Instructor, Keyboard Harmony, 1989-1991.
Duties included instructing students in basic keyboard technique and assisting students with harmony and counterpoint homework.

Boston University
Teaching Fellow, 1984-1989.
Duties included teaching the ear-training and keyboard harmony sections of freshman and sophomore theory courses.






EDUCATION

Boston University
Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, 1989.
Master of Music in Composition, 1984.

University of Colorado
Bachelor of Music in Composition, summa cum laude, 1982.



RESIDENCIES

The Boston Conservatory; Boston, Massachusetts; October 14-18, 2003;
composer-in-residence for new music festival

MacDowell Colony; Peterborough, New Hampshire; January 1999.

MacDowell Colony; January 1998.

American Dance Festival; Duke University; Durham, North Carolina; June, 1995.

Tanglewood Music Center; composition fellow; Lenox, Massachusetts; summer 1988; studies with Hans Werner Henze.

Tanglewood Music Center; composition fellow; summer 1986; studies with Oliver Knussen.


TALKS AND PANELS

Boston University Composers Forum, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2002; on composing for string trio.

Skinner Magnet School 5th graders, Omaha, Nebraska, May 2001; on being a composer.

Walnut Hill School for the Performing Arts composition class, Natick, Massachusetts, March 2000; on composing for orchestra.

Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School music classes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 2000; on being a composer.

San Francisco Symphony preconcert talks, San Francisco, California, April 1998; on being a composer.

Tufts University Forum on Women in Music, Medford, Massachusetts, November 1997; member of panel on women in music.

Boston University Composers Forum, September 1996; on composing for puppet theater.

Rivers Music School Adult Education Series; Weston, Massachusetts, April 1996; on the history and evolution of the symphony.

Boston Conservatory New Music Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1996; member of a panel on the future of modern music.

Wellesley High School Seminar Day, Wellesley, Massachusetts, March 1996; on composing.

Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, May 1995; member of a panel on women in modern music.

Hartt Conservatory of Music composition majors, Hartford, Connecticut, April 1995; on composing for puppet theater.

California State-Sacramento Festival of New American Music, Sacramento, California, November 1991; guest composer.




ADJUDICATION

Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Composition Fellowsip Panelist, 2006.
MTNA Young Composers Competition, 2005.
Young Composers Competition, Hartt Conservatory, 2000.
Young Composers Competition, Hartt Conservatory¸1999.
New England Conservatory Extension Division Concerto Competition, 1997.
Jury for the 4th Munich Biennale for New Music Theater, 1994.
Fanny Mendelssohn Composition Prize, 1993.





RECORDINGS

Doloroso; Apostolos Parskevas, 2006.
She Fell Into a Well of Sorrows; Kathleen Supove; 2003
The Five Chairs; Atlantic Brass Quintet, 2003.
The Parting Glass; Ulf Golnast; 1997.
The Five Chairs; Iowa Brass Quintet; 1997.
waterbowls; Kathleen Supové; 1993.


PRIZES

Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, 2005.
Fromm Foundation Commission, 1998.
Lee Ettleson Composition Prize; first prize; 1998.
Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic; second prize; 1992.
Friends and Enemies of New Music Composition; first prize; 1991.