Music CV

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Master of Arts, 2002
Paper advisors: Philip Bohlman, Martha Feldman, Anne Robertson

  • Racial Discourse in the Writing of Boethius’s De Institutione Musica
  • Staging the Personal World––Dancer in the Dark as a 21st-Century Challenge to Film Musicals
  • Towards a Re-assessment of the Compositional History of Mozart’s Oboe Concertos

    • Columbia University , New York, NY
    Bachelor of Arts, 2000
    Music composition thesis advisor: Sebestian Currier

  • Sestina, Pantoum and Limerick for violin, cello and piano

    • The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, UK
    Licentiate Diploma (LRSM) in Violin Performance, 1997
    Licentiate Diploma (LRSM) in Piano Performance, 1996

    Fellowships

    University Fellowship in the Humanities, 2001-2002
    Rappaport Summer Music Fellowship, 2000
    Charles Hayden Memorial Scholarship, 1996-1999

    Music Studies


  • Piano in the Yin Cheng Zong piano studio and with Niels Østbye
  • Violin with Chen Chang Quan and Muneko Otani
  • Chamber music coaching with Muneko Otani, Allan Blustine, and the Pacifica Quartet
  • Conducting with Lawrence Eisman and George Rothman
  • Analysis with Chan Wing-Wah
  • Composition with Sebastian Currier
  • Orchestration with Tristan Murail

  • Carillon with Wylie Crawford
  • Flute with Lisa Maron
  • Double bass with Linda McKnight
  • Gamba with Rosamund Morley
  • Organ with Mary Monroe

    • Performance Activities

    See the Performance page

    Arts Administration

    Argento New Music Project, New York, NY
    General Manager, 2006-present

    Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, Cooperstown, NY
    Production Consultant, 2009
    Production Manager, 2008

    Music of the Spheres Choral Concert Series at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY
    Curator, 2005-2006

    WHPK, University of Chicago Radio, Chicago, IL
    Classical Format Chief, 2002-2004

    Columbia University, New York, NY
    Coordinator, Music Performance Program Coordinator, 1999-2001
    Music Director, Orchestra for Asian Music, 1998-2000
    Manager, University Orchestra, 1998-1999
    Librarian, University Orchestra, 1997-1998

    Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Sullivan, NH
    Camp Director, 2002-2003
    Counselor, 2001

    Grants Awarded

    Fritz Reiner Fund
    2010: $15,000 - Argento New Music Project contemporary American music programming
    2010: $ 3,000 - Argento New Music Project contemporary American music recording
    2010: $ 5,000 - Argento New Music Project - Diaghilev Project
    2009: $10,000 - Argento New Music Project contemporary American music programming

    Alice M. Ditson Fund
    2011: $10,000 - Argento New Music Project Lunar Movements Weekly Concert Series
    2009: $ 4,000 - Argento New Music Project concerts

    French American Fund for Contemporary Music
    2011: $6,000 - Argento New Music Project French contemporary music programming
    2009: $8,000 - Argento New Music Project French contemporary music programming

    New York State council on the Arts Professional Performances Grant
    2011: (est. $4,200) - Argento New Music Project Lunar Movements Weekly Concert Series
    2010: $4,200 - Argento New Music Project Lunar Movements Weekly Concert Series

    Aaron Copland Fund Performing Ensembles Program
    2010: $3,000 - Argento New Music Project - General Operating

    Sainsbury Student Support Fund / Gatsby Charitable Foundation Grant
    2006: $700 - Music of the Spheres Choral Concert Series
    2007: $550 - Music of the Spheres Choral Concert Series