My curriculum vitæ is available in PDF here.

• Graduate student at the Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin
• Major/field of study: Music – composition
• Related fields of experience: Conducting, orchestration, music theory, education, musicology, choral singing, piano/keyboard performance
• Age: 23; began formal study of composition at 20, formal study of conducting at 21

• Master of Music in Composition, Butler School of Music (University of Texas at Austin), expected May 2011
  • Composition professors: Yevgeniy Sharlat, Donald Grantham, Russell Pinkston
  • Conducting professors: John Wiles
• Bachelor of Arts in Music (intensive, with honors; concentration: composition), Yale University, May 2009
  • Composition professors: Kathryn Alexander, Michael Klingbeil
  • Musical theatre composition professors: Andrew Gerle, Josh Rosenblum, Joeseph Thalken, Joel Fram, Richard Pearson Thomas
  • Conducting professors: Jeffrey Douma, Toshiyuki Shimada

• Conductor, University of Texas Renaissance Collegium, 2010–2011. The choir is part of the University of Texas Madrigal Dinner Committee, but will hold its own performances as well. Duties for the fall semester include selecting repertoire, auditioning singers, and rehearsing a forty-five minute program of Renaissance choral music. Duties for the spring semester are yet to be determined.
• Assistant Conductor, University of Texas Men's Chorus, 2009–2010. Duties include conducting one to two works per semester and aiding in rehearsal of other repertoire (leading sectionals, standing in for main conductor on occasion, &c.) Position is an independent study under Dr. John Wiles, D.M.A. Past coursework has emphasized expressive gesture, score study and preparation, and educational techniques. Current coursework is an in-depth study of podium personality and leadership, in conjunction with preparation for a possible future thesis on rehearsal technique. Works conducted include: Mendelssohn — Laudate Pueri; Wagner — "Steuermann! Laß die Wacht" (Der fliegende Holländer); Liszt — Final chorus (Eine Faust-Symphonie). All three works assigned (chosen) by Dr. Wiles.
• Occasional rehearsal assistant (leading sectionals), University of Texas Concert Chorale, 2009–2010
• Completed four semesters of conducting coursework and/or lessons, as well as other formal and informal training (course auditing, &c.).
• Conductor, Ann Arbor Summer Singers, July 2007. Helped organize and lead rehearsals; helped program and organize concert; handled graphic design (program).
• Conductor, performances and recordings of concert works and incidental scores (see Original Music), 2007–present

• Experience working as an educator with large groups: see entry on the University of Texas Men's Chorus under Conducting, above, and Performance Experience — As a singer.
• Experience teaching music theory to individual students, including harmonic analysis, ear training, and Schenkerian analysis. Fluent in functional analysis (Quinn) and neo-Riemannian analysis (Cohn); extensive experience (especially through choral performance) with Renaissance counterpoint.
• Experience teaching piano to individual students, using a strong multidisciplinary approach, especially including theory. Also see Performance Experience — As a keyboardist for notable skills.
• Experience working with beginning/intermediate students, including young children, adults, and peers
• Awarded teaching fellowship in music theory, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati (contingent upon enrollment in the 2009-2010 academic year)
• Assistant Musical Director, Stratford Festival Shakespeare School, August 2008. Taught and aided students in musical theatre composition and libretto-writing; accompanied rehearsals and performance; worked with individual performers on individual material; handled daily assistant duties (copying music, transporting equipment, &c.).

• Studied piano (lessons and, later, self-taught) since age six. Outstanding ability to improvise and play by ear; extensive experience in Classical, ragtime, and musical theatre styles.
• Keyboardist, Little Shop of Horrors, Yale University, March 2007
• Keyboardist, For Love of the Boy, Yale Undergraduate Musical Theatre Company, February 2006

• Choral singer since age five. Voice part: Tenor II. Outstanding abilities: section leading, sight-singing, holding a part alone, memorization. Fluent in moveable-do solfege.
• Section leader, Central Christian Church (Austin, TX), 2009–2010
• Singer, University of Texas Concert Chorale, 2009–2010
• Singer, University of Texas Men's Chorus, 2009–2010
• Singer, Yale Glee Club and Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers, 2006–2009

• International Tour Co-manager, Yale Glee Club, 2008–2009 — Tour to Argentina and Brazil, May–June 2009. Handled coordination between YGC's management, tour company management, and venues; helped advise tour scheduling; managed daily logistics during travel.
• Student director, Saybrook College Concert Series, 2008–2009. Recruited musicians; planned program; fulfilled stage management duties; designed printed materials (poster and program); created overall template for the concert series.
• Social Chair, Yale Classical Music Society, 2007. Coordinated social and recruitment events; aided with long-term group planning.
• Vice President/Manager/Co-Founder, NuMu: New Musicals at Yale, 2006–2009. Designed and helped implement several plans for group organization; co-planned performances; aided with recruitment and social events; designed website; handled graphic design (posters and programs). In addition, took part in the student body that worked with the University to incorporate NuMu's predecessor, the Shen Musical Theatre Composition Project, into the Music Department curriculum at Yale.
• Vice President/Manager, Davenport College Pops Orchestra, 2006–2007. Designed membership and attendance system and managed attendance; designed library system and managed library; helped coordinate concerts and social events; helped revise group constitution; handled some graphic design duties (programs); played keyboard and percussion when called for.

• Electronic music experience includes: fluency in MIDI technologies; strong experience as a recording engineer, including microphone placement and mastering; long-standing experience in analog (or digitally modeled analog) synthesis; strong familiarity with Cubase through coursework, 2009–2010. Work with all of the above, excepting DAW experience, has been continuous since 2002.
• Student Tech Coordinator, Yale Student Technology Collaborative (division of Information Technology Services), 2007–2009; Student Tech, 2006–2007. Received training in, and performed, diverse duties in computer service; gained extensive experience in customer service/relations; managed public computer clusters. During two years as Coordinator, technical work included: advanced work on in-warranty and out-of-warranty hardware, including servicing motherboards, CPUs, drives, screens, &c., on laptops and desktops; advanced troubleshooting and configuration of popular operating systems; data backup and restoration; diagnosis and resolving of network issues, &c. Also as a Coordinator: managed workload of groups of Student Techs, and aided in advanced issues; co-managed duties in main STC offices; helped train new Student Techs; helped plan administrative changes to STC; aided in graphic design (posters and signs).
• Certified Dell Technician, 2007–2009
• Self-taught web designer/programmer — fluent in HTML; comfortable with CSS, elementary Javascript, and elementary Java

• Graphic Designer, IGIGI (Yale University society for new music), 2008. Designed posters and programs; served on board for general planning and managing of concerts.
• Graphic Designer, Yale Musician, 2007. Helped design layout, logo design, &c.
• Handled graphic design duties for many other groups (see entries under Leadership, Performance: As a conductor, and Technical) and personal projects, 2006–present.

• Untitled work for chamber wind ensemble, 7 min.
• Cardinal Directions, for organ, 12 min.; to be performed by Ray Nagem (Juilliard '11), 2011
• Words from Heaven and Earth, set of six sacred motets for chorus, 25 min.

• God's Grandeur, for SATB chorus and organ; 4 min.
• How to Cross the Susquehanna, for organ, 5 min.; to be performed by Ray Nagem (Juilliard '11), fall 2010
• Bessie's Song to Her Doll, for soprano and piano, 4 min.; performed by Carrie Wachsberger (Syracuse '10), fall 2009
• The Mirror, for chamber orchestra, 15 min.; recorded by students, Bram Wayman, conductor, May 20th, 2009
• Fantasia for Viola and Piano, multi-movement chamber work, 15 min.
• Through Eden, for a cappella SATB chorus, 4 min.; performed by the Yale Glee Club, Jeffrey Douma, conductor, November 14th, 2008
• her she me, for prepared piano and dance (collaboration), my contribution consisting of 3 min.; performed by students, Yale University, April 30th, 2008
• "Justorum Animæ" (4 min.), from Words from Heaven and Earth; performed by the Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers, Robert Bolyard, conductor, Yale College New Music "Choral Fest!," April 4th, 2008
• Movement V: "Memories of the Valley" (8 min.), from Memories of Eberwhite Woods (symphonic poem for large orchestra); recorded by the Yale Symphony Orchestra, Toshiyuki Shimada, conductor, March 5th, 2008
• Movement II (4 min.) from Fantasia for Viola and Piano; performed by counter)induction, Yale College New Music "Chamber Music Galore II!," February 27th, 2008
• Sentinel, for bassoon, horn, violin, and bass, 8 min.; performed by students, IGIGI at the Yale Art Gallery, February 14th, 2008
• "Agnus Dei" (4 min.), from Words from Heaven and Earth; performed by the Ann Arbor Summer Singers, Bram Wayman, conductor, July 25th, 2007
• Straight On 'Til Morning, symphonic poem for large orchestra, 8 min.; workshopped by the Davenport College Pops Orchestra, October 16th, 2005

• Soundtrack to Sundays (film), for harp, viola, and violoncello, 11 min.; performed by students and conducted by the composer, independent student film, Yale University, April–May 2008
• Soundtrack to Edwin Sanchéz's Icarus, for chamber orchestra, 7 min.; performed by students and conducted by the composer, Yale Dramat, October 2007
• Soundtrack to William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, for chamber orchestra, 5 min.; performed by students, University of Michigan Rude Mechanicals, November 2006
• Soundtrack to William Shakespeare's Richard III, for chamber ensemble, 2 min.; performed by students, Yale Undergraduate Shakespeare Company, October 2005

• "Loser of a Guy" (3 min.), from The Knight's Tale; performed by composer and students, NuMu: New Musicals at Yale, September 23rd, 2006
• A Short Tale of the Sea, a musical, for singers and piano, 20 min.; performed by composer and students, Shen Musical Theatre Composition Project of Yale University, April 29th, 2006, and excerpt performed at the Donnell Library Center, New York Public Library, May 2006
• Numerous individual songs

• Eternity Medley: orchestrations of songs for symphony orchestra, soloists, and chorus, 9 min.; performed by the Davenport College Pops Orchestra, April 17th, 2007
• Bright College Years, Alma Mater of Yale University, for full symphony orchestra and chorus, 3 min.; excerpted from the above
• Popular songs arranged for TTBB chorus or quartet: Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms; The Star-Spangled Banner.

• Selection from Words from Heaven and Earth; to be performed by the Vocal Arts Ensemble, Ben Cohen, conductor
• Bessie's Song to Her Doll, to be performed by Hasmig Aroian (Butler School of Music '11), summer 2010; performed by Carrie Wachsberger (Syracuse '10), April 17th, 2010
• Through Eden; performed by the Yale Glee Club, Jeffrey Douma, conductor, 2008–2009
• "Justorum Animæ," from Words from Heaven and Earth; performed by students, Bram Wayman, conductor, Saybrook College Concert Series: "Music in the Master's House," October 19th, 2008; performed by the Yale Glee Club Chamber Singers, Robert Bolyard, conductor, Yale Glee Club Commencement Concert, May 24th, 2008

• Member, Phi Kappa Phi (University of Texas at Austin), 2010–present
• Fenno Heath Award, Yale University, October 2008
• Abraham Beekman Cox Prize, Yale University, April 2008
• Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Award, Yale University, April 2008
• Shen Prize, Yale University, 2005–2006

• Through Eden, Songs of Yale (New Haven: Yale Glee Club, forthcoming, 2011)
• In progress: essay on music ensemble leadership and group psychology
• "The Symphony and the Street" (working title), an unpublished essay on social perceptions of high art, academic establishment, and critical thought, January 2010
• Excerpt from score to The Mirror, Daybook (Saybrook College creative magazine, Yale University), May 2009
• "Justorum Animæ," from Words from Heaven and Earth, presented by Craig Wright, The Juilliard School, June 5th, 2008
• Excerpt from score to Memories of Eberwhite Woods, Daybook, April 2008
• Recorded interview/Podcast: "A Sound Response: Art and Music," Art Talk (Christina Pryor, ed.), Yale University Art Gallery, April 2008
• "Synthetic Symphony — The Future of Broadway: Lessons from the 2003 Musicians' Strike," Yale Musician, April 2007

• Language: French read, written, and spoken fluently
• Travel: Extensive international travel since 1998: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland

References are available upon request.