CURRICULUM VITAE

COURSES TAUGHT AT COLLEGE AND GRADUATE LEVEL:

September 2000 – 2005 The Juilliard School New York, NY
Courses: Orchestration, Advanced Orchestration

September 2004 – the present The Boston Conservatory Boston, MA
Courses:

20th Century Music Survey
Advanced Analysis of 20th Century Music
Instrumentation
Advanced Instrumentation
Schenkerian Analysis
Advanced Solfege and Score Reading
Undergraduate Composition Seminar
Graduate Composition Seminar
Harmony and Counterpoint I and II
Ear Training 2 – 4
Music Fundamentals
Graduate Remedial Ear Training
Graduate Remedial Harmony
Secondary Piano for Composers
Independent Study
Private Composition

September 2003 – May 2004 Middlebury College Middlebury, VT
Courses:

Theory Through Composition I and II
Advanced Composition
Orchestration
Music Fundamentals
Independent Study/Thesis Advising

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL:

September 1996 – May 2000 Teaching Fellow, College Division
Courses: first- and second- year music theory (diatonic harmony and counterpoint)

September 2000 – May 2001 Composition Department Assistant, Pre-College Division
Private instruction of composition

September 1996 – May 2000 Teaching Assistant, College Division
Courses assisted: graduate review; third- and fourth- year music theory

September 1998 – May 2000 Tutor, College Division
Graduate review

September 1997 – December 1998 Tutor, College Division
Instruction of diatonic and chromatic harmony, and graduate review

July – August 1998 Faculty, Juilliard Summer Dance Program
Course: an introductory class in music analysis and composition for dancers of high-school age, in a workshop setting that included rhythmic notation, improvisation and a body-percussion project

OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

October 1997 Composer-in-Residence, Interlochen Arts Academy
Instructed private composition

July 2000 – May 2001 Piano faculty, The 92nd Street Y
Instructed privately on a variety of levels, ages ranging from four years to adult

March 1998 – February 1999 Piano faculty, Turtle Bay Music School New York, NY

January 1998 – September 1998 Piano faculty, Concordia Conservatory Bronxville, NY
Instructed beginning levels to young children

September 1997 – June 1998 Faculty, Habonim Synagogue New York, NY
Instructed Hebrew at fourth grade level

June – August 1995 Faculty, Belvoir Terrace Performing Arts Camp Lenox, MA
Instructed piano, composition and music theory

August 1995 Faculty, The Williams Camp at Belvoir Terrace Lenox, MA
Instructed piano and composition to people with Williams Syndrome

TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS:

Music composition (both privately and in seminar)
Diatonic harmony
Chromatic harmony
16th- and 18th- century counterpoint
20th-century music history and analysis
Instrumentation, orchestration and advanced orchestration
Introduction to Schenkerian analysis
Ear training (beginning through advanced levels)
Score reading
Musicianship
Keyboard harmony
Studies in transcription
History of Jewish music
Introduction to contemporary Israeli classical music, and analysis

Performance-related courses:
Piano performance
Chamber-music coaching

AWARDS AND HONORS:

2003 Morton Gould Young Composer Award, ASCAP Foundation

2003 New Juilliard Ensemble Composers Competition
Prize: Commission by Joel Sachs and the New Juilliard Ensemble

2001 – 2002 Fulbright Scholarship
Research at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem, Israel

April 2001 American Composers Orchestra Whitaker Reading

May 1995 Charles Ives Scholarship, The American Academy of Arts and Letters

1998 – 2000 William Hearst and C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellowships, The Juilliard School

1995 – 1996 Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize, The Juilliard School

1993, 1990, 1988, 1987, 1986 ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers

1993 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts: First Award in Composition

Juilliard School Student Composers Competition

1991 Fromm Music Foundation Grant (Harvard University)

1988, 1984 BMI Awards to Student Composers

RECENT WORKS AND PERFORMANCES:

After the Victory (2006) For orchestra and chorus	Commission, Grand Rapids Symphony David Lockington, conductor
Tehinnot (2004) World premiere A song cycle for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano Aeolian Chamber Players Reut Ben-Zeev, soprano	Bowdoin Summer Music Festival
Al ha-Shminit: Interludes on a Bygone Mode A chamber suite for twelve Dalit Hadass Warshaw, theremin instruments	World premiere, Alice Tully Hall, New York (2003) (2003) New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs conducting
Kiddush Ha-Levanah for soprano and piano (2002) Reut Ben-Zeev, soprano Dalit Hadass Warshaw, piano	World premiere, New York [Performances in Paul Hall at the Juilliard School, Middlebury College, and Greenwich House as part of the “Cutting Edge” Concert Series ] Radio broadcast pending, Kol ha-Muzikah, Israel Rona Israel, soprano Sara Tal, piano
Camille’s Dance (2000)	World premiere, Grand Rapids Symphony (2002) David Lockington, conductor Whitaker Reading: American Composers Orchestra (2001) Dennis Russel Davies, conductor
Beethoven’s Symphony Op. 26 (2002)	World premiere, Camerata NY (2002) The Beethoven Festival (Friends of the Arts) [An orchestral transcription of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in Ab Major, Op. 26, including the composer’s own arrangement of the “Marcia Funebre”]
[See accompanying list of works]

May 26, 2002: Broadcast of Camille’s Dance on “SymphonyCast,” WNPR

[Other numerous broadcasts throughout the United States and Israel, including features on “Good Morning America,” “The Listening Room” (WQXR), and the National Israeli Radio Station]

RESIDENCIES:

1998, 2002, 2006 Yaddo Arts Colony
1998 MacDowell Arts Colony

PUBLICATIONS AND THEORETICAL PAPERS:

‘From Marcia Funebre to Trauermarsch: Beethoven’s Op. 26 and the Orchestra.’ – Doctoral thesis, The Juilliard School.

‘Beethoven’s Symphony Op. . . . 26 – or, Leonore WHO??!’ – The Juilliard Journal (February 2003).

‘Music as Metaphor.’ – The Juilliard Journal (September 2002). [Original title: ‘American Music Redefined? The Composer Speaks.’]

‘Williams Syndrome: Pondering the Complexities of a Musical Gift.’ – The Juilliard Journal (November 1996).

‘Thus the Swallows Replied: Metrical Unrest in Brahms’s “Das Madchen Spricht” (Op. 107, No. 3).”

‘Fantasy Within a “Phantasie”: Paradox in Mozart’s K. 475.’

‘Rediscovering the Ternary in Mozart’s K. 475: The Hunt for a Fantasy’s Lost Structure’

COMPOSITION STUDIES:

The Juilliard School:
Samuel Adler
Milton Babbitt
David Del Tredici

Columbia University:
David Rakowski
Jonathan Kramer
Fred Lerdahl
Jack Beeson

Aspen Music Festival:
Jacob Druckman
Bernard Rands

Rubin Academy of Music and Dance:
Tsvi Avni

Ecoles des Beaux Arts Americaines de Fontainebleau:
Betsy Jolas
Andre Bon

STUDIES IN MUSIC THEORY AND ANALYSIS:

The Juilliard School:
Carl Schachter
Claudio Spies
Milton Babbitt

Columbia University:
Jonathan Kramer
Fred Lerdahl
George Edwards
Ian Bent

PIANO STUDIES:

The Juilliard School:
Martin Canin
Yocheved Kaplinsky
Jonathan Feldman

THEREMIN STUDIES:

Clara Rockmore

RELEVANT COURSE WORK:

The Juilliard School: Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis (Carl Schachter)
Analysis for Performers (Carl Schachter)
Analytical Methods (Jonathan Dawe)
Music Reference and Research (Jane Gottlieb)
Advanced Writing on Music (David Hamilton)
Studies in Style Criticism (L. Michael Griffel)
Doctoral Topics (Joel Sachs)
The Study of Manuscripts (Claudio Spies)
Introduction to Music Technology (Edward Bilous)
Arts in Education (Edward Bilous)
Orchestral Conducting (Miguel Harth-Bedoya)
Choral Conducting (Judith Clurman)
Vocal Accompanying (Brian Zeger)
Composition Seminar (John Corigliano)
Composition Practicum (David Del Tredici)
Columbia University: Pitch-Space Theory (Fred Lerdahl)
Introduction to Schenkerian Analysis (Jeff Nichols)
Rhythm and Meter (Jonathan Kramer)
Pretonal and Tonal Analysis (George Edwards)
Twentieth Century Styles and Techniques (George Edwards)
Opera and Society (Edward Said)
The Science of Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

DOCTORAL SEMINAR:

Special Projects (Jack Beeson)

FESTIVALS:

Aspen Music School: Advanced Masterclass for Composers (1994)
Les Ecoles Americains des Beaux Arts de Fontainebleau (1996, 1997, 1999, 2001)
International Piano Festival of Jerusalem at Tel Hai, Israel (1996)

AFFILIATIONS:

BMI
American Music Center
College Music Society

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