Curriculum Vitae

• Rutgers University. Ph.D., 1995
  Symphony in Five Movements: A Presentation and Analytical Discussion of a New Work in Symphonic Form (UMI, 1995).
  Music Composition with Charles Wuorinen and Robert Moevs, computer music with Ron Surak, history of theory with Floyd Grave, Schenkerian and 20th Century analysis with Richard Chrisman, piano with Paul Hoffman
  
• American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France, 1992
  Composition with Philippe Manoury and Gilbert Amy, aural skills with Byron Adams
  
• Trenton State College. M.A. in music composition, 1990; B.A. in music, 1987
  Composition with Laurence Taylor, piano with Shirley Batchelor and John Irvin
  

• Westminster Conservatory, Rider University, 2005-present
  Part-time instructor for Westminster Choir College community conservatory, a division of Rider University. Private and studio lessons in piano, organizing periodic student recitals.
  
• Brookdale Community College, 2004-present
  Adjunct faculty for music department in two-year undergraduate program. Classes include fundamentals, music technology and music appreciation.
• Middlesex County Arts High School, 1997-present
  Classroom teacher for college-bound students. Classes include music composition and contemporary music analysis; classical chamber music performance; and rock history, literature and performances techniques.
• Mercy College, 2001-2002
Music appreciation for undergraduates in a distance-learning setting, using WebCT software, HTML, and email. This course welcomes both native speakers and ESL of widely varying ages and musical backgrounds.
• The Peddie School, Fine Arts, 1996-97
  Music theory, composition, and general music at a private preparatory high school
• Rutgers University, 1991-94
  Introduction to music and music theory for classes of up to 40 undergraduates
• Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), 1988-90
  Music department accompanist for over 20 students per semester
• Private piano instructor, 1985-present
• Trenton State College, 1984-87
  Substitute instructor for Class Piano. Tutor for students of English as a second language

• "Antheil's Machine: The Airplane Sonata as the Foundation of Antheil's Early Style," George Antheil Music Festival, Trenton, N.J., March, 2003
• "Computer Crescendo," profile of Paul Lansky, Times of Trenton, April 4, 1999
• "String of Success," profile of Steve Mackey, Times of Trenton, January 17, 1999
• "George Antheil's Music and Career," Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, 1993
• "Robert Moevs' Heptachronon for solo cello," Perspectives of New Music 35/1 (December 1997)

• Curator and performer in Music of Invention monthly concert series at the Black Box of Asbury Park, 2004-2005
• Division by Four Moons, guitar, scheduled for release in 2004 by Stanley Alexandrowicz on an Albany Records CD
• Sound designer for animated short The Best Birthday Ever With Love, by video artists Chris Hartelius and Frank Grecco, scheduled for release in 2004.
• Participant in the George Antheil Music Festival, an international symposium organized by the Composers Guild of New Jersey and Les Amis de George Antheil, Trenton, N.J., March 2003. Lecturer on Antheil's "Airplane" Sonata.
• Presented a one-hour overview of George Antheil's music to a meeting of the Central Jersey Piano Teachers' Forum, November, 2002.
• Meet The Composer grant, March 2001
• Co-founder of the Telesis New Music Ensemble of New York City, 2000
• Composer Participant, June in Buffalo, SUNY at Buffalo, 2000, 1999 and 1996
• Recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship, February 2000
• Featured composer in a series of four concerts at the Arts Council of Princeton with a grant from the Times of Trenton, September 1998-March 1999
• Piano Suite 1 published by Musica21, November 1998
• Composer Participant, Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, University of North Texas Summer Session at Crested Butte, Colorado, 1998, computer music
• Composition Competition Winner, Composers Guild of New Jersey, 1993, 1994

• April 2003: The Action Underneath, piano solo, premiered by the composer on a program of new work at the Princeton Arts Council at the invitation of jazz bassist and experimental composer Wilbo Wright and the Trenton Avant Garde
• March 1999: Lazarus, for piano solo, dedicated to commissioning pianist/composer Carson Cooman, who later gave the premiere. The work completes the four-movement Sacred Preludes, begun in 1993
• November 1998: My Undoing, solo electric five-string violin with computer soundfiles, premiered by Sabrina Berger, who commissioned the work in 1997
• August 1998: Les Femmes Armees (1997) premiered in Germany by flutist Elizabeth McNutt, who commissioned the work in 1996. McNutt also gave the work its U.S. premiere at a solo concert in the University of California at Berkeley, January 1999
• October 1997: The Sorting Moon, a half-hour multimedia work for narrator, soprano sax, two guitars and percussion with computer, dancer, video and large painted backdrops, commissioned by the Composers Guild of New Jersey, premiered on the grounds of the New Jersey State Museum
• September 1997: Pioneer 10 premiered at the Trenton Avant Garde Festival, as duet with performance artist Deirdre McGrail
• June 1996: Gemini (1994, rev. 1996), premiere conducted by Eric Oña, and In Love's Absence (1994) at June in Buffalo
• October 1994:"The Second Coming" for soprano, flute and piano on a poem by Yeats, the Rive-Gauche Concerti at the Festival del Flauto, Torino, Italy
• August 1993, Division by Four Moons, guitar, commissioned and premiered by Stanley Alexandrowciz at Trenton Avant Garde Festival 1993. Alexandrowicz also performed the New York premiere at Christ & St. Stephens Church, 1995
• July 1992: Libra, four movements for solo viola, premiered by Sabrina Berger in Fontainebleau Palace, Fontainebleau, France

• Harpsichordist and pianist performing contemporary chamber repertoire with Telesis Trio (two guitars and harpsichord) and solo keyboard repertoire including Franck Prelude, Chorale & Fugue, Henze Six Absences, Kucera Rosen fur Rosa, J.S. Bach Sonata No. 1 for Solo Violin arranged for keyboard by the composer
• Performer, vocalist and conductor of original music, including solo, chamber, choral, multimedia and songs in popular styles

ARTS ADMINISTRATION
• Black Box of Asbury Park 2005-present
  Vice President of the board, producer, publicist and music curator for 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts presenting organization dedicated to the revitalization of downtown Asbury Park through promotion of the arts and arts education.
• Trenton Avant Garde Inc. 1991-2000
  Co-founder, press officer, fund-raiser, producer, performer and lecturer for 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts presenting organization. TAGFest, an annual one-day all-volunteer arts festival in Mill Hill Park, Trenton, attracted about 2,000 people over the course of a day and featured as many as 250 artists of all disciplines. Sole administrator of TAG's George Antheil Project, writing successful corporate and public grants, and producing four major concerts of Antheil's work. The project resulted in a CD of Antheil's music, as part of Naxos' American Classics series.
EDITORIAL
• Asbury Park Press, 2002-present
  Freelance writer on classical music concerts and arts events, specializing in coverage on the local level
• Musical Heritage Society, 2002-2004
  Production manager for independent classical music club and recording label. Duties include selecting repertoire, planning and laying out catalogs, coordinating design, marketing and technical teams in these projects, writing and editing content for catalogs and Web site, designing and coding HTML pages for Web and e-mail.
• horsesmouth, 2001-2002
  Senior copy editor for professional Web site in the financial services field. Duties included managing freelancers; rewriting in-house style manual; establishing guidelines for story types; rewriting articles on financial services, and headlining, copy editing, coding, proofing and publishing Web content and e-mailed newsletters.
• TheStreet.com, 1999-2001
  Senior copy editor and reporter for online financial news journal. Duties included all facets of production of TheStreet View, the company's most expensive newsletter, targeting an audience of hedge fund managers; publishing via Web and e-mail.
• Newark Star-Ledger, 2001-2002
  Freelance writer on classical music concerts, profiles and recordings for state's largest daily newspaper
• The Times of Trenton, 1988-1998
  Copy editor and writer on music and the arts and general news for daily Newhouse-owned newspaper, with a circulation of about 90,000. Featured writer for the paper's Sunday Arts & Leisure section, and, for two years, a weekly columnist on the visual arts. Wrote drama and music criticism, concert previews and performer profiles.
• The Franklin News-Record, 1987-88
  Winner of three New Jersey Press Association awards in news and news analysis for work as a reporter covering all aspects of Franklin Township. The News-Record is owned by the Princeton Packet organization.

• Programming: CMUSIC, Csound and Max/MSP
• Notation: Finale 2000
• Editing: Peak, Csound and SoundHack
• Recording: Protools and Paris
• Hardware: Yamaha Disklavier, digital and analog synthesizers, and a wide variety of other recording and performing devices

• Composers Guild of New Jersey
• College Music Society
• Society of Composers, Inc.
• Society for Music Theory
• American Music Center
• Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers
• Music Teachers National Association
• Central Jersey Piano Teachers' Forum
• Board Member of Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
• Board Member of the Trenton Avant Garde
• Comité de Honneur, Les Amis de George Antheil