Statement of Purpose:
My recent music is rather clearcut, in an attempt to highlight detailed melodic and contrapuntal combinations. At this point in my writing, using a complex "prosodic line" (common in contemporary music) would obscure this level of contrapuntal logic. I genuinely appreciate Bach's consistency in both melodic and harmonic writing, as well as the originality of the modulations created out of his disciplined application of counterpoint, and hope that examples from my work convey my own original ideas about contrapuntal writing.
Biographical Summary/Major Compositional Activities:
- Studied with Emma Lou Diemer, Peter Fricker, Marta Ptazynska, UC Santa Barbara, 1978-1982.
- Studied with Ned Rorem at the Curtis Institute, 1984-1986.
- Recipient of MTNA commission, 1991.
- Vice-President, Maine Composers' Forum (MCF), 1992-present.
- Was the "Maine Composer" of the 1997 Gamper Festival, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival.
- The MAX computer music algorithm, "21st Century Baroque", appeared on the "MAX list CD", an internationally distributed CD-ROM, 1999
- "21st Century Baroque" was a featured sound installation at the SEAMUS Y2K electro-acoustic music conference, March 2000.
- Interviewed on the "Kalvos and Damien New Music Bazaar" July 8, 2000 radio show entitled "Basic Instinct".
- Accepted into the American Composers Alliance (ACA), September 2000.
- Commissioned by the Arcady Chamber Ensemble, Bar Harbor, ME, 2001, to write an orchestral work, "Arkadia". Piece performed summer of 2001.
- Participant in the annual "ACA Festival of New American Music" since 2004.
- Accepted into the Graduate composition program, Boston University, 2004.
- Visiting Composer, 2005 Oregon Bach Festival (June-July 2005).