Education
- DMA University of Wisconsin-Madison in choral conducting
- M. Mus. University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.A. Yale University
- Diploma, Frankfurt Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst
Teaching Experience
Lehigh University
R.J. Ulrich Professor of Music and Director of Lehigh University Choral Arts
- Director of 65-voice University Choir & 30-voice Glee Club
- Founder-director of 180-voice Choral Union
- Founder-director and arranger of the University Overtones (vocal jazz) and Glee Club
- Teacher of conducting, advanced analysis
Harvard University: Acting Director of Choral Activities (1984).
Research, Academic Honors, Commissions, etc.
- commissioned by the Lehigh University Choral Union to create a new work, Not An End of Loving, for Chanticleer to celebrate the Choral Union’s 25th anniversary season. Premiere April 17, 2010. Accepted for publication by E.C. Schirmer.
- commissioned by Wellesley College to create a new work for the Wellesley College Choir, Voices of Broken Hearts, for SSA choir and digitally delayed vibraphone (2009). Accepted for publication by E.C. Schirmer.
- commissioned to write a new work, Bonse aba, for Joyful Noise, a special needs choir directed by Allison Fromm Entrekin. Premiered at the Chorus America conference, June 2009.
- commissioned by The Princeton Singers to create a new work, The Twenty-ninth Bather. SSAA choir and optional marimba and violoncello (2009)
- create a new work for the Lehigh University Choir, Fantasia on Jesu, meine Freude, for SATB choir and digitally delayed Baroque recorder.
- commissioned to write a new work for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Music’s Music, for SATB double choir, harp and clarinet (2008). Published by E.C. Schirmer.
- commissioned by the Cavalier Voices of JT Lambert Intermediate School, East Stroudsburg, Pennsyvania to create a new work, Mindful of You for SATB choir (2008)
- commissioned by The Princeton Singers to create a new work, The Windhover, for SATB choir. (2008)
- commissioned to create a new orchestral ballet, Small Steps, Tiny Revolutions, for performance at Lehigh University with the Pascal Rioult Dance Company (2007)
- commissioned to create a new work, Thou Whose Birth, for The Choral Society of Durham for SATB, optional harp (2007)
- commissioned to create a new work for The Princeton Singers, Two Love Songs of St. John of the Cross: 1) Luz y amor; 2) Mi amado for SSAA choir (2007)
- create a new work with Arati Shah-Yukich, Shamalyo, for soloist, tabla and choir premiered by The Princeton Singers (2007)
- commissioned to create a new work, We Two Boys Together Clinging, for tenor-baritone duet, marimba/vibes and violoncello (2007)
- create new work for the Lehigh University Philharmonic, Bedazzled, for solo electric violin and orchestra. (2006)
- commissioned to create a new work for the South Bend Chamber Chorus, The Choir Invisible, for SATB choir, organ, harp and percussion (2006)
- commissioned to create a new work, We two, for a consortium of nine men’s choirs under the auspices of Cantus (Minneapolis, MN) (2006-7). Partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
- create a new work for The Princeton Singers and area high school choirs, Musica animae (2006)
- create a new work for Lehigh University Choral Arts, Child of Song (2005)
- create a ballet-concerto for Lehigh University Choral Arts and Eugene Albulescu, pianist, The White Raven (2005)
- commissioned by The Princeton Singers to create a new work, Angelus (2005)
- commissioned by the Berks Classical Children’s Chorus to create a new work, I Cannot Dance, O Lord (2005)
- commissioned by The Harvard Glee Club to create a new work, Dulcis amor (2004)
- commissioned by The Princeton Singers to create a new work, Amo! (2004)
- commissioned by The Phoenix Bach Choir to create a new work, La Eternidad (2004)
- Commissioned by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum to create a new work, Munus (A Gift) to honor their director, Jameson Marvin (2003)
- commissioned by the Calvin Institute for Christian Worship to create a new work, The Light Within (2003)
- Commissioned by The Texas Lutheran University Choir, to write You are a Letter from Christ (2003)
- commissioned to by the Lower McCungie Middle School to create a new work, Perhaps They Are Not Stars (2002)
- commissioned by The Princeton Singers to create a new work, Never more will the wind (2002)
- commissioned by the Dyer Family to write Alleluia (2002)
- commissioned by the Cathedral Choral Society to write Angel Fire (2002)
- commissioned by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra to write Earth Wind Fire– Concertino for 2 Harps and Orchestra (2002)
- create a new work for Lehigh University Choral Arts, American Songs – Sacred and Profane (2002)
- commissioned by the University of Illinois Choir to create a new work, Everyone Sang (2001)
- Commissioned by Princeton Singers to create a double choir work, Dudaryku, for The Princeton Singers and Chanticleer (2001)
- create a new symphonic work for Lehigh University Choral Arts, Carmina amoris (2001)
- Commissioned by Staples High School to write new work, Peace on Earth (2000)
- Commissioned by The Princeton United Methodist Church, Unless the Lord Build the House (2000)
- Commissioned by The Princeton Singers to create a new work annually (1999-)
- Commissioned by Connecticut Choral Artists to create a new work, Laudare (1999)
- Commissioned by Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra to create a new work. Orison– A Child’s Prayer (1999)
- Commissioned by Bucks County Chorale to create a new work, Nunc Dimmitis– He Gives Us Joy (1997)
- Commissioned by Central Bucks High School to create a new work, When He Shall Die (1997)
- Commissioned by Connecticut Pro Arte Singers to create a new work, The Return (1997)
- Commissioned by Chanticleer to write in time of (1997)
- Commissioned by Chanticleer to write two new works: There is No Rose of Such Virtue and Gaudete (1995)
- Received composer grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to create a new work (1995)
- Nominated for 1992 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) National Professor of the Year
- Grant to study computer applications of fractal theory and speech synthesis at the Brooklyn Center for Computer Music (1989)
- Artist-in-residence at the Leighton Artist Colony, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada (1989)
- Awarded Leigh highest teaching award, the Stabler Award, (2010)
- Awarded Lehigh’s highest research award, the Eleanor and Jospeh F. Libsch Research Award (2000)
Awarded Lehigh’s teaching award, the R.R. & E.C. Hillman Award (1998)