Curriculum vitae

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)