Education

• DMA, Composition; The Juilliard School, 2004; studies with Robert  Beaser.
• MM, Composition; The Juilliard School, 1999; studies with John  Corigliano.
• BM, Composition; The Curtis Institute of Music, 1997; studies with  Ned Rorem.

Positions Held & Teaching Duties

• 2005-present; Faculty, College Division; The Juilliard School.
Courses taught:
- Ear Training Ix/IIx (graduate-level instrumentalists)
• 2005-present; Faculty, Evening Division; The Juilliard School.
Courses taught:
- Orchestration
• 2005-present; Adjunct Associate Professor of Music; Fordham  University.
Courses taught:
- Musicianship I: Counterpoint
- Musicianship II: Diatonic Harmony
• 2004-present; Assistant Faculty, Graduate Studies Dept.; The  Juilliard School.
Courses taught (working as assistant to Prof. Pia Gilbert):
- The Second Viennese School Graduate Seminar
- Composers and Choreographers Workshop
• 2003-05; Faculty, Music Dept.; Bard High School Early College.
Courses taught:
- Composition Seminar (undergraduate level)
- Music History (undergraduate level)
- Theory (undergraduate level)
- Musicianship (high school level)
• 2001-04; Adjunct Faculty, College Division; The Juilliard School.
Courses taught:
- Ear Training Ix/IIx (graduate-level instrumentalists)
• 2001-present; Faculty, Pre-College Division; The Juilliard School.
Courses taught:
- Theory (all levels from diatonic harmony through advanced theory)
- Counterpoint (for composition majors)
- Composition instruction (for non-majors)
• 2001-03; Instructor; The Connecticut School of Music.
Courses taught:
- Private instruction in composition, theory, ear training, and piano
• 1993-present; Artist Faculty; The Max Aronoff Viola Institute.
Summer festival courses in theory, composition, and as lecturer on  various topics.

Teaching Fellowships

• 2001-03, Teaching Fellow, Graduate Studies Dept., The Juilliard  School.
Courses taught (as assistant to Prof. Pia Gilbert):
- The Second Viennese School Graduate Seminar
• 1998-2001, Teaching Fellow, Ear Training Dept., The Juilliard School.
Courses taught (as assistant to Ms. Mary Anthony Cox):
- Ear Training I & II (undergraduate instrumentalists)
- Ear Training Ix/IIx (graduate-level instrumentalists)
- Ear Training Ix Voice (graduate-level vocalists)

Awards and Distinctions

• 2004 Morton Gould Young Composer Award, The ASCAP Foundation.
- Double Aria for Violin Alone
• 2003 Morton Gould Young Composer Award, The ASCAP Foundation.
- Firebrand for Orchestra
• 2000 Fellowship to Aspen Music Festival Master Class in Composition.
• 2000 Selected Representative from United States, Kyoto International  Music Students Festival, Kyoto, Japan.
• 1999 Morton Gould Young Composer Award, The ASCAP Foundation.
- String Quartet
• 1995 Charles Ives Scholarship, American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• 1994 Selected Composer-Participant, The Conductors Institute,  Hartford, Conn.

Residencies

• Seaside Institute (Seaside, Fla.), “Escape to Create,” 2004.
• Northwest Sinfonietta (Seattle, Wash.), Composer-in-Residence,  2000-01.
• Max Aronoff Viola Institute (Seattle, Wash.), Composer-in-Residence,  1993-present.

Select Commissions

• 2006 West, Washington State Music Educators Association All-state  Orchestra.
• 2006 Blue Water, Chamber Concerto for Violin, Piano and String  Quartet, BargeMusic Chamber Music Series.
• 2005 Orchestration of Brahms’s Variations on a Theme of Paganini,  School of American Ballet Spring Workshop.
• 2005 Parting for Viola Alone, Max Aronoff Viola Institute.
• 2004 Pieces of Reich for 2 Pianos, Morriss Center Dance (for  Benjamin Millepied’s Danses Concertantes).
• 2003 Double Aria for Violin Alone, Morriss Center Dance (for  Benjamin Millepied’s Danses Concertantes)
• 2003 String Trio, New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute.
• 2002 Firebrand, National Symphony Orchestra.
• 2001 Intrada, Northwest Sinfonietta.
• 2000 Canzona for Violin and Piano, Kyoto International Music  Students Festival.
• 2000 Une rose dans les ténèbres (after Ravel) for Clarinet, Viola  and Cello, Aspen Contemporary Ensemble.
• 1997 String Quartet, Max Aronoff Viola Institute.
• 1996 On an East Wind from the Wars for Baritone and Small Orchestra,  Northwest Sinfonietta.