Department of Music

Composition and Theory (PhD)

B.M. Composition, The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance; M.M Composition, Mannes College The New School for Music

Current position: Lecturer, The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance

Awards and honors: 2017 Council member of the Israeli Composers League, 2016-2017 Irving G. Fine Fellowship in Music Composition, 2016 Rosenblum Prize for Promising Young Artist, 2012 Klon Award for young composers

Performances include: Castleton Festival, ICE, Collage New Music, Lydian String Quartet, North-South Consonance, Meitar Ensemble, Les Cris de Paris, Atar trio, Ensemble Recherche du Midi, Uroboros Ensemble

Instrument: piano

Website: www.taliaamar.com

Composition and Theory (MA)

B.Mus Composition and Organ Performance, University of Oregon

Undergraduate Thesis: Space, Sound, and the Digital Organ

Performances include: eighth blackbird, University of Oregon Sospiro New Music Choir, American Creators Ensemble, American Creators Chorus

Instrument: organ

Music Composition and Theory (PhD)

BA Music Composition and Theory and Bassoon Performance, University of Florida; MFA Music Composition and Theory, Brandeis University

Performance Activities: Bassoonist; New Philharmonia Orchestra, American Chamber Winds

Instruments: bassoon, piano

Musicology (PhD)

BA (Theology) Yonsei University; BM Berklee College of Music (Jazz Composition & Film Scoring); MM (Jazz Studies–Composition) New England Conservatory; DMA Candidate (Jazz Studies-Composition & Musicology minor) New England Conservatory

Research Interests: "Jazz Criticism (Classical and Ethnic Idioms in Jazz)" and "Music and Religion"

Professional Activities: Pianist and Composer; Faculty at Emerson College; Director of Contemporary Music at Somerville Community Baptist Church; Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra; NEC Jazz Composers' Workshop Orchestra; Mina Cho Jazz Group & Fusion Jazz Orchestra; Former Piano Faculty and Ensemble Coach at Winchester Community Music School

Composition and Theory (PhD)

BA Composition, Classical Guitar Performance, University of California, Davis; MFA Composition and Theory, Brandeis University

Recent Works: Original score for "Nightingale," an original movement theatre piece produced by Davis Shakespeare Ensemble, winner of Best of the Fringe, San Francisco Fringe Festival; "Luminoso Fragmentoso," for sinfonietta and soprano, premiered at the Wellesley Composers Conference; "String Quartet Number One," premiered by the Lydian String Quartet.

Instrument: guitar

Musicology (MFA)

BA Telecommunications (Production), Indiana University Media School; Minor in Music, Jacobs School of Music.

Academic Interests: American popular music, American folk traditions, Music in multimedia (Film and video game music), Music and Culture.

Performance Activities: IU All-Campus Jazz Ensemble, Recorded and performed with members of 1212 Records and local musicians in Los Angeles.

Musicology (PhD)

Licenciado in Modern Languages/Linguistics; Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela. 

Performance Activities: El Sistema, National Youth Orchestra System of Venezuela. Latin American Flute Academy. Merida State Symphony Orchestra.

Composition and Theory (PhD)

BM Jazz Studies, Conservatorio “Licinio Refice” di Frosinone (ITA); MM Saxophone, Conservatorio “Licinio Refice” di Frosinone (ITA); MM Composition, Royal Academy of Music, London (UK)

Performances: Dario Calderone, Anna Clementi, Hugh Watkins, Alexandra Wood, Septura Brass Septett, Mise-en Festival, EmuFest, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Festival Artescienza

Instrument: saxophone

Musicology (PhD)

BM Bassoon Performance and Musical Arts, Eastman School of Music; MM, GD Bassoon Performance, New England Conservatory

Academic interests: the Italian madrigal, Renaissance vocal polyphony, Monteverdi, 19th Century opera

Undergraduate Thesis: The Importance of Text, An Exploration of antithesis in Petrarch's Il Canzoniere and the Italian Madrigal

Performances: Bassoonist; Fiati Five Wind Quintet, Phoenix (Boston, MA), Callithumpian Consort, Boston Philharmonic

Instrument: bassoon

Musicology (PhD)

BA Music Theory and Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame

Academic interests: Late 19th century orchestral music; music of Chopin; American music

Undergraduate thesis: Chopin's Mallorcan Preludes, A comparative and contextual analysis of Chopin's Op. 28 Nos. 2, 4, 10, 21

Instrument: trumpet

Musicology (PhD)

BM in Jazz and Commercial Music, Roosevelt University; MA in Jazz History and Research, Rutgers University; MFA in Musicology, Brandeis University

Academic interests: Music theory and analysis; music and meaning; history of music theory; music theory pedagogy; Viennese music; ragtime and early 20th-c. American popular music

Awards: Hollace Anne Schafer Memorial Award, American Musicological Society, New England Chapter; Best Paper Award, GAMuT 2016, University of North Texas

Master’s theses: Reading Rudolph Reti: Toward a New Understanding of The Thematic Process in Music; A Cultural Reappraisal of Jazz History: Some Preliminary Researches and Analyses on American Vernacular Music

Instruments: harpsichord, clarinet

Musicology (PhD)

BM Jazz Double Bass Performance, Sydney Conservatory, MM, Jazz Double Bass Performance, New England Conservatory.

Academic Interests. Jazz Pedagogy, Jazz: Hard bob, Modal Jazz, Bebop, The Swing Era. 

Undergraduate Thesis: All In the Family – The Legacy of Ray Brown and his Influence on Jazz Bassist Christian McBride 

Notable Performances: Maria Schneider, Aaron Goldberg, Kurt Elling, Monty Alexander, Terence Blanchard, Donny McCaslin, George Garzone, Miguel Zenon, Dave Douglas, Bob Moses, Jason Palmer, Ernie Watts and Will Vincent. 

Instrument: double bass

Musicology (PhD)

BA Music, Oberlin College

Academic interests: Dmitri Shostakovich, Gavriil Popov; Boris Asafyev, Ivan Sollertinsky, and Soviet Symphonic Theory; Sonata Theory, The String Quartet

Performance Activities: Violinist; member of the Boston Philharmonic

Instrument: violin

Musicology (PhD)

BM Viola Performance at The Boston Conservatory; MA Writing and Publishing (with poetry focus) at DePaul University

Academic Interests: Oral tradition and improvisation, The influence of literary forms on music, semiotics and musical notation

Past Research: Henry James, Renku and Haikai no Renga form poetry, Traditional Irish folk music, 20^th and 21^st Century String Quartet repertoire  

Performance Experience: Lucerne Festival Academy (2013, 2015, 2017), Academy of Irish Music (Chicago), Houndstooth String Quartet (Chicago), Liturgical Choral Director (Archdiocese of Chicago), Haiga Duo, Focus Group LLC., 100 Ducks

Publications: “Hidden Channel” (Sligo), “Crook and Folly” (Chicago), “Farm Town Magazine”, “Easy Magazine” (Chicago), “The Garden” (Boston)

Instrument: viola

Composition and Theory (PhD)

BM Clarinet Performance, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Composition Minor; MM Clarinet Performance, Yale School of Music, Composition Minor

Recent Works: "Subtraction" - clarinet and live electronics; "Gnaw" - two electric guitars, obbligato trumpet, and live electronics (International Contemporary Ensemble); "Soil" - computer/live electronics; "Solo" - clarinet, trombone, viola, cello, and prepared piano (Ensemble Intercontemporain)

Notable recent and upcoming events: guest artist talk and solo recital at University of Oxford, UK (February, 2016), guest artist talk and solo recital at Northern Arizona University (March, 2017), clarinetist with Ulysses Ensemble at ManiFeste, Aldeburgh Festival, and Royaumont Foundation (Summer, 2017), solo recital at Dark Music Days festival in Reykjavik, Iceland (January, 2018), guest artist at Shepherd School of Music, Rice University with Nunc Players (February, 2018), visiting artist talk and solo recital at Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, MD (March, 2018).

Instruments: clarinet, piano, electric guitar

Composition and Theory (PhD)

BA Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität; Diplom Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien; MM New England Conservatory of Music

Instrument: piano

Composition and Theory (PhD)

BM Composition, Brigham Young University, Spanish Minor; MFA Composition and Theory, Brandeis University

Recent Works: "Sonata for Piano and Tape," "Sedimentary Displacement for Organ and Electronics," "Brightly Beams our Father's Mercy for choir and strings," "Ambient Variation," fixed media piece included on 2012 SEAMUS Miniatures: ReCaged CD

Instruments: euphonium, trombone, voice

Musicology (PhD) 

BA, Music, University of Hawaii at Mānoa; MM, Voice Performance, Stony Brook University; MSM, Choral Conducting, University of Notre Dame. 

Academic interests: musico-theological analysis; 20th & 21st-c. stagings of Baroque oratorios; 'ritualizations' of Bach's Passions; hermeneutics, theology, & religious affect; Gerald Finzi and the English Musical Renaissance. 

Undergraduate Thesis: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the English Sound: A Study on Musical and Cultural Synthesis in Twentieth-Century England. 

Published Works: "Gerald Finzi and the English Musical Renaissance" (The Finzi Journal, UK, 2018). 

Performances: singer (lyric baritone); conductor; international tours with the UH Mānoa Chamber Singers (as singer) & the Notre Dame Children's Choir (as conductor) 

Instruments: voice, conducting.

Composition and Theory (MFA)

BM Composition, University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA)

Performances include: The Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra, eighth blackbird, Gamelan Giri Murti, UNCSA Cantata Singers, Jubal Fulks, Robin Meiksins, Carina Sturdy, Low and Lower

Instrument: piano

Website: www.lentovivace.com

Musicology (PhD)

BM, Piano Performance, Music Theory and Composition Minor (academic honors), New England Conservatory; MM, Piano Performance (academic honors), New England Conservatory; pre-college program, Piano Performance, Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía

Academic Interests: philosophy of music; music and narrative; Wagner; Mahler; Scriabin; Platonic and German Idealist aesthetics in 19th-century music; musical thought in Ancient Greece; Chopin. Undergraduate Thesis: Western Art Music Inspired by Oral Tradition: A Semiotic Interpretation of Works by Bach, Mozart, Liszt and Bartók.

Awards and Honors: New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, winner; Pietro Argento International Music Competition, first prize and grand prize "Premio Critica;" Panhellenic Delphic Poetry Games, first prize; Gina Bachauer International Music Association, scholar.

Titles: President, Anafæos Charity Foundation (Cyprus, 2015-present); Ambassador, Fundación Nicos & Manuella Vardinoyannis (Spain, 2009-2011).

Published Work: Atrapos ("Trail"), poetry collection, Poema Editions & Magazine (2016); eight selected poems, Great Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature of Haris Patsis (2017).

Performances: Jordan Hall; Grand Hall of Laeiszhalle; St. Alexander Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace; Athens Concert Hall; Auditorio Sony; Mirabell Palace; Hohensalzburg Castle; Weissenstein Castle. Rising Stars in the Kremlin International Music Festival; Steinway & Sons International Music Festival; Collegium Musicum International Music Festival; Mozarteum International Summer Academy.

Instrument: piano

Musicology (PhD)

BA Music, Brigham Young University, Chemistry minor; MM Organ Performance, Brigham Young University

Academic Interests: Baroque of North and Central Germany; J. S. Bach; intersections of theology and music in the Reformation and Counter Reformation; history of tonality, temperament, and tuning systems

Instrument: organ

Composition and Theory (PhD)

BM The University of Akron; MM Cleveland State University.

Recent performances and projects: “Almost a New Man” (April 15th, 16th & 20th 2011) a piece for film, electronic sounds and cello commissioned by the No Exit New Music Ensemble for performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; “Ascent” (September 15th, 16th & 17th) a live soundtrack for saxophone and piano joint commissioned by the Cleveland Ingenuity Festival and NASA for performance at IngenuityFest 2011, Cleveland

Instrument: piano

Composition and Theory (PhD)

BM, MM (Composition) Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington

Performances include: Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Von Quartet, Indiana University Concert Band, New Music Ensemble featured China Remixed Festival, Quartetto di Chitarre ÁPEIRON, attendees of Aspen Music Festival and School, Composers Conference at Wellesley College (2015 and 2016), Midwest Composers Symposium (2014 and 2016), Freie Universit ät Berlin Music Composition Program with Samuel Adler, HighSCORE Festival

Honors: 2017 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Top Award-The ASCAP Foundation Leo Kaplan Award

Instrument: piano

Composition and Theory (PhD)

BA Music and Politics, Swarthmore College; MFA Composition and Music theory, Brandeis University

Performances include: Orchestra 2001, Sound Icon, So Percussion, Guerilla Opera, Duo Cortona, Lydian String Quartet, CollisionSeries, Philly Composer's Ink, Swarthmore College Orchestra, members of JACK Quartet, ekmeles, Yarn/Wire, Eighth Blackbird, American Modern Ensemble

Instruments: cello, piano

Website: jeremyrapaportstein.com

Composition and Theory (PhD)

MM Music Composition, Bowling Green State University; BM Music Composition, San Jose State University

Performances include: ICMC, SEAMUS, NYCEMF, EMM, SICPP, Toledo Symphony Orchestra, SPLICE Ensemble (Sam Wells & Keith Kirchoff), San Jose Chamber Orchestra

Instruments: percussion, piano

Musicology (PhD)

BM Piano Performance, University of Connecticut; MM Piano Performance, SUNY Purchase

Academic interests: History of music theory, modes and languages of analysis in the 18th and 19th centuries, chamber music of the common practice period, piano works of Aaron Copland

Activities: Music Director, Christ Church Episcopal (Waltham)

Instruments: piano, organ, voice

Composition and Theory (PhD)

MA Music Composition, State University of New York at Buffalo; MFA Music Composition, National Taiwan Normal University; BFA Piano Performance, National Kaohsiung Normal University

Performances include: ICMC, NYCEMF, Ecoles d'Art Américaines de Fontainebleau in France, June in Buffalo, World Saxophone Congress, World Harp Congress, Shanghai Conservatory of Music New Music Week.

Instrument: piano

Website: soundcloud.com/ying-ting-lin

Music Composition and Theory (PhD)

B.Mus Composition & Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.Mus Composition, Rice University.

Master's thesis: sound.field for large orchestra.

Research interests: sonology, electroacoustic music, Japanese folk art, design.

Instruments: bassoon, electronics, piano.

Portfolio: www.NikoYamamoto.com