By way of an introduction......
 I am a composer and educator, working in Los Angeles and teaching in the Music Department of California State University, Los Angeles.  When not composing or teaching, I can be found promoting the music of living composers and the music of the past 50 years through a variety of activities which includes conducting, lecturing and adjudication. The interaction of the performing arts here on our campus and in the local community has also become a major preoccupation of mine. I am convinced that in the expanding global community, the Arts will be the link to understanding the people around us.

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Professional Activities

Recent Works and Current Works in Progress 

Desde el Balcon for viola and bass-baritone

              November 10, '07, Hong Mei Xiao, viola, Nicholas Isherwood, bass-baritone

Sangre Eterna for SATB chorus, saxophone septet, solo baritone, 

    solo double bass, percussion & children's chorus

Duo Concerto for Ole Bohn, violin, Roger Vigulf, clarinet and the Vestfold Sinfonietta (Norway)

Sample of My Work as a Composer

          MySpace

"Three Pieces for String Quartet" 1986, movement 2
"Three Pieces..." is an old piece but remains one of my favorites.

New Music Jukebox Link

This service, provided by the American Music Center for its members, lists my available compositions with sound and score samples.

Recordings

Portrait.... for symphony orchestra
VMM3032

Professional Background

Awards/Honors

2007 ASCAP Standard Panel Award, annual since 1991.

Subito Grant, American Composer Forum-Los Angeles Chapter, 2004.

Meet the Composer Grant, April, 2000.

Finalist, California Professional Music Teachers Association 1999 Commission Competition.

Creative Leave and Creative Activity Grant, California State University, Los Angeles, Spring, 1998.

Charles E. Ives Scholarship, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1990.

First Runner-up, Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute Composition Competition, 1990.

Finalist, ASCAP/Rudolf Nissim Orchestral Composition Competition, 1990.

ASCAP Foundation Grant to Young Composers, 1989.

John Wesley Works III Memorial Foundation Grant, 1989.

Activities: Guest Composer

Focus Festival of New Music, Berea, Ohio, October 1999.

International Festival of Music, Kwang-ju, Korea, October, 1999.

Crane Festival of New Music, Potsdam, New York, March, 1999.

International Festival of New Music, Dae-gu, Korea, October, 1996.

The Society of Composers, Inc., 1996 National meeting, Memphis State University.

The Society of Composers, Inc., 1994 Region VII meeting, San Diego State University.

The College Music Society Pacific Southern Meeting, 1993.

New Music Festival, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, 1987.

Activities: Professional Presentations

Aspen Composers' Conference, "The Guitar in Late 20th Century Chamber Music", August, 2004.

Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory,  "Introduction to the French Spectral School", October, 2003.

Los Angeles Philharmonic "Upbeat: Live!" presentations, Fall 2000 including panel discussions in honor of Aaron Copland. (also 1/01, 4/00,12/98, 4/98, 4/97, 5/96)

Adjudicator, Music Teachers Association of California, "Composers Today" competition, Spring 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998.

Presenter, Los Angeles County Arts Commission Open House, October, 1998, 1997.

Music Director/Conductor, Taiwanese-American Composer Forum, May, 1998.

Presenter, The College Music Society Pacific Southern Meeting, 1994.

Pierre Boulez Conductors/Composers Workshop, Carnegie Hall, March, 1993

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