academic experience
& teaching
Lake Forest College
Associate Dean of Faculty
Professor of Music
Composer-in-Residence, 2005-2010
Associate Professor (tenured)
Chair, Department of Music, 2000-2005
Assistant Professor
Chair, Department of Music, 1994-2000
Founding Director, Lake Forest Lyrica
Chamber music series, 1994-2012
Newberry Library Lyceum, Chicago, Illinois
Instructor, spring 1994, fall 1992
University of Chicago Continuing Education Program
Instructor, spring 1994, summer 1993
Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois
Lecturer, winter, fall 1993
University of Chicago
Lecturer, spring 1991
courses taught
Perspectives on Music – Survey of Western Classical Music for non-majors
Music Theory I – Tonal Harmony
Music Theory II – Advanced Tonal Harmony
Form and Tonal Analysis
Latin American Music
Genius: The Lives and Works of Mozart, Bach, and Einstein
Music in Chicago
Twentieth Century Music: Analysis
Women in Music
Composition
Orchestration
Stravinsky: Analysis
The Rite of Spring: Analysis
fellowships and
awards
National Composition Competition
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro,
Second prize, November 2016
Fulbright Lecture/Research Award
Federal Universal of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
March-July 2008
Trustee Award for Outstanding Teaching
and Campus Leadership
Lake Forest College, 2001
Montgomery Assistant Professor
Lake Forest College, 1998-2000
William L. Dunn Award for Outstanding
Teaching and Scholarly Promise
Lake Forest College, 1997
ASCAP Composers Award
1994-2014, 2017-2022