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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

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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

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