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Lectures & Residencies

  • Composer residency: South Korea, October 2008 [invited]:
    • Lecture: “Two Text Settings with Computer Music: Three Poems from Felt (after Alice Fulton) and Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka”; The University of Suwon (Hwaseong)
    • Lecture: “Two Text Settings with Computer Music: Three Poems from Felt (after Alice Fulton) and Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka”; Dankook University (Yongin)

  • “Creating an Electroacoustic Environment for Text Setting: Three Poems from Felt and Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka”; Tarrant County Community College (North Richland Hills, TX), November 2007 [invited].
  • “Creating an Electroacoustic Environment for Text Setting: Three Poems from Alice Fulton’s Felt”; National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan): International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology, March 2007 [invited].
  • Composer residency: Taiwan, March 2007 [invited]:
    • Graduate seminar: “On Setting Three Poems from Alice Fulton’s Felt”; National Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu)
    • Lecture: “Models and Metaphors in Occam’s Razor”; National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei)
    • Graduate seminar: “Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka: A Composer’s Reflections”; National Taipei University of Education (Taipei)

  • “A Comprehensive-Immersive Approach to Beginning Composition Instruction”; Université de Montréal (Montréal, Canada): Conference “Composer au XXIe siècle: processus et philosophies”, Observatoire internationale de la creation musicale (OICM), February 2007 [juried].
  • “It Can’t Happen Here: Political and Social Commentary in the Works of Frank Zappa”; Lodz Academy of International Studies (Lodz, Poland): Conference “Politics and Media”, April 2006 [juried].
  • Composer residency: Czech Republic, March 2003 [invited]:
    • Composition seminar; Janácek Akademie (Brno)
    • Lecture: “Frank Zappa: American Composer”; Janácek Akademie (Brno)
    • Lecture: “Models and Metaphors in Occam’s Razor”; Masaryk University (Brno)
    • Lecture: “Models and Metaphors in Occam’s Razor”; Palacky University (Olomouc)
    • Lecture: “Contemporary American Music”: Pavel Krízkovsky Performing Arts Gymnázium (Komín)

  • “The Composer in Contemporary Society”; Plano West Senior High School, AP Theory class, May 2002 [invited].
  • Guest Composer, American Music Week in Bulgaria, November 2001 [invited]:
    • Participated in rehearsals and concerts as composer and conductor (Sofia)
    • Lecture: “Games Composers Play”; American University in Bulgaria (Blagoevgrad)

  • “Towards a Fractal Aesthetic in Music”; Denison University (Granville, OH), October 1999 [invited].
  • “Models and Metaphors in Occam’s Razor”; University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI): guest lecture for Alice Fulton’s graduate poetry seminar on Postmodern Fractal Poetics, October 1999 [invited].
  • Guest Composer, Towson University Twentieth Century Music Festival (Towson, MD), April 1999 [invited]:
    • Participated in rehearsals and concerts as composer
    • Composition master class
    • Presented lecture on recent works

  • “Musical Models in the road in its unfoldings”; University of Louisville (Louisville, KY), December 1998 [invited].
  • Guest Composer, University of Evansville (Evansville, IN), December 1998 [invited]:
    • Participated in rehearsals and concert as composer and sound engineer
    • Lecture: “Text Setting in Leviathan”

  • “The Pathways Project”; Northwestern University (Evanston, IL), March 1998 [invited].
  • “The Pathways Project”; University of Chicago, May 1997 [invited].
  • Convocation Address, Morehead State University (Morehead, KY), May 1997 [invited].
  • Resident Artist, Arkansas Governor's School, Hendrix College (Conway, AR), July 1996 [invited]:
    • Lecture: “The Artist in Society”
    • Lecture-recital: “George Crumb’s Black Angels” (with members of the NOVA Ensemble)

  • “George Crumb’s Black Angels: a lecture-recital” (with members of the NOVA Ensemble): Arkansas Governor's School, Hendrix College (Conway, AR), July 1995 [invited].
  • Guest Composer, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, May 1995 [invited]:
    • Lecture: “The Composer in Contemporary Society”
    • Lecture: “The Pathways Project”

  • "The Composer and Performer in the Collaborative Process" (with Andrew Glendening), November 1994 [invited]:
    • Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA)
    • California State University, Los Angeles
    • Orange County High School for the Arts (Orange, CA)

  • Guest Composer, New Music Symposium, Morehead State University (Morehead, KY), March 1994 [invited]:
    • Participated in rehearsals and concerts as composer and conductor
    • Composition master class
    • Presented lecture on recent works

  • Guest Composer, University of Evansville (Evansville, IN), February 1994 [invited]:
    • Participated in rehearsals and concert as composer and sound engineer
    • Lecture: “The Composer in Contemporary Society”

  • Guest Composer, University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND), October 1993 [invited]:
    • Participated in rehearsals and concert as composer
    • Composition master class
    • Lecture: "The Composer and Performer in the Collaborative Process" (with Andrew Glendening)

  • Guest Composer, State University of New York at Buffalo, March 1993 [invited]:
    • Composition lessons
    • Presented lecture on recent works

  • Guest Composer, Northeastern Illinois University (Chicago, IL), May 1991 [invited].