Education

M.A. Music Composition, May 07
Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, CUNY

B.A. Music, May 05.
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT

Academic Honors

Saint Michael’s Award for Outstanding Leadership and Service
Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society
Delta Epsilon Sigma, National Catholic Honor Society
Psi Chi, National Honor Society in Psychology

Notable Coursework

Scoring for Film and Multimedia, NYU, Dr. Ronald Sadoff, Sum 06
Aesthetics of Film Music, CUNY Grad Ctr, Dr. Royal Brown, Spr 06
Advanced Orchestration, ACSM, Dr. Bruce Saylor, Spr 06
Conducting for Composers, ACSM, Maurice Peress, Fall 05

Workshops/Summer Opportunities

Aspen Music Festival, Film Scoring Program. Summer 2008
ASCAP/NYU Film Scoring Workshop, May 2007 (auditor ‘06)
European American Musical Alliance, Summer Institute, Paris, Jul 06

Awards

ACSM Award for Graduating Masters Student, 07
Herbert Sukoff Award for Composition (ACSM), 06
Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards, 06

Commissions

St. Michael’s College - For Presidential Inauguration, Sept 07

Private Study

Ira Newborn, Private study in Film Scoring, Sept 06 – Present
Michel Merlet, L’école Normale de Musique, Paris, Jul 06
Bruce Saylor, Aaron Copland School of Music, Aug 05 – May 07
Erik Nielsen, Private Instructor in Vermont, May 04 - May 05

Theater Related Experience

Music Director/Pianist/Composer, “Little Mouse” Children’s Musical
St. Michael’s Playhouse 05 Season

Rehearsal Pianist, “Into the Woods”
St. Michael’s College Theater Department Production, Sept 04-Feb 05

Company Manager/Assistant Box Office Manager
St. Michael’s Playhouse, 05 Season

Box Office Intern
St. Michael’s Playhouse, 03/04 Seasons

Professional Jobs/Work Experience

Rights/Sales Associate, C. F. Peters Corporation, 10/06 – Present
→Work in every aspect of the company including rights management, composer correspondence, print room, administrative tasks, sales, rentals, website maintenance, and marketing
→Being trained in Peters style music setting/engraving by MPA award-winning engraver Hector Colon in both Finale and Sibelius

Extracirricular Activities

President, Graduate Music Association, Aaron Copland School of Music, QC, May – Oct 2006
→Peer-elected position included all aspects of planning, scheduling, and contracting professional musicians to perform the works of student composers at self-planned and promoted concerts.

Computer/Technology Skills

Finale Notation Software (extensive experience)
Sibelius Notation Software (extensive experience)
Logic Pro 8
Windows XP
Mac OS X
Adobe Acrobat Professional
Adobe Page Maker
HTML (beginner)
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Publisher, Powerpoint)