Education: B. A. in composition; The Juilliard School of Music, NYC. (honorary scholarship in Junior year.) M.A. in vocal performance: Trenton State Teachers' College Trenton, NJ. Ph.D. work at Boston University (teaching fellow; taught courses in ear training and keyboard harmony). Post graduate work at New England and Boston Conservatory in Opera (scholarship). Composition Teachers: Vincent Persichetti, David Diamond, Otto Luening... Voice Teachers: Oren Brown, Jerome Hines, Jeffrey Gall...
Music performed: Cathedral of St. John The Divine in NYC, Copley Square Ballet Company, Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow, M. I. T. Concert Band, Mobius, North Shore Civic Ballet, OutLook Film & Video, NYC; Hartmut Schulz, Cologne, Germany.
Grants: "Swallow and The Prince" grant from The Town of Dedham Cultural Council (for Acting Singers Project). Edward II: generous grant from Daniel B. Kelly for professional recording.
Commissions: Invocation for Organ: American Guild of Organists; published by E. C. Schirmer; Fire Chant: Non-Verbal Sacred Chants; Boston Metro Opera
Awards: Birthday on The Moon, second place: Long Leaf Opera Competition; Antigon Boston Metro's Main-Stage Award International Competition; Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director's Prize: Longfellow Chorus Composition Competition.
Composer in Residence: Music Now & Now Dance (one of 3 composers; also Artistic Director); Prime Time for Kids at Masasoit College, Brockton, MA (also Music Director); Putnam Court Musicians (also regular performer);
Music performed: Cathedral of St. John The Divine in NYC, Copley Square Ballet Company, Kinetic Dance Theater of Moscow, M. I. T. Concert Band, Mobius, North Shore Civic Ballet, OutLook Film & Video, NYC; Hartmut Schulz, Cologne, Germany.
Grants: "Swallow and The Prince" grant from The Town of Dedham Cultural Council (for Acting Singers Project). Edward II: generous grant from Daniel B. Kelly for professional recording.
Commissions: Invocation for Organ: American Guild of Organists; published by E. C. Schirmer; Fire Chant: Non-Verbal Sacred Chants; Boston Metro Opera
Awards: Birthday on The Moon, second place: Long Leaf Opera Competition; Antigon Boston Metro's Main-Stage Award International Competition; Alone Gd. Sufficeth Director's Prize: Longfellow Chorus Composition Competition.
Composer in Residence: Music Now & Now Dance (one of 3 composers; also Artistic Director); Prime Time for Kids at Masasoit College, Brockton, MA (also Music Director); Putnam Court Musicians (also regular performer);
