Education

Ph.D. in Composition and Music Theory, 2008, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA
Primary teachers—David Rakowski, Martin Boykan, Eric Chafe
Dissertation—Boulez-fixe: Construction and Cadence in Memoriale (…explosante-fixe…Originel)

MMus in Music Composition, 2002, The Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Primary teacher—Michael Finnissy
Graduated with distinction, received The Theodore Holland Award for best composition portfolio

Bachelor of Arts, 1998, Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA
Primary teacher—M. Lewis Spratlan
Graduated summa cum laude, with distinction

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Professorships

Harvard University, Preceptor, Faculty of Music, 2011-present

Harvard University, Lecturer on Music, 2008-2011

Amherst College, The Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Professor of Music, 2005-2006

Amherst College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Amherst College, Spring 2007

Brandeis University, Instructor in Music, Fall 2007

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Publications & Scholarship

“A Musical Photograph?” Co-authored with the philosopher Andrew Kania. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 70:1, Winter 2012.

“You’re There and You’re Not There: Musical Borrowing and Cavell’s ‘Way’.” The Journal of Music Theory, Volume 54:1, 91-105, Spring 2010.

“Conceiving Musical Transdialection.” Co-authored with the philosopher Joseph Moore. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 68:2, Spring 2010.

“Some Account of the Practice of Microtiming and Musical Photorealism.” manuscript (deposited at the Harvard DASH Archive), 10 October 2009.

“Boulez-fixe: Construction and Cadence in Memoriale (…explosante-fixe…Originel).” Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University, May 2008.

“Counterpoint and Quotation in Ussachevsky’s Wireless Fantasy.” Organised Sound 12(2): 143-151, 2007.

“Anonymous Sources: Finnissy Analysis and the Opening of Chapter 8 of The History of Photography in Sound.” Perspectives of New Music 45/2, 2007.

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Awards & Fellowships

The Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, awarded six times: 2008, 2009 (twice), 2010 (twice) and 2011

The Ira Gershwin Prize in Music and Theater Arts, Brandeis University, 2007

The Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Brandeis University, 2006-2007

The Irving Fine Fellowship for Music Composition, Brandeis University, 2005

The Roland Wood Fellowship, Amherst College, 2004-2005

The Theodore Holland Award, The Royal Academy of Music, 2001
Awarded to the best postgraduate composition portfolio at the Royal Academy, Royal Northern Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, and Royal College of Music

The Cuthbert Nunn Prize, high distinction, The Royal Academy of Music, 2001

The Basildon Bond Award, for orchestral composition, The Royal Academy of Music, 2001

The Mosco Carner Fellowship, The Royal Academy of Music, 2001

The Edward Poole-Lay Fellowship, Amherst College, 2000-2001

MacDowell Colony Fellow, January-February 1999

The Eric B. Sundquist Prize in Music, Amherst College, 1998

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