whole music
courses taught at Bennington College since fall 2001

• Band Theory
• Structure & Improvisation in Music & Dance (co-taught with choreographer Terry Creach)
• Vocal Improv Ensemble
• Music in Practice
• Window for the Ear: Other Music Cultures Teach Us About Our Own
• Advanced Projects in Music: A Seminar in the Architecture of Musicmaking from Theory to Practice
• Music History: 1000 Years, Paris to Rome to Vienna to London to New York
• Monteverdi Marvel (co-taught with singer Tom Bogdan)

composition

• method
• students & work examples from BMI-sponsored Composer-in-Residency at LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts, New York City, and elsewhere
  

music history

• general course description & background
• Columbia University: "Music Humanities - Masterpieces of Western Music"
• New York University: "The History of Music"

projects

• Meet the Composer Residency at The Earth School
• Valentine's Day for Blonds with the P.S.126 Spinners

workshops

• The Symbiosis of Composition & Improvisation
• Animal to Machine to Animal, Composing with Technology
  

teaching experience

educational background

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