I am happiest and most intellectually stimulated when teaching, interacting with students in individual and group settings (undergraduates and graduates alike), and sharing concepts, philosophies, new ideas and techniques. My academic career began in 2005 when I started teaching musicianship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since then, I have held faculty positions at DePaul, Roosevelt, and Northwestern Universities teaching composition, theory, ear training and an array of non-major courses. In 2016, I served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa, filling in for senior composer Lawrence Fritts by teaching his PhD and Masters composition students. At Roosevelt, I taught both the required history sequence for music majors, and self-devised graduate music seminars, for which I created the following composition/analysis courses: “The Music of George Crumb,” “Extended Instrumental Techniques,” “The New York School of Composers” and “Notation and Meaning.”
TEACHING POSTS
Associate Professor of Composition, Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) 2022-present
Assistant Professor of Composition, Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) 2021-2022
Lecturer in Music, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago IL) 2019-present
Taught required ear training course to music majors, Fundamentals of Music Theory to non-majors.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) 2016
Taught private composition lessons to graduate and undergraduate composition students.
Teaching Fellow, Darmstadt International Course for New Music (Darmstadt, DE) 2016
Taught composition lessons, delivered lectures and led workshops on various subjects relating to new and experimental music.
Lecturer in Music, DePaul University School of Music (Chicago, IL) 2012-2016
Taught musicianship to undergraduate music majors.
Composition/Theory Instructor, DePaul University Community Music Division (Chicago, IL) 2011-present
Teaches weekly lessons in composition and theory.
Lecturer in Music, Roosevelt University Conservatory (Chicago, IL) 2008-2010
Taught required undergraduate music history course in 20th century music.
Taught graduate courses in self-created course topics:
“Notation and Meaning”- alternative approaches to notation.
“The New York School”- the music of Feldman, Wolff, Brown, and Cage.
“The Music of George Crumb”
“Extended Instrumental Techniques in 20th/21st Century Music”
Lecturer in Music, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) 2005-2007
Taught “Introduction to Music,” a university-wide class: created curriculum, chose text for course.
Taught “Contemporary Music” to non-majors: created course, curriculum, and course-pack.
Lecturer in Music, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL) 2005
Taught Aural Skills level IV (advanced level), required curriculum for undergraduate music majors.