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FACULTY

Claude Baker, Chancellor's Professor.     D.M.A., Eastman School of Music, 1975. Composer-in-Residence, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, 1991-99. Music performed by the orchestras of Saint Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Louisville, the New York Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España and Orquesta Sinfonica de RTV Española. Recipient of an Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards, a "Manuel de Falla" Prize (Madrid), the Eastman-Leonard and George Eastman Prizes, the inaugural "Barto Prize," BMI-SCA and ASCAP awards; commissions from the Fromm and Koussevitzky Music Foundations; grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation and the state arts councils of Indiana, Kentucky and New York. Works published by MMB Music and Carl Fischer, and recorded on the ACA, Gasparo, TNC and Louisville First Edition labels.  Former faculty member, University of Georgia, University of Louisville, and Eastman School of Music. Honorary doctorate awarded by the University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1999. Listen to music by Claude Baker.
David Dzubay, Professor; Chair; Director, New Music Ensemble.     D.M., Indiana University, 1991. Guggenheim, MacDowell, Tanglewood and Djerassi Fellowships. Performances by the orchestras of Aspen, Atlanta, Baltimore, Detroit, Honolulu, Louisville, Minnesota, Oakland, Oregon, St. Louis, Vancouver, and the ACO and New World Symphony; ensembles including Earplay, Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, PNME and SFCMP. Awards from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, ASCAP, Barlow Foundation, BMI, Indiana Arts Commission, National Band Association. Commissions from Chamber Music America, Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer, NEA, US-Mexico Fund for Culture, Albany Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, New York Youth Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Manhattan Brass Quintet, Voices of Change. Music published by Pro Nova Music, Thompson Edition, and Dorn, and recorded on Centaur, Crystal, Innova, Klavier, Louisville First Edition, Riax and Sony labels. Former faculty member, University of North Texas. Composer-Consultant, Minnesota Orchestra, 1995-1998; Composer-in-Residence, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, 2005-2006. Listen to music by David Dzubay.
Don Freund, Professor.     D.M.A., Eastman School of Music, 1972. Don Freund has composed over 100 performed works, ranging from solo, chamber, and orchestral music to pieces involving live performance with electronic instruments, music for dance and large theatre works; he is also active as a pianist, conductor, and lecturer. He has received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim  Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and prizes including the 1979 Washington International String Quartet Composition Competition, the ISCM 1976 International Piano Music Competition, the 1995 AGO/ECS Publishing Award in Choral Composition, the Hanson Prize, the McCurdy Award, the Aspen Prize, and 30 ASCAP Awards. In 1998 he was composer-in-residence at the Australian National Academy of Music, and lectured on his music at Royal Conservatories in Brussels and the Hague, the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Prague Conservatory and the Hochschule in Vienna. His works are published by MMB Music, Boosey and Hawkes, E.C. Schirmer, Seesaw, and Vivace Press and his music is available on CD's from CRI, Albany, Innova, Crystal, and Pro Organo. Listen to music by Don Freund.
John Gibson, Assistant Professor; Assistant Director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music.     Ph.D., Princeton University. Compositions performed by the London Sinfonietta, Seattle Symphony, Da Capo Chamber Players, Music Today Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, New York Camerata, EARPLAY, and at the Tanglewood, Marlboro and June in Buffalo festivals. Electroacoustic works presented at international conferences held by the ICMA and SEAMUS, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. Grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Tangelwood Music Center, Jerome Foundation, ASCAP, Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition. Recordings on the Centaur label. Developer of music synthesis and processing software. Listen to music by John Gibson.
Jeffrey Hass, Professor; Director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music.    D.M., Indiana University, 1989. Guest composer at Washington State University, University of Louisville and Indiana State University. Recent compositions premiered by the Louisville Orchestra and Concordia Chamber Orchestra. Performances at Lincoln Center, national conferences of the Society of Composers, Inc., the College Music Society, the International Computer Music Conference and the Society for Electro-acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS). Works published by the Ludwig Music Company and MMB Music Publishers. National Band Association/Revelli Award, Walter Beeler Memorial Award, Lee Ettelson/Composers Inc. Award, Master Fellowship, Indiana Arts Commission/NEA. Former instructor of music theory and composition at Rutgers University and Interlochen Center for the Arts. Listen to music by Jeffrey Hass.
Eugene O'Brien Eugene O'Brien, Executive Associate Dean; Professor.   D.M.A., Case Western Reserve University-Cleveland Institute of Music, 1983. Fulbright, Rome Prize, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships; commissions from the NEA, Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations, and Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. Performances by the Omaha Symphony, RAI Symphony Orchestra of Rome, the Cleveland Orchestra, and numerous soloists and ensembles. Awards from American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters, International Society for Contemporary Music, ASCAP and BMI. Works published by MMB, Boosey & Hawkes, and G. Schirmer, and recorded on the CRI, Golden Crest, Crystal and Capstone labels. Former faculty member, Cleveland Institute of Music and Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Listen to music by Eugene O'Brien.
P.Q. Phan, Associate Professor.     D.M.A., University of Michigan, 1993; B.S. School of Architecture, Ho Chi Minh City. Recipient of 1998 Rome Prize, ASCAP awards; grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ohio Arts Councils, Charles Ives Center for American Music, and fellowships from the Macdowell Colony. Guest composer: the 99 Asian New Music Festival in Tokyo Japan, the 99 & 97 New Music Festival at Hamilton College (New York), the '96 residency with the Kronos Quartet at University of Iowa - Hancher Auditorium, the '95 Asian Composers' Forum in Sendai - Japan, the '94 New Music Festival at UC Santa Barbara, the '92 Music Lives in Pittsburgh. Performances by the Kronos Quartet, the BBC Scottish, Radio France, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, Hanoi Conservatory Orchestra. Commissions from the Kronos Quartet, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the American Composers Orchestra, the Greater East Lansing Symphony, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the Samaris Piano Trio, the New York Youth Symphony, La Sierra University. Work recorded by the Kronos Quartet for Nonesuch. Former Faculty member, University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana, Cleveland State University. Listen to music by P.Q. Phan.
Sven-David Sandström, Professor.     Composition studies with Ingvar Lidholm, Gyorgy Ligeti, Per Norgard. Recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Christ Johnson Prize and Major Award, Nordic Council Award and the Buxtehude Award. Performances throughout Scandinavia and Europe by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam; the Kroumata Percussion Ensemble, the H”gersten Motet Choir and others. Catalog of published and performed compositions includes more than ninety works in various genres. Recent large-scale works include De ur alla minnen fallna - Missa da requiem, for soloists, chorus and orchestra; High Mass for soloists, chorus and orchestra; the oratorio Moses for the 300th anniversary of the Oslo Cathedral; and the full-length opera Staden (The City). Published by Warner/Chappell, Nordiska Musikfrlaget and other; and recorded on BIS, MAP, CBS and other labels. Former professor of composition and pro-Rektor, Royal College of Music, Stockholm. Listen to music by Sven-David Sandström. 

VISITING FACULTY

David Ward-Steinman, Adjunct Professor.  D.M.A., University of Illinois, 1961.  Composer-in-Residence and Distinguished Professor of Music, San Diego State University (1961-2003). Senior Scholar to Australia 1989-90; University Research Lecturer, SDSU 1986-87.  Music performed by the orchestras of Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, New Orleans, Albuquerque, Tokyo (Japan Philharmonic), London (City of London Sinfonia), New York (Orchestra USA, City Center Theatre Orchestra), and numerous others. Commissions from the Chicago Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Joffrey Ballet, California Ballet, San Diego Ballet, MTNA, NACWPI, SDSU, and Camarada Chamber Ensemble, among many others. Recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Bearns Prize (Columbia Univ.), 4 BMI-SCA awards, and 1st Prizes from Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, SAI, NFMC, and Tanglewood; White House reception honoree. Recordings on Harmonia Mundi, Fleur de Son Classics, Kleos Classics, CRI, Crystal, Orion, MOVE Records (Australia).  Guest composer/lecturer at over 75 campuses in the U.S. and abroad. Composition studies with Nadia Boulanger (Paris), Milton Babbitt (Tanglewood), and Darius Milhaud (Aspen).    


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