Teaching
Employment
Present Employment
2013-Present
CUNY Brooklyn College
(Brooklyn, NY)
Adjunct Professor of Composition
2024-Present
Mannes School of Music
(New York, NY)
Faculty
2025-Present
Special Music School High School
(New York, NY)
Composition Faculty
Recent Employment
2016-2024
The Juilliard School Extension
(New York, NY)
Professor of Composition
2004-2014
The Boston Conservatory
(Boston, MA)
Professor of Composition & Music Theory
2000-2005
The Juilliard School Extension
(New York, NY)
Professor of Orchestration
2003-2004
Middlebury College
(Middlebury, VT)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition
College & Graduate Level Classes Taught
CUNY Brooklyn College (Brooklyn, NY)
Private Composition | Orchestration | Advanced Orchestration | New Music Seminar | The Tone Poem (Independent Study)
Mannes School of Music (New York, NY)
Orchestration | Composers Forum (mini-seminar)
Boston Conservatory (Boston, MA)
Private Composition | Instrumentation and Orchestration | Advanced Orchestration | Analysis of Orchestral Style | “Beyond the Double Bar: The Natures of Transcription” | Orchestral Music of Debussy and Ravel | The Tone Poem | Schenkerian Analysis | Undergraduate Composition Seminar | Graduate Composition Seminar | Advanced Analysis of 20th Century Music | Independent Study | 20th Century Music Survey | High School Composition Summer Intensive | Harmony and Counterpoint | Advanced Solfege and Score Reading | Music Fundamentals | Ear Training | Graduate Remedial Ear Training | Graduate Remedial Harmony | Secondary Piano for Composers | Chamber Music Coaching | Theremin Performance
The Juilliard School Extension (New York, NY)
Introduction to Composition | Elements of Composition | Advanced Composition | Orchestration | Advanced Orchestration
The Juilliard Pre-Collegiate Division (New York, NY)
Introduction to Composition | Private Composition (sabbatical replacement)
The Special Music School High School (New York, NY)
Composition Seminar | Private Composition
Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
Theory Through Composition I and II | Advanced Composition | Orchestration | Music Fundamentals | Independent Study/Thesis Advising
Education
Composition Studies
The Juilliard School (New York, NY)
Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, 2003
Master of Music in Composition, 1997
Composition Studies with Samuel Adler, Milton Babbitt & David Del Tredici
Columbia University (New York, NY)
Bachelor of Arts in Music, 1996
Composition Studies with David Rakowski, Jonathan Kramer, Fred Lerdahl & Jack Beeson
Aspen Music Festival (Aspen, CO)
Composition Studies with Jacob Druckman & Bernard Rands
Instrumental Studies
Piano
Ruti Hadass Warshaw
Nadia Reisenberg
Martin Canin
Yoheved Kaplinsky
Theremin
Clara Rockmore
Awards & Honors
| 2026 | Azrieli Music Prize: Commission for Jewish Music |
| 2024 | MacDowell Fellowship |
| 2023 | Copland House Residency Award |
| 2022 | New York State Council on the Arts Composer’s Commission |
| 2020 | Artists and Writers Fund, American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 2019 | New Music USA Grant for new work for chorus and orchestra, commissioned by the Northwest Sinfonietta |
| 2017 | Goddard Lieberson Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 2017 | OPERA America Discovery Grant for Female Composers |
| 2016 | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
| 2008 | American Composers Forum New England/Ditson Festival of New Music Competition Commission: Collage New Music Ensemble |
| 2006 | National Endowment for the Arts grant for “After the Victory,” commissioned by the Grand Rapids Symphony and the North American Choral Company |
| 2005 | “Outstanding Faculty of the Year” Award from the Boston Conservatory |
| 2003 | Morton Gould Young Composer Award, ASCAP Foundation |
| 2003 | New Juilliard Ensemble Composers Competition Commission: The New Juilliard Ensemble |
| 2001-2002 | Fulbright Scholarship to Israel |
| 2001 | American Composers Orchestra Whitaker Reading |
| 1998-2000 | William Hearst and C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellowships, The Juilliard School |
| 1995 | Charles Ives Scholarship, The American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 1995-1996 | Gretchaninoff Memorial Prize, The Juilliard School |
| 1993, 1990, 1988, 1987, 1986 | ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers |
| 1993 | National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts: First Award in Composition |
| 1993 | Juilliard School Student Composers Competition |
| 1991 | Fromm Music Foundation Grant (Harvard University) |
| 1988, 1984 | BMI Awards to Student Composers |
Residencies
The Corporation of Yaddo
1998, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2017, 2019
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2007
MacDowell Fellowships
1998, 2019, 2024
Publications &
Theoretical Papers
“Road From Heiligenstadt: A Composer’s Perspective on Surviving COVID”
NewMusicBox, published Mar. 16, 2021.
“Theremin, Instrument of Paradoxes: A Composer’s Journey”
American Music Review, Vol. XLVIII, No. 2 (Spring 2019)
“Clara Rockmore: A Legendary Performer of an Enigmatic Instrument”
The Juilliard Journal (March 2011)
“A Tribute to Clara”
The Bob Moog Foundation (April 2011)
“Beethoven’s Symphony Op. . . . 26 – or, Leonore WHO??!”
The Juilliard Journal (February 2003)
“From Marcia Funebre to Trauermarsch: Beethoven’s Op. 26 and the Orchestra”
D.M.A. Dissertation, The Juilliard School (2003)
“Music as Metaphor”
The Juilliard Journal (September 2002). [Original title: ‘American Music Redefined? The Composer Speaks.’]
“Williams Syndrome: Pondering the Complexities of a Musical Gift”
The Juilliard Journal (November 1996).