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Sky Macklay composer, oboist, installation artist www.skymacklay.com Curriculum Vitae 5550 S. Dorchester AVE #1003 (507) 521-0548 Chicago, IL 60637 [email protected] EDUCATION 2018 D.M.A. in Composition Columbia University in the City of New York Dissertation: Violence and Empathy: Jennifer Walshe’s XXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!! as a Simulation of Acquaintance Rape (paper) and Microvariations for Large Ensemble (piece) Composition: Georg Friedrich Haas, Fred Lerdahl, George Lewis Electronic music: Brad Garton, Douglas Repetto 2012 M.M. in Composition University of Memphis 2010 B.A. in Music, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa Luther College (Decorah, IA) PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT 2018-present Assistant Professor of Music, Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, IN) AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS 2019 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellow Kronos Quartet’s “Fifty for the Future” selected composer 2018 Commission from the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition (with andPlay) Avaloch Farm Music Institute Residency (with andPlay) Bowling Green State University New Music Ensemble Competition winner for Microvariations Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts Fellow 2017 Fromm Commission from Harvard University (with Ensemble Dal Niente) Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters GRAMMY nomination for Spektral Quartet’s album Serious Business featuring Many Many Cadences in the Best Small Ensemble Performance category Miami chapter selection for ISCM World New Music Days Charles S. Miller Award from Columbia University for The Surrogate 2016 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant (with Splinter Reeds) ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Many Many Cadences New Music USA Project Grant for MEGA-ORGAN Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne FORUM selected composer Macklay 2 Patricia Plude Faculty Fellowship for Excellence and Innovation in Musicianship Teaching from The Walden School 2015 The Jerome Fund for New Music Award (with Ryan Muncy) Composers and the Voice Fellow with American Opera Projects Ruth Anderson Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music for Harmonibots Mosenthel Endowed Fellowship in Composition from Columbia University 2014 Patricia Plude Faculty Fellowship for Excellence and Innovation in Musicianship Teaching from The Walden School 2013 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Leo Kaplan Award (top prize) for Dissolving Bands Composition Fellow at the Bennington Chamber Music Conference 2012 New Music USA CAP Grant for Dissolving Bands TEACHING EXPERIENCE Valparaiso University Private Composition Lessons (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019) Theory I (Fall 2018) Theory II (Spring 2019) Theory III (Fall 2018) Post-tonal Theory (Spring 2019) New Music Ensemble (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019) Intro to Electronic Music (Fall 2018) Columbia University Intro to Digital Music (Instructor Spring 2017, Co-lecture with Brad Garton Fall 2016) Undergraduate Composition (Co-lecture with Georg Friedrich Haas Spring 2016) Masterpieces of Western Music (Instructor Fall 2015, TA Spring 2015 and Fall 2014) University of Memphis Aural Skills II (TA Spring 2012) Music Theory I (Instructor Fall 2011) The Walden School Young Musicians Program (5-week summer course for pre-college composers) Composition (Summers 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010) Computer Music (Summer 2017) Advanced Spectral and Microtonal Musicianship (Summer 2016) Musicianship (Summers 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010) High Chorus (Co-Conductor Summers 2017 and 2016) Let’s Make A Musical (Summers 2016, 2014, and 2010) Classical Form and Analysis (Summer 2015) John Cage (Summer 2012) Macklay 3 CONFERENCE ACTIVITY, INVITED TALKS, AND WRITINGS 2019 Composition lessons and lectures on my music, Indiana University Bloomington, Feb. 13-14 2018 Composition lessons and lecture on my music, University of Notre Dame, Dec. 2 Master classes and lecture on my music, Western Michigan University, Oct. 12 Lecture on my music, Northwestern University Composition Seminar, Oct. 11 Lecture on my music, The University of Chicago Composition Seminar, May 29 Master classes and lecture on my music, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 1 Master classes and lecture on my music, The Hartt School, April 18 “Student-Created Content in the Core Music Class,” Musicology in the Age of (Post)Globalization, CUNY Graduate Center, April 3-6 Lecture on my music, Lawrence University Composition Seminar, March 6 Lecture on my music, BGSU Composition Seminar, March 1 2017 Lecture on my music and interview with musicologist Tim Rutherford-Johnson, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Utrecht, Netherlands, Sept. 9 Lecture on my music, The Juilliard School Composition Seminar, Feb. 13 2016 “The Drama Unfurling Process,” McGill University Composition Seminar, Nov. 10 “The Drama Unfurling Process,” University of Montreal Composition Seminar, Nov. 9 “Propaganda and Music: The Questionnaire,” Sound American, Issue 15, May 11 “The Analog Robotic: The Liminality of Naturalness in Harmonibots,” Women in Music Technology Symposium, University of California, Irvine, Feb. 6 SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Summer 2018 Academic Dean, The Walden School Young Musicians Program 2017-2018 Assistant Academic Dean, The Walden School Young Musicians Program 2014-2016 Board Member, Columbia Composers (concert-organizing body) 2012-present Advisory Board, American Composers Forum Next Notes high school composition initiative DISCOGRAPHY 2019 Hypothetical Islands, featuring Choppy, Splinter Reeds’ album released on New Focus Recordings 2018 We Who Walk Again, featuring 60 Degree Mirrors, Ghost Ensemble’s album released on Indexical Records (also featured as an oboist on works by Pauline Oliveros, Ben Richter, Andrew C. Smith, and Sky Macklay) 2016 Serious Business, featuring Many Many Cadences, Spektral Quartet’s album released on Sono Luminous Macklay 4 WORKS LIST WITH COMMISSIONERS AND PERFORMANCES Large Ensemble 2017 Disputation(s) on the Power (of Indulgences) for SATB choir and brass ensemble Commissioned by the Marilyn Roverud Endowed Fellowship in Lutheran Studies Luther College Collegiate and Cathedral Choirs, Reformation Commemoration Concert, Decorah, IA, Oct. 2017 X + X = ? for horn and alto sax soloists and wind ensemble Commissioned by the Concertos for Young Soloists Project Arizona State University Wind Orchestra and youth soloists from area middle schools, Tempe, AZ, Jan. 2018 2016 Microvariations for fl, ob, cl, b.cl, c.bsn, hrn, tpt, tbn, pno, perc, vln I, vln II, vla, vlc, and cb Commissioned by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne BGSU New Music Ensemble, Bowling Green, OH, March 2018 Société de musique contemporaine du Québec, Montreal, QC, Sept. 2017 Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Montreal, QC, Nov. 2016 Ode to Alice for youth orchestra Commissioned by The Rivers School Rivers Upper School Orchestra, Musicfest Canada, Niagara Falls, ON, May 2017 Rivers Upper School Orchestra, Croatia and Italy tour, Jan. 2017 Rivers Upper School Orchestra, Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young, Weston, MA, Feb. 2016 2015 Sing Their Names for 17-part SATB choir Commissioned by ASCAP and the New York Virtuoso Singers New York Virtuoso Singers, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 2015 2012 Dissolving Bands for orchestra Commissioned by The Lexington Symphony Lexington Symphony, Lexington Town House, Lexington, MA, Sept. 2012 Opera 2018 The Surrogate, one-act opera for 5 singers and sinfonietta Commissioned by The University of Illinois Opera and American Opera Projects National Opera Association Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Jan. 2019 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, May 2018 2016 Why We Bleed, chamber opera for 2 sopranos, baritone, and piano Contemporary Insights Composer Portrait, Spectrum, New York, NY, Oct. 2016 Macklay 5 American Opera Projects Composers and the Voice: Six Scenes, American Opera Center, New York, NY, Oct. 2016 American Opera Projects Composers and the Voice: Six Scenes, South Oxford Space, Brooklyn, NY, Sept. 2016 Instruments and Electronics/Multimedia 2019 Maps (of Friendship) for violin, viola, and video Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment and andPlay andPlay, Areté, Brooklyn, NY, April 2019 2016 Fly’s Eyes for soprano, flute, tenor saxophone, violin, piano, percussion, and electronics Nova Ensemble, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, Nov. 2018 Wet Ink Ensemble, DiMenna Center, New York, NY, September 2018 Wet Ink Ensemble, St. Peter’s Church, New York, NY, April 2016 2015 White/Waves for fl, ob, b.cl, t.sax, tpt, tbn, pno, perc, vln I, vln II, vla, vlc, and electronics Asko Schönberg, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Utrecht, NL, Sept. 2017 ICE, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY, April 2017 Wet Ink Large Ensemble, DiMenna Center, New York, NY, April 2015 Lessina, Levlin, Levlite, Levora for speaking violinist and electronics Josh Modney, Contemporary Insights Composer Portrait, Spectrum, New York, NY, Oct. 2016 Josh Modney, Contemporary Insights Presents: Josh Modney, Spectrum, New York, NY, Jan. 2016 Acoustic Chamber Music 2018 Escalator for oboe and horn soloists, harp, guitar, violin, viola, cello, and bass Commissioned by The Fromm Foundation and Ensemble Dal Niente Ensemble Dal Niente, Constellation, Chicago, IL, June 2018 2017 Choppy for oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, and bassoon Commissioned by Chamber Music America Splinter Reeds, Blue Sage Center for the Arts, Paonia, CO, March 2018 Splinter Reeds, University of Texas, Austin, TX, Nov. 2017 Splinter Reeds, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, Nov. 2017 Splinter Reeds, Indexical at