2015 Current Student Accomplishments (Composition): NOTE: Items in Red are of particular national/international significance

Positions Acquired

Tatev Amiryan (DMA candidate) • Adjunct lecturer of Music Theory - Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, San Jose, CA • Adjunct lecturer of World Music HUM122 - Cogswell Polytechnical College, San Jose, CA • Adjunct instructor of Musicianship/Composition - Crowden Music School, Berkeley, CA

Stacy Busch (MM candidate) • Owen-Cox Dance Company • Classical contributor for the KC Metropolis

Tyler Capp (DMA candidate) • Full-time Lecturer in Music Composition and Theory, College of Music, Mahidol University, Thailand

AJ Harbison (MM candidate) • Worship Leader (music preparation, performance, audio), Grace Presbyterian Church (Lenexa, KS) • Free-Lance Audio Engineer, Brookside Bluegrass Festival (Kansas City, MO) and music theater productions • Recording Engineer, UMKC Conservatory (Kansas City, MO)

Derek Jenkins (DMA candidate) • Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, UMKC

Ted King-Smith (DMA candidate) • Co-founder: FuseBox New Music

Brian Lynn (DMA candidate) • Attained my Missouri Teaching License - certified K - 12 Instrumental and Vocal Music • Instructor, Christ Lutheran School, Overland Park, KS • Private music studio instructor, KC Music in Kansas City, MO • Substitute teaching in the North Kansas City, Kansas City, Center and Hickman Mills school districts

Michael Miller (DMA candidate) • Mentor, Words + Music Program • Instructor (composition), UMKC Conservatory Academy of Music and Dance

Scott Steele (MM candidate) • Co-founder: FuseBox New Music

YAN Yiguo (DMA Candidate) • UMKC Composers’ Guild Concert Manager ( two productios)

Zane Winter (MM Candidate) • Co-founder: FuseBox New Music • Curator: The Debussy Project 10/1&4/15

Zhou Jing (DMA candidate) • Teacher in Brooklyn Music House

Honors/Awards/Grants

Tatev Amiryan (DMA candidate) • AGBU Performing Arts Fellowship, Armenian General Benevolent Union

Gavin Brivik (BM candidate) • Selected by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for their collection “Composers Spotlight: Film Composers to Watch” – list published in Filmmaker magazine.

Stacy Busch (MM candidate) • ArtSounds grant recipient with Cody Kauhl "As I See You" collaborative film event • Finalist for Third Coast Percussion's Emerging Composer's Partnership

Tyler Capp (DMA candidate) • Winner, National Association of Composers USA Young Composers Competition • Semi-Finalist, US Fulbright Commission Student Grant • James E. Croft Grant for Young and Emerging Wind Band Composers

Jiyoun CHUNG (DMA candidate) • Selected for the 2015 Singapore Asian Composers Festival • Selected for the Aquila Summer Concert Series

Philip DeWalt (DMA candidate) • Coming Attractions won 2nd place in Spain's Concurso Internacional de Composición "José Fernández Rojas”. • Spanish Dagger for mandolin orchestra, selected as one of the winning compositions in the Austin (Texas) Mandolin Orchestra’s “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” competition. • Seven Marches for Saxophone Quartet was a Finalist in the UMKC Musica Nova competition. • Milkweed for alto flute, piano and vibraphone, selected as one of the four pieces to be performed in the UMKC Musica Nova competition

Derek Jenkins (DMA candidate) • Winner, MMTA/MNTA New Composition Commission • Winner, Missouri State University Composition Festival Call for Scores • Honorable Mention, 2016 RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Competition • Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award

Ted King-Smith (DMA candidate) • Selected as a finalist in the American Prize in the Chamber Music category. • Art in the Loop grant (Kansas City, MO) two support performances of my music for a performance at the UMKC Composition Workshop in June and Prairie Logic in August with the Mnemosyne Quartet and Saxophone professor Zach Shemon. • Awarded an ArtSounds grant for Celestial Metamorphosis; a collaborative performance with Cody Kauhl, Eli Hougland, the Mnemosyne Quartet, and the Ensemble of Irreproducible Outcomes.

Steven Landis (DMA candidate) • SWARM!!!, for saxophone quartet won first prize in the UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competition. • Burnt Ends was awarded the UMKC Gerald Kemner prize for Orchestral Composition.

Daniel Morel (DMA candidate) • UMKC Opportunity Fellowship Scholarship and stipend in recognition of achievement as disabled student

SHAO Zheng (MM candidate) • Winner, Seattle Symphony Celebrate Asia! Composition Competition • Xian Ge for piano trio, one of four finalists for the UMKC Chamber Composition Competition

Amao Wang (DMA candidate) • Selected for the Winter Banff Musicians in Residence Program, Banff Center, Canada • Finalist, The ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Zane Winter (MM Candidate) • Winner of 2015 Exchange of Midwest Composers Conference call for scores (Invention) • Winner of 2015 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant ($2000) • Finalist: New Music USA Project Grants

YAN Yiguo (DMA Candidate) • Winner of the American Prize (Professional Division) in Opera, Theater and Film Composition

Juried Conference Performances, Paper Presentations and Panels

Tatev Amiryan (DMA candidate) • The Smile of a Fallen Angel, for theremin and piano, Satenik Hakobyan-Ulikhanyan theremin, Anahit Dilbaryan, piano, Armenian Young Composers Chamber Music Festival, Composers Union of , , Armenia • Waiting For The Dawn for solo piano, Hayk Melikyan, piano, Armenian Music Concert dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Handel Hall, Halle, Germany

Stacy Busch (MM candidate) • Paper accepted "Emancipating Schumann" for the 2016 CMS Regional Conference

Tyler Capp (DMA candidate) • PUBLIQ Access selected composer, PUBLIQuartet, DiMenna Center for Classical Music, NYC • Thailand International Composition Festival, Mahidol University, Thailand

Jiyoun CHUNG (DMA candidate) • Airirang Fantasie for string quartet, Singapore Asian Composers Festival, Singapore.

Philip DeWalt (DMA candidate) • Spanish Dagger for mandolin orchestra, Classical Mandolin Society of America Conference, Austin, TX. • The Catch-Up Game for mandolin orchestra, Classical Mandolin Society of America Conference, Austin, TX.

Aaron Hill (BM candidate) • Exchange of Midwest Composers Conference performance of Polarity • KC Fringe Festival performance of Words + Music Showcase

Derek Jenkins (DMA candidate) • SCI 50th Anniversary National Conference in Gainesville, FL • SCI Conference Region VI in Arkadelphia, AR • CMS Southern Conference in Columbus, MS

Ted King-Smith (DMA candidate) • Work performed at the Florida State University Festival of New Music • Work performed at the SCI Region VI Conferences at Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, AR • Work performed at the College Music Society Pacific Region Conference • Work performed at the Exchange of Midwest Composers Conference 2015 in Iowa City, IA • Work performed at the the City Electroacoustic Music Festival • Work performed at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Kansas City, KS • Work performed at the UMKC Summer Composition Workshop • Wanderings on the Divide was premiered by the Hartt School Symphony Band, Hartford, CT

Steven Landis (DMA candidate) • SWARM!!!, for saxophone quartet performed at the National SCI Conference hosted by The University of Florida. • String Quintet No. 1 (ghost town portraits); International Society of Bassists Convention, State University.

Michael Miller (DMA candidate) • My Trip to the Kansas City Zoo, Mnemosyne Quartet with Zach Shemon, Art in the Loop Creative Placemaking Project, Kansas City, MO • My Trip to the Kansas City Zoo, Mnemosyne Quartet with Zach Shemon, UMKC Summer Composition Workshop. • Premier, new work for two improvisation ensembles; viola, cello, vibraphone, clarinet, bass clarinet, electronics and video (electronics by Eli Hougland, video by Eric Souther), Analog Drift Concert funded by an Artsounds Grant. • Premiere: Nicodemus! The beds are burning again (piano concerto), Keith Kirchoff, piano, with the Midwest Chamber Ensemble. • Premiere: Copper Birds, for amplified string trio, Charlotte Street's ‘The Beautiful Noises Concert’. Made possible by a grant from charlotte Street Foundation.

Daniel Morel (DMA candidate) • Electronic Music Midwest - Kansas City, KS • AHS Conference - Logan, UT Work presented by Lilac 94 Harp Duo • Thailand International Composition Festival, Mahidol University - Bangkok, Thailand • Exchange of Midwest Composers Conference - Iowa City, IA • Manchester New Music Festival - North Manchester, IN Two works selected. • National Association of Composers/USA Annual Conference - Atlanta, GA Two works selected.

Aubrie Powell (MM candidate) • The Colored Horses, for guitar quartet, highSCORE recital of Apeiron Quartet • The Hermit for Chamber Orchestra, read by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony • Lizard King, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, and cello, Rocky Ridge Composer Recital

Ben Stevenson (MM candidate) • temps limite for fixed media - premiered at Electronic Music Midwest, Kansas City, KS • Virulent Strain for Piano trio - premiered by the Beo String Quartet and Tomoko Deguchi, piano, Charlotte New Music Festival • plink, plink plink... for Toy Piano - premiered at the Charlotte New Music Festival

Amao WANG (DMA candidate) • The Feeble Breeze, the Sullen Spring, NewEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Kansas City, MO • Returning Home, Intimacy of Creativity World Premier Concert, Hong Kong • Returning Home, Intimacy of Creativity Preview Concert 2, Hong Kong • Tibetan Tableaux for full orchestra read by Kansas City Symphony, Kansas City, MO

Zane Winter (MM Candidate) • Paper presentation: Notational Problems in Contemporary Cello Music: Exchance of Midwest Composers Conference

Other Performances, Readings & Broadcasts

Seth Davis, Josiah Sprankle (BM Candidates) -- with Brittany Sawtelle • “White Noise” – a Freshman composer group project with video and improvisation

Carl Schumacher (BM Candidate) – with Thom Hoskins and Kameron Sheffield • “Concerto Grocery” – a Freshman composer group project with vegetable instruments

Tatev Amiryan (DMA candidate) • The Smile of a Fallen Angel, Thorwald Jørgensen, theremin, Bart de Graaf, piano, Chamber music concert "de Nacht," Brabants Conservatorium, Tilburg, Netherlands • Tristesse for solo piano, Gevorg Badalyan, piano, KOMITASIN project, Gafeschyan Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia • Remembrance for solo piano, Takahiro Akiba, piano, concert of Armenian piano music, Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, , Russia

Jiyoun CHUNG (DMA candidate) • My Beautiful One, Come with Me for SATB and piano, Bucheon Philhamonic Orchestra Chorus, Bucheon, Korea

Seth Davis (BM candidate) • Performance of White Noise collaborative composition project • Reading of The Cave by the PRISM Saxophone Quartet

Brian Denmark (BM candidate) • Senior Recital, UMKC

Morgan Greenwood (MM candidate) • Vessel in a Drift of Diamond Light in the Sky of the Mind for piano, European premiere at 'RISUONANZE 2015 - incontri di nuove musiche.'

AJ Harbison (MM candidate) • Fanfare for the Common Kid performed by the students of Harmony Project KC, Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch, Kansas City, MO • Paul: The Road To Damascus performed by LifeHouse Theater, Redlands, CA • Ad Lib(er Abaci) performed by Natalie Brooke Higgins, University of Missouri- Kansas City, Kansas City, MO • Cantata for saxophone quartet read by PRISM Quartet • Shards for string orchestra read by UMKC Conservatory Orchestra

Dillon Henry (DMA candidate) • Orchestral performance by the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra

Aaron Hill (BM candidate) • Premiere of "Polarity" for tuba and piano, Kansas City, MO • Premiere of opera one-act, Conversations With A Dream • Symphony no 1, Mvt III (reading by UMKC Symphony Orchestra) • Premiere of Wandering About the Edge for solo cello (Guild Concert) • Premiere of "Concerning Beauty...." for tuba and piano • "... In this kingdom by the sea." (Reading by the UMKC Symphony Orchestra)

Derek Jenkins (DMA candidate) • Fountain City Brass Band (at the Midwest Clinic, Chicago, IL) • University of Florida Symphonic Band • University of Arkansas Wind Symphony • Henderson State University Wind Ensemble • Mid America Freedom Band • Faculty Members at Arkansas State University • Carl Schurz High School String Orchestra • "action/reaction" for solo saxophone performed in Austria

Logan Jungman (BM candidate) • "Intensify" (Solo Clarinet), premiered by Wailani Ronquillo, UMKC Compllaborations • "The Phoenix Who Survived" (Choral), premiered by Raymore-Peculiar High School • "The Fallen Angel" (Wind Ensemble/Concert Band), premiered by Raymore-Peculiar High School • "Dark Thoughts of the Soul" (Solo Piano), premiered by Allison Shinnick, Guild Concert • "Mysterious Darkness" (Orchestra) I, read by UMKC Orchestra in November • "Concertpiece for Horn and Piano", premiered by Stefeny Jungbluth and Allison Shinnick, Guild Concert

Arsid Ketjuntra (DMA candidate) • Work performed by the Omaha Symphony at the Educational Concert Series

Ted King-Smith (DMA candidate) • Work performed at Prairie Logic, Kansas City, MO by Mnemosyne Quartet & Saxophonist Zach Shemon

Steven Landis (DMA candidate) • Premiere of Thronateeska (concerto for quartet and orchestra) commissioned by the Albany Symphony (Ga.) for its 50th season. • Premiere of Love Letter Written in a Burning Building, a monodrama for female voice and mixed chamber ensemble, by The Curiosity Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY. • Love Letter Written in a Burning Building, a monodrama for female voice and mixed ensemble, The Curiosity Cabinet, Whitney George, conductor, Brooklyn NY. • Transit of Venus for solo flute, Kansas City, MO

MA Qingnan (MM candidate) • “Yu LinLing” for soprano and piano (premiere by Ying Huang and Hui Yao), Guild Concert, University of Missouri-Kansas City • “Wild Tales” for piano solo (premiere by Hui Yao) and “Yu LinLing” for Tenor and piano (premiere by Xin Shao and Hui Yao), University of Missouri-Kansas City • “Heartbeat” for full orchestra, UMKC Student Orchestra Reading directed by Luis Viquez, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Daniel Morel (DMA candidate) • Shaded Rhythms, for clarinet Kansas City, MO • where they never let you change, for cello and fixed media, KcEMA, Kansas City, MO • Lament, for oboe and clarinet, Chamber Music with Friends, Satellite Beach, FL • KC Blue, for harp duo Lilac 94 Harp Duo, Latham, NY • Meditation, for flugelhorn, horn, and fixed media, Kansas City, MO • Little One, KC Fringe Festival: Kansas City, MO Three performances • cloudy above, murky below, for five violas (premiere), Michigamme, MI • KC Blue, for harp duo Lilac 94 Harp Duo St. Watertown, WI • KC Blue, for harp duo Lilac 94 Harp Duo Waukesha, WI • KC Blue, for harp duo Lilac 94 Harp Duo Cincinnati, OH • KC Blue, for harp duo Lilac 94 Harp Duo Champaign, IL • KC Blue, for harp duo Lilac 94 Harp Duo Kansas City, MO • KC Blue, for harp duo Lilac 94 Harp Duo Ypsilanti, MI • Lament, for clarinet and cello, Universidad de Costa Rica San Ramon, Costa Rica • Dove Song, for clarinet and cello, Universidad de Costa Rica San Ramon, Costa Rica • Little One, for mezzo-soprano (workshop) Kansas City, MO • Shaded Rhythms, for clarinet, Universidad de Costa Rica San Ramon, Costa Rica • Lament, for flute and saxophone (premiere of arrangement) West Hartford, CT • Meditation, for flugelhorn, horn, and fixed media, Kansas City, MO • Superior String Tango, for string orchestra (reading), Kansas City, MO • Desert Thunderclouds, for orchestra (reading), Kansas City, MO • in perpetuity, for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano (dance concert with electronic playback), Kansas City, MO • Superior String Tango, for string orchestra, Kansas City, MO • Serenade, for horn quartet, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa • Meditation, for flugelhorn, horn, and fixed media (premiere), Kansas City, MO • Wafting Mists, for chamber orchestra, Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra, New Britain, CT • Little One, for mezzo-soprano (workshop reading), Kansas City, MO • Shaded Rhythms, for clarinet (premiere), Kansas City, MO • Anemoi, for trumpet, flute, violin, viola, cello, and piano, Cuatro Puntos, Norwalk, CT • Anemoi, for trumpet, flute, violin, viola, cello, and piano (premiere), Cuatro Puntos, Glastonbury, CT

Aubrie Powell (MM candidate) • aɪ Kænt Spiːk, for Violn, Cello, and Piano trio, performed on UMKC Composers’ Guild Concert • Promenade, Performed by Baldwin Wallace Symphony Orchestra • The Raindance Café, a short chamber opera performed on a New Music Concert • Shadow Waltz, an electronic piece written for the Fyoo zh en dance concert

SHAO Zheng (DMA candidate) • Xiao Yao You for orchestra; China National Opera House orchestra, National Center of Performing Arts, Beijing, China • Bai Chuan Fu Hai for orchestra; Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s Celebrate Asia Concert

Ben Stevenson (MM candidate) • Them. for fixed media - dance collaboration, Kansas City, MO • Endless Sky for string orchestra - premiered by the Ruskin High SchoolOrchestra, Kansas City, MO • ...before they were breathed... for Flute, Viola, and Harp – Fusebox, Kansas City, MO

WANG Amao (DMA candidate) • To a Mountain Flower, Shades of Chinese Essence Chong Qing University, Chong Qing, China • To a Mountain Flower, Shades of Chinese Essence Chong Qing Normal University, Chong Qing, China • Returning Home, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China • To A Mountain Flower Kansas City, MO • Impression of Beijing Opera for full orchestra, UMKC Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City, MO • Shades of Chinese Essence, Pianoforte Studio, Chicago, IL

Zane Winter (MM Candidate) • Featured on: Composer's Circle, Listen Local (w/ FuseBox and as an individual) and ArtsKC newsletter.

ZHOU Jing (DMA candidate) • Su mu zhe - performed with Music from China in Bryant Park in New York and Pittsburgh

Guest Lectures, Adjudications and Residencies

Tatev Amiryan (DMA candidate) • Lecture-recital - "Meeting with Composer" series, Naregatsi Art Institute, Yerevan, Armenia, • Artist Residency - Southern State University; lecture-recital and series of lectures on Armenia music, SCSU, New Haven, CT • Lecture-recital in commemoration of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, featuring Armenian music 1915-2015, sponsored by UConn Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT • Lecture-recital “Armenian Folk Music Traditions in Contemporary Music,” Armenian Symposium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL • Lecture-recital, 3rd Hildegard Festival of Women in The Arts, “Storytelling: Narrative Arts in the New Century,” State University Stanislaus, Turlock, CA

Tyler Capp (DMA candidate) • Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency • Escape 2 Create Residency

Philip DeWalt (DMA candidate) • Co-host, workshop on composing for mandolin orchestras, Classical Mandolin Society of America Conference, Austin, TX.

Derek Jenkins (DMA candidate) • Guest Composer at Clarke University

Commissions, Recordings, and Publications

Tatev Amiryan (DMA candidate) • Waiting For The Dawn for solo piano, included in the album of pianist Hayk Melikyan “Echoes of Altar,” released by the Ministry of Diaspora of Armenia in commemoration of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide 1915

Jiyoun CHEUNG (DMA candidate) • My Beautiful One included on CD release Ick Hyun Cho and Bucheon Civic Chorale, Korea.

Morgan Greenwood (MM candidate) • Release of Riala Ensemble "Be Here | Be There" on vinyl through Haymaker Records

AJ Harbison (MM candidate) • Fanfare for the Common Kid for the students of Harmony Project KC, commissioned by FuseBox

Kalo Hoyle (BM candidate) • Release of Riala Ensemble "Be Here | Be There" on vinyl through Haymaker Records

Derek Jenkins (DMA candidate) • University of Tennessee at Martin Wind Ensemble • Tubist Brielan Andersen • West Branch High School Concert Band

Ted King-Smith (DMA candidate) • 6 works were published through Murphy Music Press for wind ensemble or saxophone(s)

Steven Landis (DMA candidate) • Thronateeska (concerto for quartet and orchestra) commissioned by the Albany Symphony (Ga.) • Commissioned by Tubist Brielan Anderson for a set of miniatures for tuba and combo. Premiere and CD recording in 2016.

Krista Pojman (BM candidate) • Commissioned to compose music and lyrics for “Wiretapped”, a new musical for the Coterie Theater, Kansas City, MO.

Zane Winter (MM Candidate) • Commission: I learned a thing or two, for fl., vla., hp. From FuseBox New Music • Commission: sow for me an acre...between, for Euphonium and Horn, commissioned by Scott and Sarah Rodgers • Commission: were you there? For soprano and guitar, commissioned by Maurice Marks • Commissioned for a new work by the Valparaiso University Symphony for orchestra and 3 conductors

Jing ZHOU (DMA candidate) • Duet for zheng and clarinet, and duet for sheng and clarinet commissioned by Dr. Jun Qian for CD release • Su mu zhe - Nostalgia commissioned for a vocal CD, performed with New Ear Ensemble in Kansas City

Workshops & Masterclasses Attended

Gavin Brivik (BM candidate) • Selected for the Film Composers Summer Workshop at New York University

Arsid Ketjuntra (DMA candidate) • Selected to attend the 2015 Fresh Ink Workshop with John Corigliano

Derek Jenkins (DMA candidate) • Completed course called "Effective Teaching Practices" through the Association of College and University Educators • Selected to take course entitled "Designing Courses for Significant Learning" through the University of Missouri System

Aubrie Powell (MM candidate) • highSCORE Music Festival () • Rocky Ridge Music Center Young Artist Program (composition and bass performance)

WANG Amao (DMA candidate) • HongKong Intimacy of Creativity Program

Other Accomplishments

Ted King-Smith (DMA candidate) • Performed in the Kemper Museum and Charlotte Street Open Studios, as part of the KcEMA season, and other events with the Mnemosyne Quartet.

Michael Miller (DMA candidate) • Performance with Mnemosyne Quartet, with KcEMA, opening of Kevin Harris’ Survival Always Sounds So Exciting, La Esquina (Kansas City, MO) • Premiered Ted King-Smith’s Soundtrack of an Open Road at Electronic Music Midwest (Kansas City, KS) • Performance with Mnemosyne Quartet, opening of Dark Days, Bright Nights, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO) • Performance with Mnemosyne Quartet, opening of Adam Cvijanovic’s American Montage, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO) • Performance with Mnemosyne Quartet, Open Elevators, a performance installation at Town Pavilion. Charlotte Street Open Studios (Kansas City, MO) • Performance with Mnemosyne quartet, Happy Hour Westport coffee house in conjunction with KcEMA (Kansas City, MO), supported by New Music USA

WANG Amao (DMA candidate) • Performed Returning Home with Dr. Alvin Wong, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing • Performed Returning Home with cellist Jesse Christeson, Hong Kong (2 performances)

Zane Winter (MM candidate) • Performer: FuseBox New Music Fundraiser