Dr. Martin P. Regan LAAH 233, MS4240, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4240 tel: (979) 458-0939 e-mail: [email protected]

Education

2002-2006 University of Hawai‘i, Manoa. Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Ph.D. in Music 2000-2002 Tokyo College of Music. Tokyo, , Research Student 1999-2000 University of California, Riverside. Riverside, CA, Composition studies 1990-1995 Oberlin College. Oberlin, Ohio B.M. in Composition, B.A. in English and East Asian Studies

Academic Positions

2007-present Texas A&M University Department of Performance Studies Associate Professor of Music / Associate Head, Department of Performance Studies 2002-2005 University of Hawai‘i, Manoa Department of Music Co-instructor 2003, 2004 Hawai‘i Tokai International College Adjunct Faculty

Publications

• Summer Dances. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan. 2016. R00010 • Flowers, Birds, Wind, Moon. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan. 2016. R0009 • fastpass! (2007) for and ko-. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan. 2012. R0001-1 • Song-Poem of the Eastern Clouds (2001) for and 21-string . Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan, 2012. No. R0002-1 • Evanescent Yearning (2008) for shamisen and koto. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan, 2012. No. R0003-1 • Light of the Rainbow (2003) for shamisen and 17-string koto. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan, 2012. R0004-1 • Maqam (2005) for solo shamisen. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan, 2012. No. R0005-1 • Shadows of the Moon (2008) for shakuhachi and shamisen. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan. 2012. R0006-1 • Voyage (2008) for string quartet and shakuhachi. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan, 2012. No. R000-7 • dragoneyes (2004) for shakuhachi, shamisen, and 21-string koto. Mother Earth Publishing: Tokyo, Japan, 2012. R0008-1 • English translation of Composing for Japanese Instruments (Miki, Minoru. Nihongakkihō. 3rd ed. [Tokyo: Ongakunotomosha, 1998]) published by the University of Rochester Press (September 2008)

Courses Taught

• MUSC204 (Music Theory I): Structural principles of diatonic harmony and voice leading, phrase and period structure, rhythmic structure and aural and written analysis and composition of small instrumental and vocal musical forms found in common practice period and recent popular musics • MUSC205 (Music Theory II): Continuation of structural principles of tonal harmony and voice leading, including chromaticism and modulation; composition and analysis of larger musical forms, including binary, rounded binary, ternary, rondo, theme and variations and sonata form • MUSC206 (Contemporary Music): Continuation of structural principles of tonal harmony and voice leading, including late nineteenth-century extended chromaticism; introduction through analysis and composition to twentieth-century musical practice, including impressionism, pandiatonicism, atonality and serialism, aleatory, minimalism and electronic music • MUSC207 (Form and Analysis): Focus on analysis of common practice period and twentieth-century small and large forms; substantial listening analysis and reading assignments will support the development of an advanced understanding of methods of analysis of important works

1 • MUSC/THAR328 (Japanese Traditional Performing Arts): Study of various genres of Japanese performing arts from the 7th century to the present; understanding these genres in their historical and cultural contexts and recognizing shared aesthetic values

Selected Scholarships, Grants, Awards, and Prizes

Clare Hall Visiting Research Fellow, Cambridge University (2015-2016), Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency (2015), Program to Enhance Scholarly and Creative Activities (TAMU, 2013/2010/2008), College of Liberal Arts International Travel Grant (TAMU, 2012-2013), Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Enrichment Program (TAMU, 2013/2011/2009/2008), Crawley Family Faculty Fellow in Music (2010-2012), Japan Foundation Performing Arts Japan (2009–2010), CLLA Research Enhancement Grant (TAMU, 2009), Glasscock Stipendiary Faculty Fellow (TAMU, 2009–2010), IRTAG (TAMU, 2008), Glassock Center Notable Lecture Grant (TAMU, 2008), Big XII Faculty Fellowship (TAMU, 2007), College of Liberal Arts International Travel Grant (TAMU, 2007-2008), Crown Prince Akihito Award (2005-2007), Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (2005-2006)

Selected Commissions and Performances

• Pule Ho’omaika’i.Performed at the 2017 Shakuhachi Festival of the Pacific, Orvis Auditorium (Honolulu, HI), December 18, 2017 • Frolicking with the Birds. Performed at the Japan Society (New York, NY), November 8, 2017 • Cherry Blossoms and the Girl. Performed at the Modern Japanese Song Association, 12th Annual “Together with Japanese Instruments” concert series, Sumida Triphony Hall (Tokyo, Japan), October 29, 2017 • Frolicking with the Birds. Performed at the John F. Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), April 1, 2017 • Shamisen Concerto No. 1: “Polaris” Performed at the National Opera Center (New York, NY), January 8, 2017 • Playing in the Moon. Performed at Sumida Triphony Hall (Tokyo, Japan), November 10, 2016 • Three Incantations. Performed at Kioi Small Hall (Tokyo, Japan), July 23, 2016 • Alleluia. Lee Hall, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK), June 12, 2016 • Send off at Yellow Crane Tower. Performed at Densho Hall, Shibuya Cultural Center Owada (Tokyo, Japan), June 9, 2016 • Silent Cry of a Heron. Performed at the Carl Nielson Museum (Odense, Denmark), May 22, 2016 • shadowspot. Performed at Auditorio Dai Hall, Centro Cutural Peruano Japonés (Lima, Peru), May 25, 2016 • Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore... Performed at Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Cambridge (Cambridge, UK), March 13, 2016 • Shadows of the Moon. Performed at Asia Society Texas Center, February 26, 2016 • Flowers Dance / Frolicking with the Birds. Performed at Rubin Museum of Art, February 24th, 2016. • Frolicking with the Birds and Silence of the Moon. Performed at The National Opera Center, October 15, 2015 • Silence. Commissioned and performed by Aperio at the Asia Society Texas Center, May 14, 2015 • Splash of Indigo. Performed at The Wortham Center, April 10, 2015 • Splash of Indigo. Commissioned and performed by the Apollo Chamber Players at Christ the King Lutheran Church, January 11 and 13, 2015 • 21-String Koto Concerto No. 1: “Spirit of the Mountains.” Performed at Ohga Hall, Karuizawa, Japan, November 1, 2014 • The Memory Stone. Commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera and performed at the Asia Society Texas Center, April 9-11, 2013 • Frolicking with the Birds and fastpass! Performed at Tenri Cultural Institute, NY, October 14, 2012 • Composition recital Forest Whispers... The Music of Marty Regan presented at the 2012 World Shakuhachi Festival in Kyoto, June 1, 2012 • Voyage. Performed at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C., April 21, 2012

2 • Maqam. Performed at the Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music and Tenri Cultural Institute, NY, October 14 and 15, 2011 • Scattering Light, Scattering Flowers. Performed at the Nihon Kakyoku (Modern Japanese song) Association annual concert at Kioi Hall, Tokyo, August 30, 2011 • Forest Whispers... Performed at the CMS International Conference at Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, on July 5, 2011 • Voyage. Performed at the “Masterpieces for Traditional Japanese Instruments” at Osaka Philharmonic Hall, July 18, 2010 • waterfall. Commissioned by the Hokuto International Music Festival, premiered, August 7, 2010 • In the Night Sky. Commissioned by AURA-J, premiered, July 1, 2010 • 21-String Koto Concerto No. 2: “Love” Commissioned by AURA-J, premiered, October 14, 2009 • Portraits of Old Istanbul. Commissioned by the Hokuto International Music Festival, premiered on August 9, 2009 • Shakuhachi Concerto No. 1. Commissioned by the Hokuto International Music Festival, premiered on August 23, 2008. • Voyage. Commissioned by the World Shakuhachi Festival 2008, premiered in Sydney, Australia on July 6, 2008 • The Path of Philosophy. Commissioned by Duo Sōkyō, premiered on February 7, 2008 • flamefox. Commissioned by the Shakuhachi Summer Camp of the Rockies, premiered on June 25, 2007 • In Remembrance... Commissioned by the Hawai‘i State Music Educator’s Association, premiered on November 10, 2006

Commercial Recordings

• The Music of Marty Regan, Vol. 1: Splash of Indigo. Navona Records NV 6064, 2016. • Flowers, Birds, Wind, Moon. Performed by Duo YUMENO, 2015. • Shamisen Works by Marty Regan: Performed by Tetsuya Nozawa. Kokoro Records KKR 006, 2014. • Marty Regan’s Selected Works for Japanese Instruments, Vol. 3: Scattering Light, Scattering Flowers. Navona Records NV 5933, 2013. • Works for Shakuhachi by Marty Regan: Voyage / Performed by Shōzan Tanabe, Bamboo Records BCD-082, 2013. • Marty Regan’s Selected Works for Japanese Instruments, Vol. 2: Magic Mirror. Navona Records NV 5876, 2012. • 21-String Koto Concerto No. 2: “Love” on: Matsumura, Erina and Momogumi: Love. Tokyo CMC Entertainment CMCA1-2011, 2011. • fastpass! (shamisen and ko-tsuzumi) on: Fine Music Vol. 1. Navona Records NV 5841, 2011 • Taketori Monogatari (Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) and Kaien (‘Encounter’) on: Taketori Monogatari: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, a musical rendition of the Japanese folktale composed by Marty Regan. Discovery Firm INDIE CD, 2011. • In the Night Sky (shakuhachi, 21-string koto, and percussion) on: Fujikawa, Izumi: Izumi Fujikawa World Premieres of Koto Works: Vol.1. Ring Records RICD0001, 2011. • Marty Regan’s Selected Works for Japanese Instruments, Vol. 1: Forest Whispers... Navona Records NV 5831, 2010. • Evanescent Yearning (shamisen and koto) on: Nozawa, Tetsuya: Tsuki, Sayu. Kokoro Records KKR-002, 2010. • Shadows of the Moon (shamisen and shakuhachi) on: Eishō Ban: Shadows of the Moon. 24 Records TFRC-1001, 2010 • Maqam (shamisen) on: Nozawa, Tetsuya: Message. Sion Records SCD 015, 2007. • dragoneyes (shakuhachi, 21-string koto, and shamisen) on: Matsumura, Erina. dragoneyes. Tokyo CMC Entertainment CMC061105, 2006. • Light of the Rainbow (shamisen and bass koto) on: Nozawa, Tetsuya. Shamisen Concerto. Sion Records SCD 0012, 2006. • wildfire (shamisen, two 13-string kotos, and bass koto) on: Nozawa, Tetsuya. wildfire. Sion Records SCD 009, 2004. • riverrun (shakuhachi, 21-string koto, Mongolian spike fiddle, sanshin, and ) on: Asia Ensemble. Yui Records YUCD0001, 2003.

Invited Presentations

• Presentation, “Composing for Japanese Instruments,” at The University of Cambridge, Music Faculty (October 2015) • Presentation, “Composing for Japanese Instruments,” at The University of Cambridge, Music Faculty (October 2015) • Recital, “Flower, Birds, Wind, Moons: The Music of Marty Regan” at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM (August 2015) • Recital, “Silences: The Music of Marty Regan” at the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, TX (May 2015)

3 • Recital, “Flower, Birds, Wind, Moon: The Music of Marty Regan” at the Annenburg Presidential Conference Center in College Station, TX (April 2015) • Presentation, “Composing for Japanese Instruments,” at SOAS, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (November 2012) • Presentation, “Composing for Japanese Instruments,” at Shanghai Conservatory of Music (May 2011) • Invited as a guest speaker for a lecture series entitled “Contemporary Japanese Music” at Taiwan National University of Fine Arts (April 2011) • Recital, “Forest Whispers... The Music of Marty Regan” at The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist in San Francisco, CA (February 2011) • Recital, “Forest Whispers... The Music of Marty Regan” at the Annenburg Presidential Conference Center in College Station, TX (November 2010) • Invited to curate a concert entitled “New Music for the Shakuhachi” at CU Boulder (October 2010) • Invited as a guest speaker for a symposium, “On the Future of Shamisen Music,” sponsored by the NPO Contemporary Shamisen Music Society (June 2010) • Presentation, “My Music for Traditional Japanese Instruments,” at Senzoku University (June 2010) • Invited to curate a concert and deliver pre-concert lectures for a concert entitled “Music on the Move: East Asia” at the San Antonio Museum of Art (February 2010) • Invited as a guest composer and conductor to the Hokuto International Music Festival in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan (August 2006–2009) • Residency at CU Boulder (October 2009) • Recital, “Marty Regan’s Selected Works for Japanese Instruments” at the World Shakuhachi Festival 08’ in Sydney, Australia (July 2008) • Residency at the U. of Texas, Austin under the auspices of the Big XII Faculty Fellowship (December 2007) • Lecture, “On the Concept of Timbral Modulation in Sankyoku” at the ICTM Musics of East Asia 1st Annual Conference in Shanghai, China (December 2007) • Workshop, “Composing for the Shakuhachi and 21-String Koto” at the Today 2007 Conference in Baltimore, MD (March 2007)

Radio Broadcasts

• Splash of Indigo (2015) Performance Today with Fred Child on May 18th, 2015 • Song-Poem of the Eastern Clouds (2001) Worlds of Music on WUNH 91.3, Durham, NH • In Remembrance... (2006) "The New Edge” on WMBR 88.1FM, Cambridge, MA on August 16th, 2011 • Evanescent Yearning... Music Destination on otticFM, Sinzig, Germany • Forest Whispers... CJAM 91.5 MHz-Windsor, ON, Canada on August 16, 2010 • Forest Whispers... CJAM 91.5 MHz-Windsor, ON, Canada on September 7, 2010 • Evanescent Yearning... Classical Discoveries on WPRB 103.3FM, Princeton on October 6, 2010 • fastpass!, Song-Poem of the Eastern Clouds, Forest Whispers..., and Evanescent Yearning... “Listen Globally” KEOS 89.1FM, on November 10, 2010 • Evanescent Yearning... on NHK’s 邦楽の一時 (‘A Moment for Japanese Music’) on July 29th and 30th, 2010 Professional affiliations

• ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) • The Hōgaku Composers Alliance 2010

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