Stephen Rush

Professor School of Music University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2217

(734) 904-8514 E-Mail:[email protected] FAX 734-763-5063 EDUCATION

D.M.A. Eastman School of Music;the University of Rochester (1985) Major: Composition Cognate: Piano Performance

M.M. Eastman School of Music;the University of Rochester (1983) Major: Composition Cognate: Piano Performance

B.A. Michigan State University (1981) Major: Composition and Theory Cognate: Piano Performance

Principal teachers in composition include Samuel Adler, Gunther Schuller, Warren Benson, Allan Schindler, Thomas Benjamin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1987-present Professor of Music Technology Also working in the Dance, Composition, Music Theory Departments, and Co-ordinator of Creative Process (UARTS 250) School of Music University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan

1985-1987 Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition Oklahoma State University

1984-1985 Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition William Carey College Hattiesburg, Mississippi

PUBLICATIONS (MUSIC) (due to the current publishing climate I do not usually publish my music)

Sonata for Carillon, “In Tempi Bellum”, commissioned by Jeffrey Bossin (Berlin Tiergarten carilloneur), published by American Guild of Carilloneurs Press (2007)

Tuba Sonata, Tuba-Euphonium Press (2004)

Inner Rebellion for trombone, percussion and piano (Greensboro, NC, C. Alan Publications, 1998)

Mas Fuerte for six percussionists (Greensboro, NC, C. Alan Publications, 1998)

Rebellion for trombone, percussion and piano (Greensboro, NC, C. Alan Publications, 1998)

Nature's Course for Marimba and Tape (Greensboro, NC, C. Alan Publications, 1995)

Breathe in the Spirit (Hymn) (included in Catching Your Breath by Donald Postema, Grand Rapids, MI, Christian Reformed Church Publications, 1996)

Seventh Heaven Rag for Saxophone Quartet (Needham, MA, Dorn Publications, 1993)

Three Etudes for Carillon (Ann Arbor, MI, Carillon Music from Michigan, 1992)

By the River for Solo Saxophone (Needham, MA, Dorn Publications, 1986)

Fierce Moonbeams for Solo Flute (Needham, MA, Dorn Publications, 1978)

PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS) Better Get It In Your Soul:What Liturgists can Learn from Jazz, co-authored with Rev. Reid Hamilton, Church Publishing, New York, NY, 2008

Harmolodics with Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz Revelations, Based on an extensive interview with Ornette Coleman, Routledge Publishing, New York, New York (to be released in 2016)

ARTICLES

Why I should Take Creative Process, and Why I Won’t-published online

Survival Kit for Academic Musicians in Dance, published by International Guild of Musicians in Dance, Winter, 2006

RECORDING OF ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS

Inner Rebellion (for trb/pf/perc) recorded by David Jackson and Joe Gramley for Block M Records (unreleased currently)

Interior Castle for St. Theresa (Symphony #2), recorded by Ken Kiesler and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra (unreleased currently)

Dark Matters (DVD and vinyl record), 6 original compositions with video projections; recorded with Jeremy Edwards and Andrew Bishop; (Self-released, 2015)

Naked Dance (vinyl record), 6 original compositions; recorded with Jeremy Edwards and Andrew Bishop; (Self-released, 2014)

Concierto Brasiliera , Clarinet Concerto, recorded by Richard Stolzman and the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, (Boston, MA, MMC Recordings, 2013)

Inner Rebellion and Rebellion recorded by Toni DiStanza, Mark Hetzler and Jessica Johnson; (Summit Records, 2013)

Nature's Course for Marimba and tape (Boston, MA, MMC Recordings, 1996 with Nick Petrella) (also recorded by Alison Shaw on Eroica Records, 2006)

Cerebral, Quartex (free music quartet) Ann Arbor, MI (Rushlive Recordings, 2002)

Cartridge Music (by John Cage), Quartex (free music quartet) Ann Arbor, MI (Rushlive Recordings 2002)

Bad Guys and Choro pra Merilina recorded by Roscoe Mitchell’s Bad Guys Ensemble on Il Manifesto recordings (Italy) and on Delmark Recordings (Chicago) 2001

Randalog for electronic tape (Boston, MA, Centaur Recordings, 2000)

Possession for orchestra (Boston, MA, MMC Recordings 2000)

Akimbo, Choro, Countin', Bad Guys, Diddlin' Bo (Boston, MA, MMC Recordings, 2000)

Testigo (piano), Migrations (electronic composition) and Breathe in the Spirit (Hymn) recorded on Space for God with Donald Postema, Christian Reformed Church Publications, Grand Rapids, MI, 1997)

Rebellion for trombone, percussion and piano(recorded by members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra) (Sacramento, CA, Cala Records 1996)

Humandiños for electronic tape (Boston, MA, MMC Recordings, 1996)

Save Changes Before Quitting for electronic tape (Boston, MA, MMC Recordings, 1996)

Murders in the Rue Morgue (electronic chamber opera) (Boston, MA, MMC Recordings, 1996)

Aeneas in Strophades for four harps and tape (Boston, MA, MMC Recordings, 1996)

RECORDINGS AS A PIANIST/SYNTHESIST/ELECTRONICS

“8-8-88” (solo piano, by Roscoe Mitchell); (Rogue Arts Records, France, 2012)

Digital Music Ensemble with Pauline Oliveros (concert DVD), released on Deep Listening Records (Oliveros’ label). 3 compositions performed by U-M’s DME with Pauline Oliveros. (Deep Listening Records, Woodstock, NY, 2011)

Escape Beam 3 Crystal Moon Cone, , with Chris Peck and Jon Moniaci; (Deep Listening Records, Woodstock, NY, 2012)

Sharks, a recording by Yuganaut (my jazz trio, released on vinyl and CD. 7 compositions co-composed by myself, Tom Abbs and Geoff Mann; (ESP-Disk Records, 2010)

Escape Beam II: Listening Music from the Age of the Crystal Moon Cone (2008)

Listening Music from the Age of the Crystal Moon Cone with Chris Peck; (2007)

New Tones by Nomo; (Ubiquity Records , 2006)

Advent Lessons and Carols, Easter Vigil (Canterbury House Recordings, Ann Arbor, MI, 2000, 2002)

Hymn for Roscoe, with Roscoe Mitchell; (MMC Recordings, 2000)

Go, Blue , with “Blue” Gene Tyranny and Digital Music Ensemble) (o.o.records, Black Rock, CT, 2000)

Hymn for Roscoe, (MMC Recordings, 2000)

Border Crossing (Equilibrium Records, Ann Arbor, MI, 1995)

GRANTS

Received funding, sponsored and working through Arts on Earth, from the Provost’s office- “Multi-disiplinary Learning Grant” to teach “Creative Process” for 2009-2011, Winter Semesters, $140,000.

To record my work “Interior Castle” (2nd Symphony)- from UMOR (authored the grant for Ken Kiesler), $14,000

Received 10,000$ funding from the International Institute’s Experiential Learning Fund to provide 33% funding for 10 students to join the Summer Intensive in India for 2011-2015 (annually for 4 years in a row)

15,000$ in funding from UMOR to take Digital Music Ensemble to New York to perform at Shapefshifter (Off-Off Broadway venue) to perform Robert Ashley’s opera “Kit Carson” and my opera “U.S. Grant- a Fluxkit Opera”

Received $60,000 in funding from M3 (M-Cubed) to create an inter-arts work called “Dark Matter” with Physicist Greg Tarlé and Visual Artist Jim Cogswell. Work shown in Beijing, China; Bath, England; many venues in the USA (science and art venues)

Received copying grant from American Music Center for copying of parts for “Tango Symphony”, to be premiered by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conducting (2010)

Center for World Performance Studies- Research Grant to locate a “host institution” in Mysore, India, 2007, $2,500

GIEU (Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates), with Carol Richardson, complete funding for 12-14 students to study Yoga/Dance/Music in Mysore, India, Summer of 2008, 23,400$

Received $8,900 from Office of Vice President for Research for production of a DVD with Digital Music Ensemble and Pauline Oliveros

Center for World Performance Studies Artist in Residency Grant- 10K to bring R.K. Srinivasan to the University of Michigan for two months (fall of 2007). He guest- lectured in over ten courses in the School of Music, gave private lessons to 8 students, and presented 4 recitals in 2007; 12,000$

GROCS Grant from the Duderstadt Center- “Haptic Theatre Of Cruelty”-a cross- disciplinary project culminating in an installation last April; faculty sponsor to 5 students, all with substantial funding, 2005. $2,000.

Ginsberg Foundation grants for Jazz Education in Ypsilanti and Brighton (MI) High Schools, 2004, 1,500$

Michigan Arts Foundation for the presentation of new music with drummer Suzie Ibarra, 2004, 1,500$ Meet the Composer grant to present Chamber Symphony, 2004, $1,000. Trinity Church-Wall Street Award-2000-3, to develop an experimental liturgical form, including modern music, improvisation, eclectic readings (3-year project grant), $100,000 GRANTS/AWARDS (continued)

Research Grant to interview son of Muddy Waters-Charles Williams for Book and DVD project. $3,500

Assembly Of Ladies- 2000 ($4,000) – to write a work for women’s voices, projections and electronics to an Anonymous 15th-century text

Smithsonian/Computerworld Honors Award-2001- for innovations in technology through the Digital Music Ensemble (directed by Stephen Rush)

Michigan Arts Award- semester leave from teaching duties to write Clarinet Concerto for Richard Stolzman and Warsaw Philharmonic-2000

Travel Grant from International Institute, Production Grant from UROP/OVPR and Dean’s Discretionary Fun for Performance of a New Work involving sculpture/computers/sound ($12,500); performed in Berlin in 1999

Copying Grant for the completion of Waltzascope for Orchestra-1997 ($500) from the Margeret Jory Copying Assistance Program through the American Music Center and the National Endowment for the Arts

Creation of a Compact Disc with Clarinetist Richard Stolzmann-1996/7 ($3,000) from the Office of the Vice-President for Research, Vice-Provost for Multi-Cultural Affairs, and the School of Music Faculty Research Fund

Creation of a Compact Disc with Jazz Legend Roscoe Mitchell-1996/7 ($11,000)from the Office of the Vice-President for Research, Vice-Provost for Multi-Cultural Affairs, and the School of Music Faculty Research Fund

Creation of a New Work for String Orchestra-1996 ($2,500) from Meet the Composer

Travel Grant for Performance of a New Work for Electronic Oboe (performed in Paris at IRCAM)-from the International Institute of the University of Michigan

Inter-disciplinary Concert with "Blue" Gene Tyranny-1995 ($1,750) from the Office of the Vice-President for Research, University of Michigan

Creation of Compact Discs with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra -1995 ($12,000) from the Office of the Vice-President for Research, University of Michigan

Lectures and Performances in Hungary and Costa Rica with dancer/choreographer Sandra Torijano-DeYoung - 1995 ($3,000) from the United States Information Agency and the International Institute of the University of Michigan

Creation of Murders in the Rue Morgue, electronic chamber opera with MIDI Graphics Interface - 1994 ($2,000) from the School of Music Faculty Development Fund, University of Michigan

Indian Music/Dance in India-Study of Bharata Natyam-1992 ($6,000) from the Office of the Vice-President for Research, University of Michigan

COMMISSIONS Trio Sadhana- for Violin, Piano and Alto Saxophone, commissioned by the Cleveland Trio, $1,000, 2008.

36 Ways, choral composition commissioned by Christ Church Cranbrook (Detroit), 800$, 2008.

Taming the Wild Ox, graphic score (water colors) for flute and any number of instruments, premiered and commissionedby Rebecca Gilbert (principal Flautist of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra), 2007, $1,000.

OVPR Grant to present my new opera, Two Candles Burning in the Duderstadt Center,, 2007, $9,500.

Sonata for Carillon, “In Tempi Bellum”, commissioned by Jeffrey Bossin (Berlin Tiergarten carilloneur), published by American Guild of Carilloneurs Press (2007), $1,000.

”Subito Grant” from Meet the Composer, to commission my work “Synchroma” for Double Bass, 2007, $500.

Path Garden- graphic score for multi-media ensemble, premiered in New York at the Bowery Poetry Club and at St. Mark’s Church Dancespace), 2007.

Fictions – an evening-length electronic work, premiered by Anita Cheng Dancers at the Joyce Theatre/Soho, in New York City, 2006.

Course and Courses II, works for solo Piano, commissioned by Chris Atzinger, St. Olaf’s College, 2006, $1,000.

String Quartet #4 (Ice Mists) for String Quartet and Sound Delay, commissioned by the Dance Festival of Heidelberg College, 2004.

¡¡Stop Blaming Columbus!!”-a Soundpainting Opera; from New York Foundation for the Arts, University of Iowa, and University of Michigan (2004-12,000$, with Walter Thompson) Dante’s Inferno: a Video Sonata “Video Sonata” for Philip Sinder and Ava Ordman (tuba and trombone, with electronics and video) commissioned for the sesquicentennial of the Michigan State University School of Music. Extensive research in Florence and in US as well, 4,000$

“Apocalypse” for video, electronics, horn and percussion, commissioned by Søren Hermansson, Michael Gould. Premiered in Stockholm, Sweden "Journey of a Thousand Miles” for soprano and piano, commissioned by Christian Matjias, performances in U.S., Mexico, Thailand and China

"Six Treatments for Carillon” for Carillon and live electronics to be performed at the International Carillon Festival in Ann Arbor, 2002, commissioned by the International Guild of

"Water Blue” for three dancers, percussion and contolled feedback–$2000 commissioned by Ayako Kato, premiered in Tokyo, Japan

COMMISSIONS (continued) "Hoop Dances” for solo bass, dancer, and projected laser “hoops” –$2000 from Dresden Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Musik

"Migrations "-1998 from Gyoryi Ballett, Hungary ($1,000)

Creation of a New Work for Choir-1996 ($2,500) from First Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Michigan

"Liturgy in Music II for Choir and Organ"-1996 from First Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Michigan

"Murders in the Rue Morgue, electronic chamber opera"-1994 from choreographer Gay Delanghe, funding from the Arts Foundation of Michigan

"Mother and Child Were Saved"-electronic score for ballet – 1993 from choreographer Whitley Setrakian and Michigan Council for the Arts

"Aeneas in Strophades" for four harps and tape-1992 from harpist Lynne Aspnes

"Three Etudes for Carillon" –1992 from Carilloneur Margo Halsted

"Liturgy in Music I for Choir and Organ"-1996 from Campus Chapel of Ann Arbor, Michigan

"Public Places, Private Spaces"-electronic score for ballet - 1986 from choreographer Bill DeYoung, funding from the Michigan Council for the Arts

SELECTED PERFORMANCES OF ORIGINAL WORKS (OR CONDUCTING PREMIERES OF WORK BY CAGE, LA MONTE YOUNG AND PHILIP GLASS)

2015 Interior Castle (2nd Symphony) performed by the University Symphony Orchestra, Ken Kiesler, Conductor (to be released on CD) Still Waiting for trombone choir, written for David Jackson and the U-M Trombone Choir, premiered at the Fort Meirs’ Army Base at the International Trombone Association North American Workshop (annual conference)

2014

“Tuba Sonata” chosen piece by the Falcone International Tuba Competition Various works for Carillon performed at U-California Berkeley, Missouri State and International Carillon Festival – Florida; Brussels, Belgium “Mas Fuerte” (percussion sextet) performed at Arkansas State, Western Colorado, (Perc. Ensemble) U-Illinois, Columbus State Universities, New Jersey Youth Symphony;BBC Radio and more

Performances of “Dark Matter” (6 original compositions with projected video) Bath (England) Royal Literary and Scientific Institute CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China Society of Electro-Acoustic Music Concert “Gallery Project” – performance at Detroit’s Historical Eastern Market (projected on an entire street block) “Unseen” – a gallery exhibition at the Ann Arbor Art Center “Mexicains Sans Frontier” – gallery space in Grand Rapids, MI

2013 Seventh Heaven Rag (Saxophone Sextet) performed by student group the “Moanin’ Frogs” at Kennedy Center and numerous other venues Rebellion (percussion, trb., pf,) performed by David Lockeridge in Newcastle, Australia; additional performances in Canada, Argentina and Japan Ulysses Grant – a Fluxkit Opera, (for voice and piano) cabaret version–performed by Stephen West, Michigan Chamber Players Jazz Piano Concert with Graphic Scores, performed by U-M Jazz Ensemble, Ellen Rowe, conducting; Stephen Rush, piano - performed at EdgeFest, Ann Arbor; Shapeshifter, Brooklyn, NY; Carr Center, Detroit; Taming of the Wild Ox, (graphic score), performed by members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (MusicFirst Ensemble) in Rochester, NY

Crystal Moon Cone (Electronic Music Trio), performances at Connecticut College, Dartmouth University, Renssenlaer Polytechnic, Spectrum Club in New York; additional performances in Chicago, Green Bay, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor

Directed Digital Music Ensemble in Telematic concerts; January (with Bogata, Colombia); February (with musicians from DME at Stanford University), and in April (with guests Elliott Sharp and Henry Threadgill, musicians at University of Illinois and RPI).

2012 Ulysses Grant – a Fluxkit Opera –performance by Digital Music Ensemble at UMMA in Ann Arbor, and at “Shapeshifter” (experimental venue in Brooklyn, NY) Ulysses Grant – a Fluxkit Opera, cabaret version–performed by 21st- Century Consort at the Smithsonian Museum Taming of the Wild Ox, performance by Adnan Marquez-Barbon at the NIME International Conference Kampen Tribut (sic), premiered by Frans Hagen in Kampen, Netherlands (650th anniversary of that carillon) Performed Gypsy Pond Music XIV (outdoor Sonic Installation), 7 days at the U-M Music School Pond, including internet performance at Stanford and in Bogata, Colombia

Naked Dance (jazz Trio) (original compositions) performing in Green Bay, Grand Rapids, Blue Lake Fine Arts Center at at The Stone in NYC

Crystal Moon Cone (Electronic Music Trio) performing in Oakland, San Francisco (Center for New Music), Irvine (Cal-Irvine) and Los Angeles (Klowden-Mann Gallery

2011 Tango Symphony for Full Orchestra, performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestera, Leonard Slatkin, conducting

Rebellion for Trb/Perc/Pf – performed by musicians from Seville at the Compositione Spectaculo, Madrid, Spain and by Matheus Ribelo in Sao Paolo, Brazil – and various student performances around the world (Korea, England and the U.S.)

Hunger for the Longing – for 8 dancers, 2 musicians, co-written with Jon Moniaci (premiered at Dance New Amsterdam and Triskelion, NYC and in Florence and Battanto, Italy)

2010 “Rebellion” for Trb/Perc/Pf. performed at Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain (members of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra); University of Illinois/Urbana Performed at the Bowery Poetry Club (NYC) with Aaron Siegel and Jon Moniaci (original works)

Directed Digital Music Ensemble John Cage’s Circus On Huckleberry Finn, evening length opera in a barn in Salem, MI

2009 Crystal Moon Cone (Electronic Music Trio), performances at Connecticut College, Dartmouth University, Renssenlaer Polytechnic, Spectrum Club in New York; additional performances in Chicago, Green Bay, Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor

“Four Ways” for Jazz Quartet, performed by Yuganaut and Roscoe Mitchell at the Edgefest, Ann Arbor, MI; performed at Krannert Museum, University of Illinois (Urbana/Champaign), performed at the “Channels Off” festival in Chicago at the Velvet Lounge (a significant Free-Jazz Venue). Chicago performance selected as “Readers Choice” by Chicago Jazz Journals.

Performed at the Stone and Douglass St. Collective with Aaron Siegel (drums) and Steve Swell (trombone) in New York City Performed with Thomas Buckner (singer) and Roscoe Mitchell (saxophonist) at Edgefest Festival, Kerrytown Concert House (reviewed in Downbeat Magazine and others)

Toured with “Listening Music from the Age of the Crystal Moon Cone” (playing toys, electronics, retro-keyboards). Performances at: various galleries in SOHO (NYC) Middlebury College, VT Underground Railroad in Woodstock, NY with Pauline Oliveros Dartmouth College, NH (New Music Festival)

Performances with Yuganaut (Mixed-Media Jazz Trio) in: Calling Arts Festival in Chicago Edgefest Festival in Ann Arbor Art Installation in Green Bay, WI Krannert Museum and Gallery, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana

2008 Premiered Two Candles Burning- a one-act opera for four singers and string quartet, performed at the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center

Performed with Roscoe Mitchell including his piece “8-8-88” (and many others) at the Victoriaville Jazz Festival in Montreal, Canada (excellent reviews in Downbeat and elsewhere)

Raincoat Rebellion-electronic composition for dancers, performed in San Francisco (4 nights) with Leyya Tawil and Dancers

Performed with Jazz Legend Henry Grimes at the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit Performances with Yuganaut (Mixed-Media Jazz Trio) in Canterbury House, Ann Arbor Small Theatre in Green Bay Harvest Art Gallery, in Chicago Halls/Walls, in Buffalo, NY Kit Kat Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota University of Wisconsin, Stevens-Point

2007 Fourth Crystal Moon Cone (electronic work)- Performed on Synthesizer at “The Kitchen” in New York, with Jennifer Allen and Dancers, with Chris Peck and John Moniaci (laptops)

2006 Fictions – an evening-length electronic work, premiered by Anita Cheng Dancers at the Joyce Theatre/Soho, in New York City

Sonata for Carillon, commissioned by Jeffrey Bossin of the Carillon Performed by Richard Giszczak at U-M, Ann Arbor Summerfest 06 Performed by Margo Halsted at Yale University, U-Cal-Riverside and in Kyoto, Japan

2005 Sextet for Chamber Ensemble, performed by Christopher Atzinger and others at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD

Stop Blaming Columbus, a 2-act opera for seven singers and Jazz ensemble, performed at the University of Michigan’s Duderstadt Center

Sonata for Carillon, commissioned by Jeffrey Bossin of the Carillon Am Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

Dante’s Inferno- “Video Sonata” for trombone, tuba, with projected video and electronics, performed at the Midwest Tuba/Euphonium Conference at Illinois State University, Michigan State University , and others, by Ava Ordman and Philip Sinder, and at Western Michigan University

2004 Rebellion for perc/pf/trb performed by Simon Durant at Royal College of Music (Great Britain)

Conducted Digital Music Ensemble performing “Heart of Tones” and “Sound Piece” and “Sound Fishes” by Pauline Oliveros at the Media Union, with special guest, Pauline Oliveros, and in Kingston, New York with Avante-Quartet “Quartex” and Pauline Oliveros

Rebellion and Inner Rebellion for perc/pf/trb performed at the Musikhochsule in Zurich, Switzerland by Stanley Clark; performances slated for opening and closing of the Bern Orchestra Chamber Music Series, Bern, Switzerland

Conducted Digital Music Ensemble giving the world premiere of “Circus On Einstein’s Dreams” by John Cage, an evening-length concert at the Media Union, University of Michigan, April Premiered sections of Philip Glass’ Northstar (for retro-/keyboards/voice/saxes) In Power Center with Dancers (four performances in February, 2003) Performed with Chris Peck and Jaime Fennelly and David Dorfman Dancers at Off-Off Broadway venue “The Kitchen” in New York (City), 10 performances, reviews in Village Voice and The New Yorker

BirthCry at the End of the World- “Video Sonata” for Søren Hermansson (Horn) and Michael Gould (percussion) premiered at SAMI (Swedish Art and Music Institute), Stockholm, Sweden, in November, 2003; performed at the Media Union;

Six Treatments for Laptop-Filtered Carillon, performed by Joseph Daniel at Baylor University, TX and University of Michigan and by Jeffrey Bossin of the Carillon am Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Tiergarten, Berlin

2003 Conducted Digital Music Ensemble performing the world premiere of “Circus On Einstein’s Dreams” by John Cage, an evening-length concert at the Media Union, University of Michigan, April Premiered Philip Glass’ Northstar (for retro-/keyboards/voice/saxes) in Power Center (Ann Arbor, Michigan)with Dancers (four performances in February, 2003) Water Blue for electronics, percussion, 3 dancers/actors, performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Congress

Rebellion for Trombone, Piano and Percussion performed in Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Netherlands

Six Treatments for Carillon-for Carillon with laptop filtering,performed by Jeffrey Bossin at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin-Tiergarten

Tuba Sonata , various performances by Philip Sinder at Michigan and Ohio Universities

GUEST LECTURES: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

“Composing for Dance and/or Electronics”, University of Connecticut

“Peacemaking in India and the U.S.” as the keynote speaker at the International Peace Conference at Mahajana College in Mysore, India, 2014

“Peacemaking through Meditation and Listening”, keynote address at the International Peace Festival, Mysore, India, 2013

“Workshop in Creativity” – University of Western Ontario

“Mommy, Where Do Ideas Come From?” (a talk about Creative Process) for the 1st TedxUofM Conference at the University of Michigan

“New Music” – DePaul University

“Interarts Improvisation”, University of California at Irvine

“Introduction to East/West Music”, Nada Brahma (classical music) Society, Mysore, India

“Introduction to the Music of the USA”, National University, San Deigo, CA

“Introduction to the Gita for Westerners; Introduction to Hinduism for Westerners” – Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement Centre, Mysore, India

“Multi-Media Improvisation and Composition” – William Paterson University, Newark, NJ

“New Music” – U-Cal, Santa Barbara, CA

“Teaching Creativity” – U-M Dearborn

“ Lecture on John Cage’s “4’33” “ at the Snowmass Conference (an Inter-Religious dialogue conference). (The members include those trained by the Dalai Lama, the head of the Shambala Center, two Imams from Baghdad, and 2 Hasidic Rabbis).

GUEST LECTURES: University of Michigan

“Dark Matter- Big Bang Theory and Music,” presented at the M-Cubed First Annual Event, Mendelssohn Theatre (featuring original music)

“Teaching Creative Process” at the Knight-Wallace Foundation

“Introduction into Musical Modernism” for Holly Hughes/Malcolm Tulips Performance Art Class

“The Importance of Interdisciplinarity” for the “Blueprints Literary Magazine” – University of Michigan

“Postmodern Opera: Ashley, Glass, Cage and Rush,” presented at the Institute of the Humanities as part of the Maverick’s Series

“Performance Art Outdoors” and “Slow Walk”, in the Arb and at the Chemistry Building, f for Mark Clague’s “Maverick’s Class”

“Dances of Compassion”, presented Dance/Movement improvisation class at the Cardiology Hospital

“Creativity” – TedX, University of Michigan (and elsewhere)

“Being ‘out-of-the-box’ When There is No Box” – Engineering 101 (over 250 students)

“Creativity and Sustainability” for the School of Bio-Med (U-M)

“Teaching Religion in the Classroom without Teaching Religion in the Classroom”, a lecture/demonstration at U-M for the Association of Religious Counselors (ARC)

“Stravinsky as a Free Radical”, for Research in Action, Dance Department, U-M