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Jared Redmond (+82) 10 - 2420 - 5751 JARED REDMOND Yeonhui-ro 16-gil 7-14, B2 COMPOSER, PIANIST, THEORIST Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea Visiting Professor of Music Composition [email protected] Hanyang University, Seoul jaredredmond.com EDUCATION: 2017 PhD, Brandeis University Music Composition and Theory Dissertation: “Cast a Butterfly in Iron: the Failed Transcendence of Scriabin’s Netherstar Sonata” (Committee: Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Eric Chafe, David Rakowski) 2017-18 Special Researcher, Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute 2016-17 Graduate Fellow (Korean Musicology), Academy of Korean Studies 2014 Participant, International Gugak Workshop, National Gugak Center 2011 MFA, Brandeis University Music Composition and Theory 2007 BA, University of California at Berkeley Music Piano/Composition concentrations (Honors, Eisner Prize for Excellence in the Creative Arts, Distinction in General Scholarship) TEACHING POSITIONS: 2018~ Visiting Professor of Music Composition - Hanyang University (Seoul) 2014-15 Instructor - Newbridge on the Charles (Dedham, MA) 2013-15 Teaching Fellow; Primary Instructor - Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) 2012-15 Instructor - Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Waltham, MA) 2010-12 Piano Lab Instructor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA) TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Hanyang University (Seoul, KR) Spr. 2018~ Visiting Professor of Composition (designed and sole-taught all courses) Spring 2019: Music and Culture: Russian Music from Glinka to Gubaidulina (MA/PhD seminar) Musicology seminar. Russian music history, especially from the early 19th century to present day. Emphasis on comparative analysis of works, and relationship of musical trends to political and social history. Contemporary Music Analysis (MA/PhD seminar) Composition/Theory seminar, for musicologists and composers. Covered recent trends in aesthetic and technique. In-depth analysis of music especially of the last few decades. Works included Haas, 2nd String Quartet; Carola Bauckholt, Atempause; Unsuk Chin, Violin Concerto; Hans Abrahamsen, Schnee; Isang Yun, Piri; Dutilleux, Ainsi la Nuit; Sciarrino, Come vengono prodotti gli incantesimi?; Rebecca Saunders, Blue and Gray, etc. 20th Century Music, 3rd semester (undergraduate course) Course for composition majors. Emphasis on techniques and trends of the mid- to late-20th century. “Post-serial” techniques (Boulez, Lutoslawski); Spectralism; Microtonality (Ben Johnston, Haas); Extended techniques (Lachenmann, Sciarrino, Crumb); Minimalism (LaMonte Young). Also included harmonic review of “late-tonal” harmony (Scriabin, Szymanowski, Debussy). Fall 2018: Harmony in Art Song (undergraduate lecture series) Four lectures on expressivity, text-painting, and harmonic innovation in “art song”, broadly defined. Music covered from William Byrd to Ligeti, with emphasis on 19th-early 20th-century music: Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Fauré, Duparc, Ravel, etc. 20th Century Music, 4th semester (undergraduate course) Course for composition majors. Emphasis on techniques and trends of the late-20th and early-21st centuries, including music by Clara Iannotta, Carolyn Chen, Beat Furrer, Julius Eastman, James Dillon, Catherine Lamb, Michelle Lou, Saariaho, etc. Summer 2018: Experimental Music Theatre Workshop (creative workshop, public) Hands-on workshop including discussion of works by Aperghis, Kagel, Michelle Lou, Stockhausen, and an intense session of analysis on Steven Kazuo Takasugi’s Sideshow. Culminating in group creative projects with a Korean traditional performer. Spring 2018: 20th-21st Century Orchestration Technique (MA/PhD course) Composition seminar. Emphasis on orchestration technique from Debussy to the present day. In-depth study of orchestral and large chamber ensemble works including Debussy, Nocturnes; Scriabin, Poem of Ecstasy; Lutoslawski, Mi-Parti; Ligeti, Atmospheres; Unsuk Chin, Akrostichon Wortspiel; Lachenmann, Tableau; Eric Wubbels, Katachi; Jonathan Harvey, Towards a Pure Land. Culmination in orchestration projects. Spring 2018~present: Composition Lessons Directing midterm and final composition projects for undergraduate composition majors. Supervise students with dual majors (“intercultural composition”): Korean traditional and Western music composition. Hanyang University (Seoul, KR) Artist in Residence, CREAMA (Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Media and Audio) Summer 2017: Composition Masterclass Several weeks of one-on-one lessons with six advanced undergraduate students. Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) 2013-15 Primary Instructor (designed and sole-taught all courses) The Danger of Music (undergraduate writing seminar) Writing seminar focusing on “listening analysis” of music from Sciarrino to Sunn 0))), and aesthetic/political arguments on music throughout history from Plato and classical China to Tipper Gore. (Fall 2014, Spring 2015) Theory and Musicianship Lab II, part 2 (undergraduate) Advanced musicianship skills: dictation, sight-singing, sight-reading. (Spring 2013) Theory and Musicianship Lab II, part 1 (undergraduate) Advanced musicianship skills: dictation, sight-singing, sight-reading. (Fall 2012) Teaching Fellow (co-taught) Instrumentation and Orchestration (undergraduate) Basic orchestration and instrumentation skills, focused on weekly projects. (Fall 2014) Introduction to World Musics (undergraduate) Survey of world musics, open to music and non-music majors. Awarded Distinguished Teaching Fellow Award. (Spring 2014) Exploring Western Music (undergraduate) Survey of Western classical music, open to music and non-music majors. (Fall 2013) Newbridge on the Charles, Dedham, Massachusetts 2014-15 Instructor (designed and sole-taught lecture series for adult students): The Musical Impressionists (Spring 2015) Six-lecture series on impressionism in visual art and music, focusing on major pieces. A Brief History of the String Quartet (Winter 2014-15) Six-lecture series on the development of the string quartet from Haydn on. Singing Satire, Playing Protest, Composing Critique (Summer 2014) Six-lecture series on politically-engaged and socially-critical classical music, including discussion of works from Haydn’s Farewell Symphony through the avant-garde. Brandeis Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Waltham, MA) 2012-15 Instructor (designed and sole-taught lecture series for adult students): Exploring Musical Spaces (Spring 2015) Six-lecture series on relationships between composition and architecture. Thomas Tallis; Franz Joseph Haydn, Iannis Xenakis, etc. Playing Protest in the Classical Tradition (Summer 2014) Six-lecture series on relationships between classical music and politics. Beethoven 9, early 20th century music and politics, the post-war avant-garde, etc. Music After the War (Summer 2013) Six-lecture series on World War II and the post-war avant-garde. Music: the Magical Force (Fall 2012) Six-lecture series on musical Romanticism, and links between Romanticism and Modernism: literature, aesthetics, philosophy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2010-12 Piano Lab Instructor (designed and sole-taught) Piano Lab (Fall 2010; Spring 2011; Fall 2011; Spring 2012) Basic harmony and keyboard skills for music majors and non-majors. ARTISTIC / ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS: 2017~ Artistic Director; Pianist, contemporary music ensemble GEORI 距離 (Seoul) Direct grant writing, rehearsal, and programming. In first year, managed a $14,000 business budget, producing three public concerts, commissioning six international composers, and managing rehearsal and workshop schedules. Subsequent performances throughout Korea and Japan. Currently in production of two commercial recordings (labels: Astral Industries, UK; Tone Glow, USA). 2016~ Pianist, free improvisation duo Beheaded (Seoul) 2013~ Pianist; Co-composer, experimental music ensemble Ehnahre (USA) 2013-14 Co-Director, New Music Brandeis Organized 7 concerts of undergraduate/graduate student music throughout the year, with a $12,000 total budget. Co-managed Talea ensemble residency and its $16,000 grant writing process. Managed rehearsal schedules, musician hiring, gear rentals, and programs, culminating in production of full-length chamber opera MFA project. 2010-12 Affiliated Artist - Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2005-07 President, U.C. Berkeley Undergraduate Composers Organized two concerts per year of undergraduate composers’ music, program preparation, rehearsal schedules for freelance and student composers. RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS: 2019 U.C. Davis - artist residency (Feb. 19-23, 2019) Residency with experimental ensemble Ehnahre. Directed undergraduate improvisation workshop, performed six new student compositions (undergrad/graduate), as well as full-length concert of original work. 2018 National Gugak Center commission: 3 new pieces for geomungo: for performer Sunny Lee (The Space Between Yeobaek 餘白, First Birds Cheot Sae 첫 새, Transcend Choweol 超越) 2018 New Music USA Grant, for Tongues of Angels (viola and piano) 2017 New Music USA Grant, for Loess (bass flute and piano) 2017 Seoul Youth Art Troupe (서울청년예술단) Grant, for founding ensemble GEORI 距離 2017 Finalist - Cortona Composition Prize, for Todesvogel 2016-17 Artist in Residence, Hanyang University CREAMA studio Work on my own creative projects in the studio; taught composition masterclass. 2016-17 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowship 2016 Individual Artist Grant, Asian Cultural Council for my theatrical work Black Flower Blossoming 2016 Max Kade Travel Grant, Brandeis
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