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Sean Friar CV October 2018 OMPOSER IANIST DUCATOR S EAN FRIAR C /P / E 2620 E GLENOAKS BLVD, GLENDALE, CA 91206 +1 (310) 795-4012 | [email protected] | www.seanfriar.com EDUCATION Princeton University 2007–2012 Ph.D. in Music Composition (2017). M.F.A. in Music Composition (2009). Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellow, Roger Sessions Fellow. Dissertation: Hybrid Music in Theory and Practice. Adviser: Dmitri Tymoczko. University of California, Los Angeles 2003–2007 B.A. Music, B.A. Psychology. Regents Scholar. Summa cum laude. 3.97 GPA. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music 2013-present Assistant Professor of Practice in Composition and Analysis 2017-present Director of Graduate Program in Theory and Analysis (beg. Fall 2019) Senior Lecturer of Composition 2015-2017 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Composition 2013-2015 COURSES TAUGHT (Grad=graduate course, UG=undergraduate course) MUCO 590/790: Directed Research (Grad) MUCO 536/636: Advanced Orchestration I and II (Grad) MUCO 592: Special Topics: Large-Scale Form (Grad) MUCO 574: Contemporary Approaches to the Analysis of Tonal Music (Grad) MUCO 573: 20th/21st-Century Counterpoint (Grad) MUCO 572: Special Topics in Analysis – Spectral Music (Grad) MUCO 572: Special Topics in Analysis – Genre in Contemporary Music (Grad) MUCO 537/637/737: Individual Instruction in Composition (Grad) MUCO 521: Individual Instruction in Graduate Composition for Non-Majors (Grad) MUCO 502: Post-Tonal Analysis (Grad) MUCO 434: Analytical Techniques (UG) MUCO 339: Orchestration Review (Grad) MUSC 371g: GENERAL EDUCATION: Genre in Contemporary Music (UG) MUCO 300: Theory Review (Grad) MUCO 236/336/436: Orchestration I, II, and III (UG) MUCO 137AB/237AB/337AB/437: Composition I, II, III, and IV (UG) SERVICE (U = Service to University, T = Service to Thornton School of Music) Director of the Graduate Program in Music Theory and Analysis (T) Fall 2019 Joint Academic Senate/Provost Committee on Teaching and Academic Programs (U) 2018-present Academic Senate RTPC Faculty Affairs Committee (U) 2018-present Thornton Curriculum Committee (T) 2015-present Search Committee member – Lecturers in Music Theory and Electronic Music (T) 2018 Thornton Merit Review Committee (RTPC Full-time Teaching Faculty) (T) 2018 Created Electronic Music Studio for Composition students (T) 2017-18 Faculty Advisor, Los Angeles Emerging Artists Festival (T) 2017-present Doctoral Academic Admission Exam Committee (T) 2016-present DMA Advisor – For students in Composition, Jazz, and Performance (T) 2015-present Composition Admissions – Undergrad/Graduate application review/interviews (T) 2015-present Sunset ChamberFest (Los Angeles, CA), Director of Composition Program 2014-present Summer program for composers aged 14-20. Students attend lessons and lectures and have works workshopped/premiered/recorded by professional musicians. Students have gone onto top programs including Harvard, USC, and Oberlin. University of California, Los Angeles, Lecturer in Composition 2012-2015 COURSES TAUGHT (Grad=graduate course, UG=undergraduate course) MUSIC 253: Special Topics: Spectral Music (Grad) MUSIC 124A: Scoring for Symphony Orchestra (UG) MUSIC 123ABC: Composition: Individual Instruction (UG) MUSIC 120ABC: Music Theory IV, V, VI. Year 2/2 of theory for Music majors. (UG) MUSIC 20ABC: Music Theory I, II, III. Year 1/2 of theory for Music majors. (UG) SERVICE Undergraduate and Graduate Composition Admissions Colburn School and Conservatory of Music, Lecturer 2014-2015 COURSES TAUGHT Adult Studies: Music Theory Princeton University, Preceptor in Music Theory 2008-2011 COURSES TAUGHT MUSIC 105, 106: Music Theory I, II – Assisting Dmitri Tymoczko. MUSIC 106: Music Theory II – Assisting Scott Burnham. Composition: Individual Instruction – Lessons undergraduates in composition. ADDITIONAL STUDIES, COURSES, AND FESTIVALS La Pietra Forum for New Music (Florence, Italy) – Study with Georg Friedrich Haas. 2012 GAUDEAMUS Muziekweek (Utrecht, Netherlands) – Invited composer. 2011 International Young Composers Meeting (Apeldoorn, Netherlands) – Study with Louis 2010 Andriessen, Richard Ayres, Martijn Padding, and Michael Smetanin. Aspen Music Festival: Individual Studies (Aspen, CO) – Study with George Tsontakis. 2010 Aspen Music Festival: Composition Master Class (Aspen, CO) – Study with Christopher 2009 Rouse and John Harbison. Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (North Adams, MA) – Study with David Lang, 2008 Julia Wolfe, and Michael Gordon. Bowdoin Music Festival (Brunswick, ME) – Study with Robert Beaser and Roberto Sierra. 2007 Yale School of Music Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Norfolk, CT) – Study with 2006 Martin Bresnick and Alejandro Viñao. RESIDENCIES AND GUEST TEACHING/LECTURES/MASTERCLASSES HEAR NOW Festival (Los Angeles, CA) – Featured composer. 2018 Sunset Chamber Fest (Los Angeles, CA) – Composition faculty. Lecture on my music. 2018 Face the Music, Kaufman Center (New York, NY) – Featured composer and coaching. 2018 Sunset Chamber Fest (Los Angeles, CA) – Composition faculty. Lecture on my music. 2017 University of Southern California – Lecture on my music. 2017 University of California, Los Angeles – Lecture on my music. 2017 Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY) – Guest composer. 2017 Open Space Festival of New Music (Greeley, CO) – Composer-in-residence. Lecture on 2016 my music and composition masterclass. Los Angeles Philharmonic Composer Fellowship Program (Los Angeles, CA) – 2016 Masterclass and composition lessons. Bennington Chamber Music Conference (Bennington, VT) – Composition faculty. 2016 Sunset Chamber Fest (Los Angeles, CA) – Composition faculty. Lecture on my music. 2016 Chapman University (Orange, CA) – Lecture on my music. 2015 Los Angeles Philharmonic Next on Grand – Lessons and masterclass. 2015 Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella – Preconcert panel discussion. 2015 Los Angeles Philharmonic Upbeat Live: The Symphony in the 21st Century – Lecture. 2015 Carlsbad Music Festival (Carlsbad, CA) – Composer-in-residence. 2015 Sunset Chamber Fest (Los Angeles, CA) – Composer-in-residence. 2014 HEAR NOW Festival (Los Angeles, CA) – Featured composer. 2014 Eureka Graduate Composers Conference (Santa Cruz, CA) – Keynote speaker. 2014 New World Symphony (Miami, FL) – Composer-in-residence. 2013 Cresc Biennale (Frankfurt, Germany) – Composer-in-residence. 2013 California State University, Long Beach – Lecture on my music. 2013 San Francisco Conservatory – Lecture on my music. 2013 University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) (x2) – Lecture on my music. 2013 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (Santa Cruz, CA) – Composer-in-residence. 2013 Composition masterclass and panel discussion with conducting workshop. Wild Shore Festival of New Music (Homer, AK) – Composer-in-residence. Masterclass. 2013 Present Music (Milwaukee, WI) – Composer-in-residence. Lecture on my music. 2013 Staten Island Middle School (Staten Island, NY) – Lecture of contemporary music. 2012 La Pietra Forum for New Music (Florence, Italy) – Lecture on my music. 2012 Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble (New York, NY) – Composer-in-residence. 2012-2013 Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy) – Featured composer. 2012 Music: Cognition, Technology, Society (Cornell University, NY) – Featured composer. 2012 Radialmusic at Berliner Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany) – Featured composer. 2012 Queens New Music Festival (New York, New York) – Featured composer. 2012 Nuova Consonanza (Rome, Italy) – Featured composer. 2011 Nuovi Spazi Musicali (Rome, Italy) – Featured composer. 2011 American Academy in Rome (Rome, Italy) – Rome Prize Fellow. Lecture on my music. 2011–2012 Roma Tre University (Rome, Italy) – Lecture on 20th century American music. 2011 Nuovi Spazi Musicali (Rome, Italy) – Featured composer. 2011 SONiC Festival: Sounds of a New Century (New York, NY) – Featured composer. 2011 GAUDEAMUS Muziekweek (Utrecht, Netherlands) – Invited composer. 2011 American Composers Orchestra: Playing it UNsafe (New York, NY) – Season-long 2010–2011 initiative supporting the creation of a “cutting-edge” new work for orchestra. New York Youth Symphony – Chamber music coaching. 2010 Copland House (Cortlandt Manor, NY) – Private residency at Aaron Copland’s estate. 2009–2010 American Composers Orchestra/Penn Presents New Music Lab (Philadelphia, PA) 2009 University of California, Los Angeles (x3) – Lecture on my music. 2007-2010 SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Grant for American Composers Orchestra. 2014 Fromm Music Foundation Commission (Harvard University) with NOW Ensemble. 2013 MetLife Creative Connections Grant (New Music USA) with Present Music 2013 Composer Assistance Grant (New Music USA) for Clunker Concerto. 2013 MetLife Creative Connections Grant (New Music USA) with Musical Chairs Ensemble. 2012 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Grant for Line C3 Percussion. 2012 Charles Ives Scholarship (The American Academy of Arts and Letters) 2012 Samuel Barber Rome Prize Fellowship (The American Academy in Rome) 2011 GAUDEAMUS Prize, Finalist for Velvet Hammer. 2011 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Velvet Hammer. 2011 Renee B. Fisher Composer Award (Renee B. Fisher Piano Competition) 2011 Harvey Gaul Composition Prize, Runner-up (Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble) 2011 Finale/Eighth Blackbird National Composition Contest, Honorable Mention 2011 First Music Award (New York Youth Symphony) 2010 Aaron Copland Award (Copland House Foundation) 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Little
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