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, Yerevan, 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 New York 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, Colorado 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