Education
2003:  Ph.D. in Musicology, Stanford University
1996:  B.A. (with High Honors) in Music and Social Studies, Wesleyan University
1991:  ARCT in Piano Performance, Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto, Canada)

Teaching Experience
2004-present:  Assistant Professor of Music History, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Princeton, NJ
2002-2004:  Assistant Professor of Music History, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
2001:  Instructor of Piano, Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN
2000-2001:  Instructor of Music History, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN

Publications
“Music,” in James MacGregor Burns, George R. Goethals and Georgia J. Sorenson, The Encyclopedia of Leadership (Great Barrington, MA: Sage Reference, 2004).

Review of Daniel Goldmark and Yuval Taylor, ed., The Cartoon Music Book (Chicago: A Cappella Press, 2002), in The Journal of Film Music, Vol. 1, No. 2-3 (Fall 2002-Winter 2003).

Program Notes, Missoula Symphony Orchestra, Missoula, MT, 2002 – 2003 and 2003 – 2004 Seasons.

“Carl Nielsen” and “Romantic Music—Specialized Studies,” in Murray Steib, ed.  The Reader’s Guide to Music (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999).


Selected Musicology Presentations
“Experiencing ELP's Pictures at an Exhibition: Progressive Rock and Susan Sontag’s ‘New Sensibility’”
¨     International Association for the Study of Popular Music Biennial Conference, Rome, Italy, July 2005
 
“Recontextualizing Gavin Bryars’s Jesus’ Blood never failed me yet”
¨     Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, Jan. 2005

“Music as the ‘Benshi’ in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran”
¨     Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, London, UK, April 2005
¨     Film and History Biennial Conference: War in Film, Television and History, Dallas, TX, Nov. 2004
¨     Canadian University Music Society Conference, University of Lethbridge, AB, May 2004
 
“The Portsmouth Sinfonia Revisited: The Aesthetic and Social Implications of the ‘World’s Worst Orchestra’”
¨     Pacific Northwest Graduate Music Students’ Conference, University of Victoria, BC, Nov. 2001
 
“The Unwitting Imperialist: Tippett’s Use of the Blues in The Knot Garden”
¨     Opera Studies Workshop, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, May 2001
 
“Tippett and Popular Music”
¨     Spring Meeting, AMS Northern California Chapter, University of Nevada at Reno, NV, Apr. 2000
 
“A Rebel and an Heir: Max as the Grand Master of British Composition”
¨     “A Celebration of the Music of Peter Maxwell Davies,” St. Martin’s College, Lancaster, UK, Apr. 2000
 
“Sounds of Tomorrow: Music and the 1939 New York World’s Fair”
¨     Graduate Musicology Forum, Stanford University, CA, Nov. 1999
 
“National Hero or Self-Involved Zealot?  Robert Falcon Scott in Film and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia Antartica”
¨     “Vaughan Williams in a New Century,” British Library, London, UK, Nov. 1999


Current Projects
Book: “Third Stream, British Style: Intersections of Highbrow and Lowbrow in British Music, 1960 – 1975”
 
Article: “National Hero or Self-Involved Zealot?  Robert Falcon Scott in Film and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Sinfonia Antartica”
 
Article: “Music as the ‘Benshi’ in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran”
 
Article: “The Practice of Cutting in the Performance of 19^th-century Orchestral Repertory”
 
Article: “Sounds for the World of Tomorrow: Music and the 1939 New York World’s Fair”
 
Article: “Kung Fu Heroes and Their Music”


Professional Service Experience
Committee Member, North American British Music Studies Association Development Committee, Dec. 2004 – Nov. 2005
Textbook Reviewer for Publisher, World Music: A Global Journey, Routledge, Dec. 2004
Committee Member, American Musicological Society Committee on the Moderated Electronic Discussion List, Nov. 2004 – Nov. 2009
Secretary/Treasurer, Society for Ethnomusicology Northwest Chapter, Feb. 2004 – Feb. 2005
Textbook Reviewer for Publisher, Music: A World Tour, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Dec. 2003

Selected University Service Experience
Member of the Academic Standing, Undergraduate Research, and Minority Affairs Committees, Rider University, Princeton, NJ, Oct. 2004 – present
Coordinator of Music History and Library Liaison, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, Aug. 2002 – May 2004
Member of the Undergraduate Research Committee, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, Jan. 2003 – May 2004
Chair, Music Department Graduate Committee, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, Aug. 2002 – May 2004
Coordinator, Graduate Musicology Forum, Music Dept., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Aug. 1998 - June 1999
Coordinator, Noon Recital Series, Music Dept., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Jan. - June 1999

Conducting Experience
Director and Principal Conductor, University of Montana New Music Ensemble, Missoula, MT, Fall 2002 – May 2004
Staff Conductor, Minnesota State University Moorhead New Music Ensemble, Moorhead, MN, Spring 2001
Guest Assistant Conductor, McKeesport Symphony Orchestra, McKeesport, PA, Feb. - Mar. 2000  
Music Director, Pied Piper’s Concerts, Stanford, CA, Oct. 1996 - Feb. 1997
Conductor, Young Artists Program, Scotia Festival of Music, Halifax, NS, Canada, Summer 1995/1996
Assistant Conductor, Wesleyan Orchestra, Middletown, CT, Jan. - Dec.1994, Jan. - May 1996
Principal Conductor, Wesleyan Wind Ensemble, Middletown, CT, Oct. 1993 - Dec. 1994
Principal Conductor, Wesleyan University Chamber Choir, Middletown, CT, Jan. 1994 - May 1995