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R E S U M È West Virginia University: Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition - 1978 Boston University School of Fine and Applied Arts: Master of Music in Theory and Composition - 1968 University of Hartford - Hartt College of Music: Bachelor of Music in Piano - 1965 New England Conservatory of Music: Major in Piano - 1960-63 Additional graduate study at Boston University, the University of Hartford, Dartmouth College, Brooklyn College COMPOSITION FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES: Koninklijk Conservatorium (Institute of Sonology), The Hague, Netherlands, - July, 1988 Tyrone Guthrie Centre, County Monaghan, Ireland - February, 1984 Dansk Institut for Elektroakustik Musik (D.I.E.M.), Aarhus Denmark - May 1993 Instituut voor Psychoacustica en Elektronische Muziek (IPEM/BRT) Belgian National Radio, Gent, Belgium - January, 1984, and October, 1986 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia - August, 1980 and July, 1983 Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York - June 1980 Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, New York - June 1978, July 1979, August 1985, May 1988, June, 1992, March 1996 and April 2001. Edward MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire - August, 1971 REPRESENTATIVE PERFORMANCES AND BROADCASTS: CASTLE MUSIC (for Piano Four-hands, Percussion, Electronics and Pre-recorded Tape) performed by the composer at the Dartington Festival, South Devon, England - August, 1982, and at the International Electronic Music Plus Festival, Kansas City - October, 1985; selected as the winner of the Ohio Composer of the Year Composition Competition, and performed by the composer at the state convention of the Ohio Music Teachers Association (MTNA) at the University of Akron - June, 1986; New Music and Dance Festivals at Memphis State University, West Virginia University, Western Illinois University, Ball State University, S.U.N.Y. - Stony Brook; selected as a winner of the College Music Society Composition Competition and performed at the College Music Society Annual Meeting, Miami - October, 1986; selected for performance at the National Conference of the Electroacoustic Music Society (SEAMUS) at Dartmouth College - October, 1987; selected as a winner of the American Composers Alliance Recording Award and recorded for Opus One Records, (New York) on a disk commemorating the 50th anniversary of the American Composers Alliance. Recorded in June 1999 for the Equilibrium label on a CD entitled Distant Visions with pianists Brian Bevelander and Nicola Melville assisted by percussionist Michael Udow .
MUSIC OF THE SIGN (for Orchestra) commissioned and premiered by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra - January, 2004. Subsequently broadcast on public radio affiliate station WGTE - FM in Toledo, Ohio. SYNTHECISMS No. 2 (for Piano and Pre-recorded Tape) premiered by
British pianist Philip Mead at the 1991 International Computer Music
Conference,
Glasgow, Scotland. Tape part realized from material generated at the Koninklijk
Conservatorium (Institute for Sonology), The Hague, Netherlands, Brooklyn
College Center for Computer Music and at the Heidelberg College Electronic
Music Studio. Instrumental part composed during a residency at the Yaddo
Foundation, Saratoga Springs, New York and supported through a grant
from the Aigler Fund at Heidelberg College. Performed at the London
City Festival,
under sponsorship of City University, London, March 1991. Financial
support provided by Sonic Arts Network, London, for the best performance
in the final round of the British national Contemporary Piano Competition sponsored
by Cambridge University, November 1991. Additional performances
at University
of Utah, MOAB Center , Heidelberg College and the Institute
for Contemporary Art, London, January, 1992. SCI region Conference at M.I.T.
, October, 1997, SEAMUS National Convention at San Jose State
University,
March 1999.
Broadcast Radio NADEZHDA, (Radio Moscow) Moscow, Russia - October and November,
1992. Recorded on the OPUS ONE label at the Royal College of Music, London,
England in September, 1994 Philip Mead. Recorded at the University of Michigan
by Brian Bevelander in June, 1999 for the Equilibrium label. SYNTHECISMS NO. 4 (For Piano Four-hands, Orchestra and Pre-recorded Tape) premiered by the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra at the Musikhuset Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark as part of the 1994 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in September 1994. The premiere performance with Soren Hansen conducting the Aarhus Symphony featured British pianists Philip Mead and Stephen Gutman was recorded and broadcast by Danish Radio. Instrumental parts composed during a residency at the Yaddo Foundation, Saratoga Springs, New York in July 1992. Tape part realized at the Danish Institute for Electro/acoustic Music (DIEM) in Aarhus, Denmark in June, 1993. American premiere at the Society of Composers (SCI) conference, Ohio University, with conductor Kimo Furumoto and pianists Lawrence Dutt and Christina Perotti - October 20, 1995. Performed at the Society for Electro/acoustic Music (SEAMUS) National Conference at North Texas State University, March 9, 2000. Released on the Capstone label by the Society of Composers (SCI) in the spring of 1997. SYNTHECISMS NO. 6 (for Percussion Ensemble & Pre-recorded Tape) commissioned
and premiered by the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble. Performance
at the 2001 national conference of the Society for Electro/acoustic
Music (SEAMUS) at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge , Louisiana, March
1, 2001. Performance at the Heidelberg College New music Festival - April
16, 2003. Scheduled for performance at the 2004 International Computer
Music Conference (ICMC) at the University of Miami in November, 2004. Recorded
for the Equilibrium label in MacIntosh Theater, at the University of Michigan
- December, 1998. SOUNDPRISMS (for Piano, Electronics and Pre-recorded Tape) premiered by the composer at the London Almeida Festival - July 1984, and at the International Electronic Music Plus Festival at the University of Texas - March, 1985. SYNTHECISMS NO. 5 (for Piano and Pre-recorded Tape) American premiere by pianist Brian Bevelander at the SEAMUS National Conference at Birmingham Southern College, April 1996. Performances at Society of Composers (SCI) regional conferences at Indiana State University - Terre Haute, Indiana - November 1998, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, Wayne State University, Oberlin College Northern Arizona University, SUNY Geneseo. RHYTHMIC SONORITIES (for Pre-recorded Tape) realized at the Institute voor Psychoacustica en Elektronische Muziek (IPEM/BRT) Belgian National Radio Studios and programmed by the Electroacoustic Music Association of Great Britain at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London - May, 1984; performance at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland - August, 1988; included as part of the 1988 Points of Contact Choreography and Composition workshop at the South Bank Centre, London - August, 1988. DANCES AND INTERLUDES (for Electronic Tape) realized at the (IPEM/BRT) Belgian National Radio Studios during a composition residency in October, 1986, choreographed and performed by the University Dance Theater at S.U.N.Y.- Stony Brook, 9/17/87 and 12/7/88; included as part of the National Composer/ Choreography Course sponsored by the Dance Council of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland - August, 1988. Subsequent dance performances with choreography by Sondra Fraleigh and dancer Melanie Aceto at the Heidelberg College New music Festival and at SUNY Brockport. CONCERTO FOR PIANO, PERCUSSION AND TAPE performed by the composer at the International Electronic Music Plus Festival at Greenville, North Carolina - October, 1983; accepted by the British Broadcasting Corporation for Radio III broadcast - July, 1984. Radio program based on an original work MUSIC FOR TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION produced and broadcast by public radio affiliate station WGTE-FM, Toledo, Ohio; performance by the composer at the third annual Bowling Green State University New Music Festival subsequently broadcast in Belgium. FANTASY MUSIC (for Piano and Orchestra) performed by the composer with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in open rehearsal and performance at West Virginia University - November, 1976. SYMPHONY OF DISTANT VISIONS (for Orchestra & Pre-recorded Tape) recorded for the Equilibrium label by the Nova Ensemble at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas - January, 2001 SCORES AND RECORDINGS AVAILABLE FROM COMPOSER OR THROUGH: American Composers Alliance (http://www.composers.com), 170 West 74th St., New York, New York. COMPOSITION STUDY: Hugo Norden (Boston University) PIANO STUDY: Bela Nagy (Boston University) COURSES TAUGHT: Music 135-136, 235-236 Integrated Theory REPRESENTATIVE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Electro/acoustic Music lecture sponsored by RES MUSIC AMERICA and Meet the Composer at the Baltimore Museum of Art - January, 1991 Observations on Live Electronics article for Contemporary Music Revue 1991 Recipient of Aigler Fund Grants in May, 1987, May, 1989 and February 2002 Scholarship for Summer Study and Research at Brooklyn College - May, 1989 National Endowment for the Humanities Stipend - July, 1987 Recipient of Title III federal government stipends in May, 1975, and May, 1976 West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council Commission - July, 1974 Numerous residencies and broadcasts of original compositions on radio stations in the United States and Europe Fellowship at the Duquesne University Center for New Music August, 1991 Director of the Heidelberg College New Music Festival - 1988 to present Composition judge for the SEAMUS National Conference at the University of Texas, December, 1992 Commission by the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble - December, 1998 CD recording of Synthecisms No. 6 published by Equilibrium label 1999 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, 1997-98 Aigler Fund Grant for Individual work in Composition, May, 1998 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, 2000-2001 Distinguished Scholarship Research Award at Heidelberg College, February,
2000 Travel Grant awarded by Heidelberg College for travel and research in Ireland - 2002 Music of the Solstice (for piano) recorded for the Equilibrium label – June, 2002 Aigler Fund Grant to create a new symphonic work April, 2004 Commission by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra - April, 2003 Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio - Professor of Music (teaching Composition,
Music Theory and Piano) 1968-69, 1977 to present. Granted tenure as an
Associate Professor of Music - 1981, Professor of Music - 1989 Glenville State College, Glenville, West Virginia - Instructor of Music (teaching Piano and Music Theory and Music Appreciation) 1969-75; Granted tenure as an Assistant Professor of Music - 1974 PERSONAL DATA: Brian Edward Bevelander Office tel. 419-448-2082 Heidelberg College Fax number: 419 - 448- 2124 |
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