Biographical Information

Education:

Berkshire Music Center (Tanglewood), Fellow

• Studies with Gunther Schuller

• Performance by Fellowship Ensemble

Boston University, M.A. Composition

• Special awards in Music Theory and Music Composition

• Pi Kappa Lambda Honorary Society

• Graduate teaching assistant in Electronic Music

• Studies with Theodore Antoniou, John Thow, David Del Tredici

• Performances by University ensembles

Berklee School of Music, B.M. Composition

• Graduated in 2 years, magna cum laude

• Studies with Rudi Martinus van Dijk, John Bavicchi

• Performances of both jazz and classical music

Musical Background

Board of Directors and archivist, Nova Chamber Music (Salt Lake City) 2019-

• As a member of the Nova community, I help to keep the organization operating smoothly. Nova has been giving concerts for over 45 years.

• I also utilize my audio background in support of the group. I recorded concerts in addition to restoring and mastering old recordings.

Founding member, Tricinium (1988-2002)

• Presented a concert series which included concerts at Boston's FirstNight series, as well as MIT, Brandeis and other venues.

Member of Composers in Red Sneakers (1982-1986)

• Presented a popular concert series in varied locations, including Castle Hill Festival, New,York's Symphony space, Music at the Federal Reserve, Harvard University and many other locations.

• Included a number of well-known composers in our concert series, including Donald Martino, John Harbison, Lyle Mays and other.

• Appearances on several Boston tlevision and radio stations

• Released a record album on Northeastern Records which was the pick of the week in the Village Voice

Artists' Foundation Fellowship, Oxfordshire England (1983)

• Developed a multidisciplinary program for an intensive two-week program targeted at high-school aged students

Member of ASCAP since 1980

Teaching

• Occasional seminars at UCLA, University of New Hampshire, etc

• Guitar instructor Brookline Music School, Brookline MA

• Instructor in Music Theory, Mercer University. One-semester program formpreparatory school students.

Professional Guitarist (1969-1975)

• Guitarist with traveling musical theater group.

• Extensive touring in Eastern US, playing popular music

Finalist, Massachusetts Council for the Arts Fellowship (1981?)

Performances

• Performances by Alea III, Arts in Society, Beacon Brass Quintet, Berkshire Music Center, Boston University Omnibus Series, Capital Brass, Castle Hill Festival, Composers in Red Sneakers, Contemporary Music Consortium of Salt Lake City, Jason Hardink, FirstNight of Boston, Longy Chorus and Orchestra, ntermezzo of Salt Lake City, Marimolin, Music at the Reserve, Newcomp, New England Philharmonic Orchestra (winner, 2003 call for scores), Park City Chamber Music Festival, Pro-Arte Orchestra of Boston, Pro Musicis. American Academy in Rome

• Dance music for choreographer Dorothy Massalski, Synapse Dance Theater.

• Film music on Arts and Entertainment Cable Network, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Orson Welles Theater in Cambridge, MC

• Music used as incidental music at Dorothy B. Williams Theater in New York.

Press

• Interviews on WGBH-TV, WBUR, WCRB

• Press coverage by Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Christian Science Monitor, Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo), Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New Yorker, Stars and Stripes, Village Voice, Deseret Morning News, Berkshire Eagle.

Technical Career

Although my formal training is in music, I have also had a lifelong interest in science and technology. Because of my experience in the MIT Computer Music Lab, as well as similar labs in the Boston area, I gravitated towards a career in engineering rather than teaching. The thriving technical environment of Boston during that time abounded with growth opportunities and I was able to make the most of them. In my first years of engineering, I participated in development of products used in medical imaging. I moved on to speech recognition and then spent time developing products that prepared documents for printing. All of this work was done for embedded processors meeting real-time constraints.

In a very satisfying part of my career, I was able to combine my knowledge of engineering and my knowledge of audio. I was principal engineer at Lexicon (a division of Harman at the time), one of the oldest and most respected names in audio. Over that time I wrote software for nearly every aspect of the Lexicon product portfolio. I also was a presenter at large Harman sales events and visited many studios over the years. The last several years were focused on DSP (signal processing). I ported many Lexicon algorithms to new platforms and designed many other algorithms. Lexicon has been consistently recognized for the high quality and utility of those algorithms. But there was room for improvement...

After leaving Lexicon, I founded my own company--Exponential Audio--in 2012. In the years since, I created and sold a new line of audio plugins. These became popular in music, broadcast and post-production. They were part of some of the largest films of this period as well as many Grammy nominees and winners. Exponential Audio became part of iZotope in late 2018. I retired in early October of 2020.

If you've ever seen a movie, a television program, or listened to a CD, you have heard audio processed through devices I've made and software I've written. All of that is in the past and I am enjoying the resumption of composition full time.

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