2003-present

Assistant Professor of Music at University of California, Santa Cruz

Instrumental Counterpoint, Advanced Tonal Analysis, 20th-c. Theory and Practice, Composition, Music Perception, Information Studies, US Popular Cultures.

Affiliated with Digital Arts / New Media and American Studies

2002

Lecturer in Music Theory, Music Department, UC Riverside

Lead Lecturer in Freshman Core Writing: Thurgood Marshall College (UC San Diego): National Identity and Popular Culture.

1999

Researcher/Artist-in-residence (Perception Laboratory), Institute de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Associate Instructor, Music Department, UCSD: Seminar in Composition

2001

Ph.D. in Music, University of California, San Diego. Dissertation Committee: Roger Reynolds, Gerald Balzano, Harvey Sollberger, Michael Davidson

1995

Master of Music, University of Washington. Thesis Committee Chair:  John Rahn

1993

Bachelor of Arts (Music), Willamette University (Salem, OR). Thesis Advisor John Peel

2009

2008

2007

2005

2004

Faculty Senate Special Research Grant recipient

Excellence in Teaching (Official Nominee); Arts Research Initiative Grantee, UC Santa Cruz

Arts Research Initiative Major Project Grantee, UC Santa Cruz

Arts Research Initiative Grantee; Faculty Senate COR Research Grantee, UC Santa Cruz

Faculty Senate COR Research Grantee, UC Santa Cruz

2001

First Prize, British and International Bass Festival/International Bass Society, London, England: Detáler (contrabass and chamber orchestra)

2000

Center for the Humanities Dissertation Fellow, UC San Diego

Featured Young Composer, 25th Anniversary Festival of New Music, State University of New York, Buffalo

1999

Visiting Artist Grantee, French Ministry of Culture/Centre Georges Pompidou

1998

Robert Erickson Prize for Excellence in Research (UC San Diego)

1993

Key to the University Outstanding service to Willamette University