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conductor


Employment  
1999-present Artistic Director, New Music Ensemble, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
1993-present Artistic Director of the California Ensemble Parallèle: Professional Ensemble dedicated to the performance/recording of New Music and of obscure music from all periods.
1992-1994 Co-Artistic Director of OCTAGON, New Music Ensemble.
1988-present

Full Professor, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Director of Ensembles/Conductor.

Conductor of Commissioned Works and/or World Premieres
2003 Michèle Reverdy: Concerto pour orchestre (NME)
Alden Jenks: Sour Music (NME)
Dusan Bogdanovic: Games (Ensemble Parallèle)
Chan Hae-Lee: Back to the Future (Kochi Ensemble)
2002 Alexandra Vrebalov: Sextet (NME)
Martha Horst: Elegy (NME)
Cindy Cox: Untitled (NME)
2001 Eric Sawyer: Under the Sudden Blue (NME)
Carolyn Yarnell: Smiling Madame Beudet (NME)
Mario Davidovsky: Recit Andy (Ensemble Parallèle)
John Harbison: Chaconne (NME)
Wayne Peterson: Inscape (NME)
William O. Smith: Offanta (Ensemble Parallèle)
Hi Kyung Kim: Orange Pastel (Ensemble Parallèle)
Sung-Jae Lee: Dalha Dalha (Ensemble Parallèle)
Lou Harrison: Mass for percussion and chorus (UCSC & Ensemble Parallèle)
Lou Harrison: Aria from Opera Julias Cesar
Dante De Silva: T.I.M.G. (UCSC Orchestra)
David Conte: The Return of the Magi (NME)

2000

Michael Schroeder: In Praise of Mary (UCSC Chamber Singers)
Henry Cowell: Suite, Dance of Sports, Heroic Dance (Ensemble Parallèle)
Jorge Liderman: Guitar Concerto (NME)

1999 Chris Pratorius: By the Sea (world première) (UCSC Orchestra)
1994 Billy Child: In the light (Monterrey Jazz Festival Orchestra)
1992 Cope: Dedications (USCS Orchestra)

 

Conducting of American Premieres
2003 Gubaidulina: Descensio (NME)
2002 Chan-Hae Lee: To HwangSeong (Ensemble Parallèle)
2001 Ramon Lazkano: Eskaintza (NME)
  Lou Harrison: Easter Cantata (Ensemble Parallèle and UCSC Chamber Singers)
2000 Gismonti: Ritmos e dancas (NME)
1999 Dimitri Yanov-Yanovski: Lux Aeterna (NME)
  José Evangelista: O Bali (NME)
1998 Tailleferre: Concertino for Flute, Piano and Chamber Orchestra (Ensemble Parallèle)
  Tailleferre: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Ensemble Parallèle)
  Tailleferre: Partita for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Strings (Ensemble Parallèle)
1997 Henri Collet: Inviolata Maria, Missa Brevis in Pentecoste (UCSC Chamber Singers); Chants de Castilles
1995 Lou Harrison: Rapunzel (Ensemble Parallèle)
1994 Barati: Light of Darkness (UCSC Orchestra)
  Lou Harrison: Strict Songs, New Moon & Holly and Ivy (Ensemble Parallèle and UCSC Chamber Singers)
  Ellen Harrison: La Cité du Globe Captif (Octagon)
  Kevin Doe: Solstice Fragments (Octagon)
  Jonathan Santare: Divertimento (Octagon)
  Angela Jelliffe: The Chinese Teapot Teaches Patience (Octagon)
1993 Tailleferre: Cantate de Narcisse (UCSC Chamber Singers & Orchestra)
  Tailleferre: Images pour Huit Instruments (Ensemble Parallèle )
  Kevin Doe: Carzy Jay Blue (Octagon)
  Brian Banks: Forest Echoes (Octagon)
  Eric Sawyer: Columbine (Octagon)

 

Professional Participation
2003 Lucerne Academie, with Pierre Boulez (September).
2001 Attendance at the Gaudeamus Festival, Amsterdam (September)
2000 Participation in the New Music Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria (June)
Other repertoires conducted