Résumé
Presentations and Publications
What Did Euripides’ Play Bacchae Sound Like? April 5, 2025, presentation at American Musicological Society Capital Chapter Spring 2025 Meeting at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
"Composing Music for Euripides’ BACCHAE:
ὉΔῸΣ ἘΞΕΥΡΈΣΕΩΣ or Path of Discovery,"
(M.M. Thesis, Peabody Institute, 2023)
Reviews of Children’s Books for Children’s Literature Database (1999‒2010)
“Adventure: An Essay,” January/February 2005 issue of The Pegasus Review
“To a Young Poet,” November/December 2003 issue of The Pegasus Review
“Miss Holloway,” September/October 2000 issue of The Pegasus Review
“Wanda the Worrywart,” February/March 2000 issue of PKA’s Advocate
“Musing on the Birth of Pegasus,” January/February 2000 issue of The Pegasus Review
“My Magic Carpet,” August/September 1999 issue of PKA’s Advocate
Pilgrimage: “A Feminine Equivalent of the Current Masculine Realism,” (Ph.D. Diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1986), UMI Dissertation Abstracts
Verified Greek, Latin, French, and German bibliographical references in The Antitheatrical Prejudice, book written by Jonas Barish, Ph.D. (University of California Press, 1978)
Honors and Awards
Peabody Scholarship (2021‒2023)
Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Endowed Scholarship (2023)
Barbara W. Pickus Memorial Scholarship (2023)
Golden Key International Honour Society Towson University (2019)
Phi Theta Kappa Harford Community College (2017)
High Honors Harford Community College (2017)
Dean’s List Towson University (2018‒2019; 1963‒1965)
Honor Society University of California at Berkeley (1967‒1970)
Memberships
American Musicological Society - Capital Chapter
National Association of Composers USA - Mid-Atlantic Chapter and Cascadia Chapter
Education
Peabody Institute (M.M., 2023) Musicology
Towson University (B.S., 2019) Music
Harford Community College (A.A., 2017) Music
University of California at Berkeley (B.A., 1970) (M.A., 1976) (Ph.D., 1986) English
Towson University (1963‒1965)
Experience
COMPOSITION PERFORMANCES
Musical Powder Box: Variations on Unknown Tune, Piano Composition Performed by Jeanette Winsor, September 14, 2024, at National Association of Composers/USA (NACUSA)/Mid-Atlantic Concert at Virginia Beach, VA
A Little Fanfare, Performed and Improvised by Jim McFalls and Darius Christian, Trombone Recital at TU, Fall 2019
Songs, The Lamb and The Tyger, Performed in Masterclass of Lori Laitman, Visiting Composer at TU, Spring 2018
Scenes from Musical Performed by Goat Hall Productions, San Francisco, Summer 2015
To Access Video: https://youtu.be/VdNWXye_nxM
Composer/Author: Music, Lyrics, and Book for Baltimore Crazy Quilt: A Musical (2010), Arranged (2012) by Keith Adams, M.M. in Composition at Towson University
TEACHING
Taught English as Graduate Student at University of California at Berkeley
SOLOIST
Recital: Harford Community College, 2017 Giordani, Caro mio ben
Recitals: 2013, 2014 Venez, Agréable Printemps; Debussy, Beau Soir; Scarlatti, Già Il Sole Dal Gange
Soloist: Towson University Choral Society, 2011 VIDA, Famine Song
CHORISTER
Choral Singer as Music Student (2015‒2019)
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Towson University World Music Ensemble
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Towson University Women’s Chamber Singers
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Harford Choral Society
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Harford Community College A Cappella Chorus
Shepherdess Choral Singer: Riverside Stage, 2013 Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors
Paid Choir Singer: Trinity Episcopal Church, Easter and Christmas, 2012
Choral Singer Outside of Music Programs (2005–2019)
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Berkshire Choral International
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Baltimore Choral Arts Society
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Bach Concert Series Choir
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Towson University Choral Society
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Towson United Methodist Church
Skills
LANGUAGES
Italian, French, Latin, Ancient Greek
TRAINING
Voice, Lyric Writing, Music Composition
Carol E.R. Collins
