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David SchoberAssistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition EducationPh.D., Music Theory and Composition, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2004Dissertation: Part I George Perle's Six New Etudes: Symmetry, Audibility, and the Rhetoric of Reconciliation, Part II Split Horizon: Concerto for Sextet and Orchestra; Principal advisors: Andrew Mead and William Bolcom; Additional study with Kevin Korsyn, Bright Sheng, Evan Chambers, and Susan Botti; Organ study with Marilyn Mason GPA: 7.985 / 8.000 Master of Arts in Composition, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1999Composition study with William Albright and Michael Daugherty; piano study with Logan Skelton; Thesis: leaping greenly spirits, commissioned and premiered by The Minnesota Orchestra GPA: 8.096 / 8.000 Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance and Composition, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1997Composition study with Param Vir and Randolph Coleman; piano study with Joseph Schwartz GPA: 3.95 / 4.00; Pi Kappa Lambda Korean Language Institute and Yonsei University International Division, Seoul, Jun-Dec 1995Intensive language study; Korean history, literature, and traditional arts St. Mary's University, Winona, Minnesota, 1989-1992Concentration in natural sciences, mathematics, and humanities GPA: 4.00 / 4.00 TeachingUniversity of Michigan School of Music, Ann ArborGraduate Student Instructor, Department of Music Theory, 1998-2002 Courses taught
Adjunct Lecturer, Summer Music Education master's program, 2000 and 2001 Courses taught
Commissions and HonorsFromm Foundation Commission, Harvard University, 2002Carnegie Hall premiere of Split Horizon: Concerto for Sextet and Orchestra by eighth blackbird and the American Composers Orchestra scheduled for Mar 2004 Carlos Surinach Commission, BMI Foundation (Taepoong), 2002Performances in Tokyo, Kobe, and Seoul by marimbist Makoto Nakura, Mar 2003; New York premiere at Merkin Concert Hall, Oct 2003; Helicon Records release due fall 2004 Naumburg Foundation commission (String Quartet), 2000New York premiere by Miró String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Mar 2001 Commission from violinist Gregory Fulkerson (Empty shells), 2000New York premiere at Merkin Concert Hall, Mar 2001 Aaron Copland Awards, 1999Residency at Copland House, Westchester County, N.Y., spring 2000 Wayne Peterson Composition Prize, San Francisco State University, 1999Performance by Earplay at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Apr 2000 Minnesota Orchestra commission (leaping greenly spirits), 1998Premiere performances conducted by Eiji Oue at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, Jan 1999; Public radio broadcasts nationwide, 1999-2000 Commission from Chicago-based ensemble eighth blackbird (Variations for Sextet), 1998More than 50 performances in tours throughout U.S. and Korea, 1998-2003; national broadcast on St. Paul Sunday, Jun 2000; Recording released on Cedille Records, 2003 (Thirteen Ways, CDR 90000 067) Performance of Variations for Sextet at Merkin Concert Hall, New York, Mar 2002by Music from Copland House, Michael Boriskin, director Herbert Elwell Memorial Composition Prize, Oberlin Conservatory, 1997ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, 1997Ernest Hatch Wilkins Prize (for academic achievement), Oberlin College, 1995BMI Student Composer Awards, 1994 and 1991Professional AffiliationsMichigan Music Theory Society Society of Composers, Inc. (University of Michigan chapter treasurer, 1998-2000) Pi Kappa Lambda Programs and FestivalsThe Landmark Forum, Jun 2002, and Landmark Advanced Course, Nov 2002 Personal development seminars Goethe-Institut: Intensive language study in Murnau, Germany, Aug 1999 Music99, University of Cincinnati, June 1999 Dartington International Summer School, Devon, England, Aug 1998 Composition study with Peter Sculthorpe Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Yale University Summer School, Jun-Jul 1998 Schoenberg Seminar, Mödling and Vienna, Austria, Jan 1995 Historical and analytical study with Richard Hoffmann Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, California, Jun-Aug 1993 Piano and chamber music study with Jerome Lowenthal Scholarships and FellowshipsRackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2004 James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow, 2002-03 University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship offer, University of Michigan, 2002-03 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2002 Graduate Fund Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1999-2002 Rackham Regents' Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1997-99 Oberlin College Scholarship and Conservatory Dean's Talent Award (full tuition), 1992-97 Theodore Presser Music Award (for study in Korea), 1995 Liberace Foundation Scholarship, 1992 National Merit Scholarship, 1992 Full-tuition fellowships at Dartington International Summer School (U.K.), 1998; Full-tuition scholarship from St. Mary's University and the State of Minnesota through Post-Secondary Enrollment Options program, 1989-92 Performance Activities"Messiaen's Le Banquet Céleste," invited analytical lecture/performance at 24th International Activities Organ and Church Music Institute, University of Michigan, Jun 2003 Premiere performance of Marilyn Shrude's Raining Glass for piano trio with violinist Maria Sampen and cellist Andrea Yun; Cincinnati, Nov 2002 Studio recording of Michael Daugherty's The High and the Mighty (for compact disc release) with piccoloist Nicole Esposito, Nov 2002 Premiere performances of Manly Romero's In Search of Eldorado (settings of Edgar Allan Poe) with soprano Jennifer Goltz; Ann Arbor, San Francisco, and New York, 2000-01 Soloist in premiere of Nag-Bushan Odekar's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Ann Arbor, 1998 Piano Faculty Prize in Accompanying, Oberlin Conservatory, 1997 Premieres of Oberlin faculty composer Param Vir's The Comfort of Angels for two pianos, with Matthew Quayle; Finney Chapel, Oberlin, and Almeida Theatre, London (U.K.), 1996 Finalist in Chicago Chopin Competition, 1995, and Oberlin Concerto Competition, 1996 Runner-up in Arthur Dann Piano Competition, Oberlin, 1995 LanguagesReading proficiency in German and French Conversational fluency in Korean; reading and writing proficiency with dictionary Basic knowledge of Spanish and Russian ReferencesA current list of professional references is available upon request.
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