Ph.D., Music: The University of
California at Berkeley, 1986. GPA: 3.844
--Dissertation: THE RECOGNITIONS for Orchestra, 1985
Ph.D. Diploma. Berkeley Transcript.
M.A., Music: The University of California at Berkeley, 1979
--Thesis: CONCERTO FOR HARPSICHORD, 1979
Master of Arts Diploma
B.Mus., Conservatory of Music, The University of the Pacific, 1976. GPA: 3.34
Bachelor of Music Diploma. UOP Transcript.
--Double Major in Theory/Composition and Music History
--Double Concentration in Piano and Guitar
--Also: Voice
Composition Studies with Andrew Imbrie, S.R.Beckler, Anthony Milner FRCM, Olly
Wilson,
Richard Felciano, Walter Winslow, Edwin Dugger, and John Thow
Master Composition Classes with Hans
Werner Henze, Oliver Knussen, Charles Wuorinen,
Bernard Rands, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, and Earle Brown
Sometime Composition Studies with Elliott Carter and Bernard Rands
Conducting Studies with Michael Senturia and James Dixon
Master Classes in Conducting
with Harold Farberman
Criticism Studies with Joseph
Kerman
Schenker Studies with Michael
Senturia
Anton Webern Studies with Walter Winslow
Counterpoint Studies with William Denny
Acoustics Studies with Richard Felciano
Voice and Opera Studies with George Buckbee
Participant, the Composer/Conductor
Program, Conductor's Guild Summer Institute,8/87
---University of South Carolina at Columbia
Participant, the Composer/Conductor Program, Conductor's Guild Summer Institute,
8/86
---The University of West Virginia
Participant in Vocal Performance, Internationales Judendfestspieltreffens
---Bayreuth, Germany. Attended
Richard Wagner Fest
Continuing Education (All Courses Taken for Credit, and Grade of "A" Received)
U.C. Extension: Norse Myth and Saga I (2006) Norse Myth and Saga II (2009) The Odyssey (2009)
Stanford Continuing Studies, Beginning Website Design, 2003; Dreamweaver 2008
Cortina Institute ("Famous Writer's School") Writing Course, 2002-2004
Private Greek and Sanskrit Studies with Paul Howard Brown, 1996-98
Language Skills
--Reading and Spoken:
----English and German
--Varying Degrees of Ability With:
----French and Italian
----Biblical Hebrew and Classical Greek
----Russian, Including Old Slavonic Script
----Sanskrit (SaMSKrTa)