Independent Researcher

About

With my primary interest in the field of compositional and mathematical music theory, I have published articles in Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, and Music Theory Online (see the accompanying CV for a list of publications). My essay, “Transformational Etudes,” appears in the collection Music Theory and Mathematics, ed. Jack Douthett, Martha Hyde and Charles Smith, University of Rochester Press, 2008.  My essay "At the Edge of Creation: Elliott Carter's Sketches in the Library of Congress" will appear in Elliott Carter Studies, ed. Marguerite Boland and John Link, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012.

I have delivered papers at various conferences, including the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Music Theory. I have been a guest lecturer at the University of Maryland and the University of Iowa, and I am currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Mathematics and Music.  My professional memberships include The Society for Music Theory, The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, and The Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music.

I am recently retired as Senior Specialist for Contemporary Music in the Music Division of the Library of Congress where I planned and coordinated internet-, concert- and collections-related projects focused on American contemporary classical music.

As a violinist, I performed semi-professionally in various orchestras and chamber ensembles and taught privately for 45 years.  I studied violin with Ludwig Schmidt and Charles Treger, viola with William Preucil, and conducting with Henry Veld, Charles Gigante and James Dixon. I was a founding performing member of the former Washington Sinfonia and served as its program director for three years.

I have served on the boards of directors for Lorton (Virginia) Arts Foundation, Garth Newel Music Center, and Contemporary Music Forum/Verge Ensemble.