Paul Attinello

Curriculum Vitae


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Education
  • Ph.D. in Music (Systematic Musicology),
    University of California, Los Angeles, August 1997
    Dissertation: The interpretation of chaos: a critical analysis of meaning in European avant-garde vocal music 1958-68. An aesthetic/cultural analysis of works by composers including Berio, Bussotti, Kagel, Ligeti, Schnebel, and Stockhausen. Committee included Susan McClary, Roger Savage, Roger Kendall and Vincent Pecora.
  • Master of Arts in Music (Systematic Musicology),
    University of California, Los Angeles, June 1991.
    Thesis: The strategy of theory, or Through the looking-glass: rationalism, irrationalism and domination in music of the twentieth century. Committee included William Hutchinson, Sue DeVale, Roger Kendall, Vincent Pecora.
  • Bachelor of Arts in Music, June 1977, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
  • C. G. Jung-Institut Zürich – Further Education Program, Summer 2011, Summer 2010; Winter Intensive Study Program, Winter 2009. Lectures, seminars, workshops.
  • Hochschule der Künste, Berlin – dissertation research, studies in musicology, 1994. Additional seminars at the Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität, Berlin.
  • Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany – German language studies, August-September 1993.
  • American University, Washington, D.C. – studies in composition, orchestral and chamber performance; performed with National Youth Orchestra at Wolf Trap Farm Park, 1974.
  • Private training in voice with Timothy Mussard (UCLA), Kari Windingstad (UCLA), Calvin Remsberg (Washington, D.C.), Maeve Udell (San Francisco), Robert Grayn(San Francisco).
  • Private training in piano, woodwinds.

Teaching Experience

  • Newcastle University
    Senior Lecturer in Music
    since August 2008

    Lecturer in Music
    September 2002 to July 2008

    Major 1st Year
    Understanding Modern & Postmodern Musics
    Music in Contemporary Culture 1

    Major 2nd & 3rd Year
    European High Modernisms (co-taught)
    Music and AIDS
    Musicals
    Parody in Music
    Performance Art / Performance Theory
    The Popular Voice
    Opera (co-taught)

    Major Finalist
    Music & Cultural Theory
    Specialist Study: Dissertation (Leader & Adv.)
    Specialist Study: Project (Leader & Advisor)
    Music Analysis & Interpretation (co-taught)

    Postgraduate
    Research Training for the Masters
    Cultural Theory & Music
    Debates in the Philosophy of Theory & Music
    Studying Popular Music (co-taught)
    Faculty-wide PG: Text, Image, Sound – Analysis
    Additional lectures contributed to various academic and performance courses.

    Postgraduate Advising:
    Supervisor, Ph.D. – Johann Hasler (October 2010); Charles Bramley; Eric Doughney; Ann-Marie Hanlon; Ryan Hepburn; Second Supervisor, Ph.D. – Vera Brozzoni; Maria Christophi; Kenneth MacLean; Patricia Moran; Merrie Snell; Michelle Waggener
    Supervisor, M.A. – Adam Parkinson, Brendan Ratliff, Merrie Snell, Lee Wyatt, September 2007
    Ann-Marie Hanlon, Jennifer Johnson, September 2006
    Supervisor, M.Mus. – Teresa Magnowska, Luis Ortega Sanchez, Fall 2008
    Supervisor, M.Litt. – Eric Doughney, Jenny McAlone, Fall 2010
    Dissertation Supervisor, M.Mus. – William Schrimshaw, Simon Quinlan, September 2006; Marco Pennetta, September 2009
    Internal Examiner, Ph.D. – Iain Stannard, November 2003; Paul Fleet, July 2007; Rachel Segal, July 2010
    External Examiner, Ph.D., Université Paris-Est – Joyce Shintani, April 2008
    External Examiner, Ph.D., Dartington College of Arts – Michael McInerney, January 2007
    External Examiner, Ph.D., University of Adelaide, Australia – Andrew Williams, October 2004
    External Examiner, M.A., Queensland University, Australia – Gavin Carfoot, January 2005
    External Examiner, M. Phil., University College Cork, Ireland – Eva McMullan, January 2004

  • University of Hong Kong
    Assistant Professor in Music
    September 1997 to June 2001

    Lecturer in Music
    March to August 1997

    Non-Majors
    Understanding Music (appreciation)
    Music in Society
    Major 1st & 2nd Year
    Introduction to Music in Western Culture
    Music History (Western)
    Western Music History 2
    Music Analysis: Western Art Music Traditions
    Harmony & Structure of Music

    Major 3rd Year
    Musical Scholarship
    Senior Seminar (Music since 1945)
    Senior Choir (directed)

    Major & Non-major Undergraduate
    American Music (co-taught)
    Love, Sex & Death in Music of the Modern World (co-taught)
    Postgraduate Seminar (Alternate Methodologies)

    Guest lectures for HKU courses:
    Music – Performance 1 & 2; Postgraduate Reading Course
    American Studies – Arts in America; Foundations in American Culture; The Road in American Culture;
    American Youth Cultures; Asia on America’s Screen
    Comparative Literature – Digital Culture & New Media Technologies

    Postgraduate Advising and Committees:
    Advisor, M. Phil. – John von Seggern, ‘Internet & MP3 Music,’ December 2001
    Advisor, M. Phil. – Rawin Panyaniti, ‘Bartók as Ethnomusicologist and Composer,’ June 1999
    Co-Advisor, M. Phil. – Anthony Ho, ‘Highland Bagpipe Music as Colonialism in Hong Kong,’ June 2001
    Internal Examiner, Ph.D., Oral Examination Committee – Brian Thompson, November 2000
    Internal Examiner, M. Phil., Oral Examination Committee – Raymond Mok, April 2000
    Internal Examiner, M. Phil., Oral Examination Committee – Rawin Panyaniti, May 1999
    Additional Examiner, M. Phil., Oral Examination Committee – Chan Tong Ti Trudy, November 1998
    Chair, M. Phil., Oral Examination Committee – Chan Tracy, October 1999

    Other teaching activities:
    Extensive involvement in curriculum reform, including proposing courses, revision and modification of curriculum, and tracking required courses; performance coaching; class performances.

  • University of California, Los Angeles
    Visiting Assistant Professor
    September to December 2000
    Taught ‘Music & AIDS,’ undergraduate seminar.

  • Teaching Assistant
    January to March 1992
    Assisted lecturer of seminar in musical aesthetics.

  • Teaching Associate
    September 1986 to March 1987
    Lectured for introductory course in Western music history and theory for World Arts majors.

    • Guest Lecturer
    University of Sunderland, ‘Presentation of 20th & 21st Century Musics’, December 2005
    University College Cork, Dept. of Music, ‘Performance Theory’ & composers seminar, February 2004
    Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, November 200(pre-concert lecture)
    University of Texas at Austin, School of Music, Music Leadership Program, October 2003
    University of Sydney, Department of Music: Composition Seminar, May 2002
    University of Western Sydney, Department of Music: Research Methods Seminar, May 2002
    Adelaide University, School of Music, ‘Music, Media and Contemporary Society,’ May 2002
    Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, School of Dance, Department of Musical Theater, May, October 1999; March, April 2000
    Hong Kong Urban Services Department, Training School, November 1998, December 1999, May 2000
    The River School, Sebastian, Florida, December 1992, May 2000
    City College of San Francisco, March 1996 and October 1996
    San Jose State University, San Jose, April 1995

    Additional teaching experience
    Private teaching and coaching in vocal technique
    Corporate teaching of Macintosh software and maintenance

Publications – Musicology
  • Books in Progress
    Gerhard Stäbler: Graphic Scores, commissioning editor, translator and writer; to be published by Pfau Verlag in
    2011 [in progress].

    Sex vs. Death: Music about AIDS. Monograph interpreting various genres of music and cultural trends, written
    in response to the health crisis; under consideration by University of California Press [in progress].

  • Articles
    ‘Assassin in a Three-Piece Suit: Slow Fire, Minimalism, and the Eighties’, in Hit the Road, Jack: Essays in the
    Culture of the American Road    , anthology (edited by Gordon Slethaug & Stacilee Ford) to be published by
    McGill University Press in 2011 [in press].

    ‘The Integrity of Musical Discourse: Schnebel and a Connected Universe’, in Schnebel 80, to be published by
    Universität der Künste Berlin in 2011 [in progress].

    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’, in Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship (edited by
    Patricia Zhall), to be published by Oxford University Press in 2012 [in progress].

    ‘Being Exhibit A: Teaching AIDS & Music in the University Classroom’, in Positive Response: Popular Musicians
    & the Reaction to HIV/AIDS     (ed. by Michael Drewett & Michael Jones), to be published in 2012 [in press]

    ‘Against History: Defining, & Defending, Systematic Musicologies’, in Filigrane: Musique, esthétique, sciences,
    société    , no. 11 (Summer 2010): ‘New Musicology, Perspectives critiques’ (ed. by Makis Solomos), pp. 25-36.

    ‘Rock, Television, Paper, Musicals, Scissors: Buffy, The Simpsons, and Parody’, in Music, Sound and Silence in
    Buffy the Vampire Slayer     (edited by Paul Attinello, Janet Halfyard & Vanessa Knights), Ashgate, 2010.

    ‘The Universe Will Tell You What It Needs: Being, Time, Sondheim’, in Musicological Identities: Essays in Honor
    of Susan McClary     (ed. by Steven Baur, Raymond Knapp & Jacqueline Warwick), Ashgate, 2008, pp. 77-91.

    ‘Postmodern or modern: a different approach to Darmstadt’ in Other Darmstadts (edited by Paul Attinello,
    Christopher Fox & Martin Iddon), Contemporary Music Review vol. 26 no. 1 (February 2007) (monograph
    series by Taylor & Francis), pp. 25-37.

    ‘Dialectics of Serialism: Abstraction and Deconstruction in Schnebel’s für stimmen (… missa est)’ in Other
    Darmstadts     (edited by Paul Attinello, Christopher Fox & Martin Iddon), Contemporary Music Review vol. 26
    no. 1 (February 2007) (monograph series by Taylor & Francis), pp. 39-52.

    ‘Gay Darmstadt: Flamboyance and Rigor at the Summer Courses for New Music’ (co-author with David
    Osmond-Smith) in Other Darmstadts (ed. Paul Attinello, Christopher Fox & Martin Iddon), Contemporary
    Music Review     vol. 26 no. 1 (February 2007) (monograph series by Taylor & Francis), pp. 105-14.

    ‘Fever / Fragile / Fatigue: Music, AIDS, Present, and…’, in Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music (edited
    by Neil Lerner and Joseph Straus), Routledge, 2006, pp. 13-22.

    ‘Closeness and Distance: Songs about AIDS’, in Queering the Popular Pitch (edited by Sheila Whiteley and
    Jennifer Rycenga), Routledge, 2006, pp. 221-31.

    ‘Authority and freedom: Toward a sociology of the gay choruses.’ In: Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and
    Lesbian Musicology    , edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood and Gary Thomas. New York: Routledge, 1994,
    pp. 315-346. Reprinted in second edition, 2006.

    ‘Hieroglyph, gesture, sign, meaning: Analyzing Bussotti’s Pièces de chair II’ in Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology XII: Perspectives in Systematic Musicology (edited by Roger Kendall and Roger Savage). University of California, 2005, pp. 219-27.

    ‘Passion/Mirrors (A Passion for the Violent Ineffable: Modernist Music and the Angel / In the Hall of Mirrors)’ in Beyond Structural Listening: Postmodern Modes of Hearing (edited by Andrew Dell’Antonio).Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004, pp. 154-72.

    ‘Imploding the System: Kagel and the Deconstruction of Modernism’ in Postmodern Music / Postmodern Thought (edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner)New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 263-85.

    ‘Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Conservatives: Longing for Utopia.’ Journal of Musicological Research, vol. 15, no. 1 (1995), pp. 25-53.

    ‘Performance and/or Shame: A Mosaic of Gay (and Other) Perceptions.’ repercussions, vol. 4, no. 2 (Fall 1995), pp. 97-130.

    ‘A Letter from Darmstadt.’ repercussions, vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring 1995), pp. 85-101.
    Reprinted in Crosscurrents and Counterpoints: Offerings in Honor of Bengt Hambræus at 70, edited by Per
    Broman, Nora Engebretsen & Bo Alphonce. Göteborg, Sweden: University of Göteborg, 1998.

    ‘Geroglifico, gesto, segno, significato: analisi di Pièces de chair II de Sylvano Bussotti,’ translated by Roberto
    Favaro. Musica/Realtà, no. 46 (March 1995), pp. 111-121.

    ‘Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Konservative, oder Die Sehnsucht nach der Utopie,’ translated by Heinz-Klaus
    Metzger. Palestrina zwischen Démontage und Rettung: Musik-Konzepte no. 86 (October 1994), pp. 60-83.

    ‘Hearing Stäbler from a continent away: politics and silence in the song cycles.’ In: Angefügt, nahtlos, ans Heute:
    Zur Arbeit des Komponisten Gerhard Stäbler – Standpunkte, Analysen, Perspektiven    , edited by Johannes
    Bultmann and Hanns-Werner Heister. Hofheim, Germany: Wolke Verlag, 1994, pp. 169-187.

    ‘Signifying chaos: Towards a semiotic analysis of Sylvano Bussotti’s Siciliano.’ repercussions, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall
    1992), pp. 84-110.

  • Editing
    Music, Sound and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, commissioning co-editor and writer with Janet Halfyard &
    Vanessa Knights, Ashgate, 2010.

    Other Darmstadts: The Transgressive Avant-Garde, commissioning co-editor and writer with Christopher Fox &
    Martin Iddon. Contemporary Music Review (monograph series, Taylor & Francis), vol. 26 no. 1 (Feb. 2007).

    Associate Editor & Member of Editorial Board, 2001-, Twentieth Century Music, Cambridge University Press.
    Member of Editorial Board, 2006-, Music and Politics web journal
    (http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/musicandpolitics/).

    Member of Editorial Collective, 2006-, Radical Musicology web journal (http://www.radical-
    musicology.org.uk/).

    Founding Co-editor, 2007-, Bifrons Creativity, web journal (http://www.bifrons.org.uk/).

    GLSG Newsletter. Co-editor, co-founder and writer for biannual newsletter of the Gay & Lesbian Studies
    Group of the American Musicological Society, 1990-93; produced vol. 1, nos. 1-3, 1991; vol. 2, nos. 1-2,
    1992; vol. 3, no. 1, 1993.

  • Brief Articles, Reviews
    Entries on Amirkhanian, Childs, Hassell, Kagel, Schnebel, Shere and Stäbler for the New Grove Dictionary of
    Music and Musicians    , seventh edition (print & Internet), Macmillan, 2000; Grove Dictionary of American
    Music    , 2002. Revisions of Amirkhanian, Childs, Hassell, and Shere for revised edition of Grove Dictionary
    of American Music     (scheduled for 2011).

    ‘Time, Work and Chronic Illness’ in MTO: Music Theory Online, vol. 15 nos. 3/4 (August 2009),
    …/toc.15.3.html

    David Tudor – Bandoneon! (a combine) [DVD]. Assisted with information for Nine Evenings DVD series. New
    York: Experiments in Art & Techology & ARTPIX, 2009.
    ‘chemical bodies’ (Fifth Column) in Radical Musicology (http://www.radical-
    musicology.org.uk/2007/Attinello.htm), May 2008.

    Review of Mr McFall’s Chamber concert, June 9, 2006, on Newcastle University Popular Music Research
    Group website, http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/POP/news.htm; on Vamos Festival website,
    http://www.vamosfestival.com/about_mcfall.php.

    ‘Möglichkeiten des Zeichens / The Possible Sign’, introduction to SoundVisions (edited by Torsten Mueller,
    Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler). Saarbrücken: PFAU-Verlag, 2005, pp. 12-19.

    Review of Iva Bittová’s Elida (CD), on Opera Today website, September 2005,
    http://www.operatoday.com/content/2005/09/bittova_elida.php.

    ‘Lines that Go Outside the Boxes: Mauricio Kagel’ for Cut and Splice Festival, presented by Sonic Arts
    Network and BBC 3, on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/acustica2.shtml, May 2005.

    Biography for Mauricio Kagel: Werkverzeichnis, brochure edited by Joyce Shintani for Universal Edition,
    Vienna, January 2000. Reprinted in edited version by Cut and Splice Festival, presented by Sonic Arts
    Network and BBC 3, on http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/cutandsplice/kagel.shtml, May 2005.

    Entries on Bussotti, Henze, Del Tredici, Susa, Choruses & Bands, and Music & AIDS for http://www.glbtq.com, an
    online encyclopedia of gay & lesbian culture (edited by Claude Summers), 2003. Reprinted in The Queer
    Encyclopedia of Music, Dance, and Musical Theater    , Cleis Press, 2004.

    ‘About Philip Brett.’ GLSG Newsletter, Gay & Lesbian Studies Group of the American Musicological Society,
    vol. 14 no. 1 (Spring 2004), pp. 14-15.

    ‘Six-Part Counterpoints’ [co-contributor]; British Postgraduate Musicology, http://www.bpmonline.org.uk, February
    2004.

    Entry on Choruses & Bands, Musicology & Music Studies for Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
    Transgendered History in America    , Scribner’s, 2004.

    ‘Music and AIDS: Some Interesting Works.’ GLSG Newsletter, Gay & Lesbian Studies Group of the American
    Musicological Society    , vol. 10 no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 4-6.

    Entries on Bussotti, Davies, Henze, Music and Musicians 1: Classical Music, Sims, Sylvester for Gay Histories
    and Cultures: An Encyclopedia     (edited by George Haggerty), New York & London: Garland Press, 2000.

    Entry on Notation: 20th Century for Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory and CriticismM (edited by Murray
    Steib), Routledge, 1999.

    Review of Mauricio Kagel scores, Norden, Westen, Opus 1991, Passé composé, Interview avec D. in Notes, vol. 56
    no. 2 (December 1999), pp. 478-81.

    Review of Karlheinz Stockhausen score, Punkte für Orchester (1952/62): Korrekturen bis 1993 in Notes, vol. 55 no.
    4 (June 1999), pp. 1014-16.

    Review of Isang Yun scores, Kammersinfonie II; Konzert für Oboe und Orchester; Quartett für Horn, Trompete,
    Posaune & Klavier; Trio für Klarinette, Fagott und Horn     in Notes, vol. 54 no. 3 (March 1998), pp. 779-81.

    Review of Mauricio Kagel scores,…, den 24. xii. 1931: verstümmelte Nachrichten für Bariton und Instrumente and
    Camera oscura: chromatisches Spiel für Lichtquellen in Notes, vol. 53 no. 4 (June 1997), pp. 1307-9.

    ‘Out in Academia.’ GLSG Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2 (October 1995), pp. 18-20.

    Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, eighth edition. Research and writing of 167 dictionary entries,
    particularly contemporary composers and performers and ethnomusicologists, for Nicolas Slonimsky.
    New York: Schirmer/Macmillan, 1992.

    The Orchestra: The Instruments Revealed – Featuring Benjamin Britten, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.
    Contributor to multi-leveled electronic text for CD-ROM. Burbank, California: Warner New Media, 1991.

    New Music America Catalogue. Biographical/descriptive catalogue of 130 contemporary composers and
    performers for New Music America ‘85/Los Angeles. High Performance, vol. 8 no. 3 (issue 31), 1985.

  • Journalism
    ‘Delicately perfect: The Arditti String Quartet,’ South China Morning Post, March 12, 2000, p. 12.

    ‘A shocker, but fun: Shockheaded Peter: A Junk Opera,’ South China Morning Post, February 27, 2000, p. 12.

    ‘Side by Side by Sondheim, Ritz-Carlton Hotel.’ South China Morning Post, September 24, 1999, p. 27.

    ‘Hamburg New Music Ensemble, City Hall Theatre.’ South China Morning Post, September 15, 1999, p. 25.

    ‘Kremerata Baltica, City Hall Concert Hall.’ South China Morning Post, February 18, 1999, p. 16.

    ‘Novel opera shows prove successful.’ South China Morning Post, February 14, 1999, p. 10.

    ‘National Symphony Orchestra, Cultural Centre.’ South China Morning Post, February 3, 1999, p. 18.

    ‘Kirov Orchestra and Chorus, Mahler Symphony no. 2.’ South China Morning Post, January 28, 1999, p. 18.

    ‘Magnificent malevolence: Pique-Dame by Kirov Opera.’ South China Morning Post, January 24, 1999, p. 10.

    ‘Hong Kong Composers’ Workshop II.’ South China Morning Post, December 9, 1998, p. 22.

    ‘Music expresses the body’s dreams: Meredith Monk.’ South China Morning Post, November 26, 1998, p. 22.

    ‘Igor Zhukov, Pianist, City Hall Concert Hall, July 8.’ South China Morning Post, July 10, 1998, p. 22.

    ‘Hong Kong Philharmonic, Hong Kong Cultural Centre.’ South China Morning Post, June 23, 1998, p. 22.

    ‘Hong Kong Philharmonic, Hong Kong Cultural Centre.’ South China Morning Post, June 15, 1998, p. 25.

    ‘Metropolis, City Hall Concert Hall.’ South China Morning Post, February 25, 1998, p. 23.

    ‘Compositeurs d’aujourd’hui, City Hall Concert Hall.’ South China Morning Post, February 22, 1998, p. 10.

    ‘Sonic Confluences, City Hall Theatre.’ South China Morning Post, February 20, 1998, p. 22.

    ‘Salome, Hong Kong Cultural Centre/Grand Theatre.’ South China Morning Post, February 16, 1988, p. 20.

    ‘Bitter Sweet & Twisted, Fringe Club.’ South China Morning Post, January 23, 1998, p. 24.

    ‘The Merry Widow, Sha Tin Town Hall, January 9-11.’ South China Morning Post, January 12, 1998, p. 23.

    ‘San Francisco Symphony, Sha Tin Town Hall, October 13.’ South China Morning Post, October 15, 1997, p. 25.

    ‘On my mind: Police deaf to Beethoven spirit.’ South China Morning Post, July 9, 1997, p. 2.

    ‘Fast Music for Fast Food.’ Music/food review. Asian Home Gourmet, vol. 4 no. 2 (Summer 1997), p. 13.

    ‘Single-Handed Success: Leon Fleisher’s keyboard comeback,’ article; ‘When bad things happen to good
    pianists,’ sidebar. Piano & Keyboard, no. 163 (July/August 1993), pp. 29-33.

    ‘SCREAM.’ Concert by Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music; Journal SEAMUS (for the
    Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Los Angeles), vol. 2 no. 1 (February 1987).

    ‘Eugene Ormandy Conducting the San Francisco Symphony.’ Castro Times (March 1983).

    ‘New & Unusual Music Concert.’ Members of San Francisco Symphony. Castro Times, no. 33 (January 1983).

    Concert and recording notes for numerous ensembles and soloists, including

    San Francisco Symphony Orchestra & Chorus; Houston Symphony Orchestra; Seattle Symphony Orchestra; San Francisco Chamber Orchestra

    Chanticleer, San Francisco; Ariel, A Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, San Francisco; Golden Gate Men’s
    Chorus, San Francisco; Die Männerstimmen, San Francisco; Marin Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, San
    Francisco; San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus; Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles; University of California
    Choral Ensembles, Berkeley; Konzertchor Darmstadt, Germany

    Camerata Records; 92nd Street Y, New York; Berkeley Stage (on Ligeti); Society of Gay & Lesbian Composers,
    San Francisco; Da Camera Society / Music in Historic Sites, Los Angeles; Malibu / Strawberry Creek
    Music Festival, Los Angeles; Sitka / LA Festival of Chamber Music, Los Angeles; UCLA Center for the
    Arts, Los Angeles; UCLA Department of Music, Los Angeles

Papers Presented
  • Invited and Keynote
    Schnebel 80: Rückblicke – Ausblicke, Universität der Künste Berlin
    ‘The Integrity of Musical Discourse: Schnebel and a Connected Universe’ [invited/featured]     		October 2010
    World AIDS Day Conference, Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne
    ‘Art about AIDS’ [invited/featured]     		December 2009
    Roche Molecular Symposium, Shrigley Hall, Macclesfield, UK
    ‘Art about AIDS’ [invited/featured]     		June 2008
    Institute of Musical Research, U. of London – Directions in Musical Research Seminar
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’ [invited]     		November 2007
    Musicological Society of Australia, South Australia Chapter Meeting, Adelaide University
    ‘Sex vs. Death: Music about AIDS’ [invited]     		April 2002
    Naomi Cumming Postgraduate Award Day, Musicological Society of Australia,
    South Australia Chapter, Adelaide University
    ‘Defining and Defending Systematic Musicologies’ [invited keynote]     		December 2001
    Musicological Society of Australia, South Australia Chapter Meeting, Adelaide University
    ‘Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Conservatives: Longing for Utopia’ [invited]     		October 2001
    UCLA, Department of Musicology Graduate Students Society, Distinguished Lecture Series
    ‘The Structure of Graphic Scores: Bussotti, Haubenstock-Ramati, Logothetis, & a Typology of Concepts’     		January 2001
    Självreflexivitet i musikforskningen (Self-reflexivity & Musicology), Turku, Finland
    Seminar for Skagerak Network (consortium of Scandinavian university music departments)
    ‘In the Hall of Mirrors’ [invited keynote]     		October 1999
    Gay & Lesbian Study Group of the AMS, ForePlay Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    ‘Performance and/or Shame’ [invited]     		October 1994
  • National and International Conferences
    Myth, Literature, & the Unconscious, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex
    ‘Death’s Wardens: Archetypal Figures and AIDS in Stage & Film’     		September 2010
    LGBT Health Summit 2009, Gateshead, UK
    ‘AIDS Rage: Anger in Music about AIDS’     		October 2009
    American Musicological Society, Annual Conference, Nashville
    ‘AIDS Rage: Anger in Music about AIDS’     		November 2008
    Institute of Musical Research, U. of London – Directions in Musical Research Seminar
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’ [invited]     		November 2007
    AIDS in Culture IV: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS, Puebla, Mexico
    ‘AIDS Rage: Anger in Music about AIDS’ (read by Fred Maus)     		December 2007
    Fifth Biennial International Conference on Music since 1900, University of York
    ‘Portraits of intimacy: Sylvano, voix de femme, Cathy, and la passion’     		July 2007
    Musicological Society of Australia, South Australia Chapter Meeting, Adelaide University
    ‘Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Conservatives: Longing for Utopia’ [invited]     		October 2001
    International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 14th Biennial International
    Conference, Mexico City
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’
    ‘Sexo contra muerte: AIDS and Popular Hispanic Music’ (presenter; co-author with Vanessa Knights)     		June 2007
    Society for Latin American Studies, Annual Conference, Newcastle University
    ‘Sexo contra muerte: AIDS and Popular Hispanic Music’ (presenter; co-author with Vanessa Knights)     		April 2007
    Music and Consciousness, University of Sheffield
    ‘The Universe Will Tell You What It Needs: Being, Time and Sondheim’     		July 2006
    ‘Cathy Berberian, Pioneer’, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
    ‘Portraits of intimacy: Sylvano, voix de femme, Cathy, and la passion’     		April 2006
    Royal Musicology Association, 39th Annual Conference, Cardiff University
    ‘Against History: Defining, and Defending, Systematic Musicology’     		September 2003
    Music and Gesture, University of East Anglia, Norwich
    ‘A Separate Music: Meredith Monk and Notation, Performance, Voice’     		August 2003
    Society for Music Analysis, Hull University Music Analysis Conference
    ‘Dialectics of Serialism: Abstraction & Deconstruction in Schnebel’s für stimmen (… missa est)’     		July 2003
    International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 12th Biennial International Conference,
    Montreal: Practicing Popular Music
    ‘Closeness and Distance: Songs about AIDS’     		July 2003
    Third Biennial International Conference on 20th-Century Music, University of Nottingham
    ‘Hieroglyph, gesture, sign, meaning: Analyzing Bussotti’s Pièces de chair II’     		June 2003
    Society for American Music, 29th Annual National Conference, Tempe, Arizona
    ‘A Separate Music: Meredith Monk and Notation, Performance, Voice’     		March 2003
    International Musicological Society, 17th Congress, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium
    ‘The Structure of Graphic Scores: Bussotti, Haubenstock-Ramati, Logothetis, & a Typology of Concepts’     		August 2002
    Cultural Studies Association of Australia, Annual Conference, U. of Tasmania, Hobart
    ‘Hieroglyph, gesture, sign, meaning: Analyzing Bussotti’s Pièces de chair II’     		December 2001
    Second Biennial International Conference on 20th-Century Music, Goldsmiths College, London
    ‘Gay Darmstadt: Flamboyance and Rigor at the Summer Courses for New Music’
    (presenter; co-author with David Osmond-Smith, University of Sussex)     		June 2001
    MUSICology 2001, Musicological Society of Australia, Annual Conference, Melbourne
    ‘Gay Darmstadt: Flamboyance and Rigor at the Summer Courses for New Music’
    (presenter; co-author with David Osmond-Smith, University of Sussex)     		April 2001
    Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections, Society for American Music, Annual Conference
    ‘I Just Bette: Narcissism, Gay Identification, and the Divine Miss M’     		November 2000
    Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections, Gay & Lesbian Study Group/American Musicological
    Society & Gay & Lesbian Discussion Group/Society for Music Theory, U. of Toronto
    ‘Gay Darmstadt: Flamboyance and Rigor at the Summer Courses for New Music’
    (presenter, co-author with David Osmond-Smith, University of Sussex)     		November 2000
    Musicological Society of Australia, Annual Conference / New Zealand Musicological
    Society, Annual Conference: Music as Cultural Interpretation, Sydney
    ‘A Passion for the Violent Ineffable: Modernist Music and the Angel’     		April 2000
    American Musicological Society, Annual Conference, Kansas City
    ‘Battles of Vision & Reason: Bussotti’s Graphic Scores, Parts & Corrections’     		November 1999
    Third Triennial British Musicological Societies Conference & First Biennial International
    Conference on 20th-Century Music, Surrey
    ‘A Passion for the Violent Ineffable: Modernist Music and the Angel’     		July 1999
    Society for Music Theory, Annual Conference, Phoenix, Arizona
    ‘Dialectics of Serialism: Abstraction & Deconstruction in Schnebel’s für stimmen (… missa est)’     		November 1997
    International Musicological Society, 16th International Congress, London
    ‘Imploding the System: Kagel and the Deconstruction of Modernism’     		August 1997
    Feminist Theory & Music IV, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
    ‘At three in the morning, with both pedals down: Tori Amos’ Not The Red Baron’     		June 1997
    American Musicological Society, Annual Conference, New York
    ‘Rebellion in Darmstadt: The Anti-Serial Reaction, 1958-68’     		November 1995
    Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany: 37th Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
    ‘Radical Musicologies in America     		August 1994
    American Musicological Society, Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada
    ‘Paradox, Alienation, Violence: The Rhetoric of Affect in the Avant-Garde’     		November 1993
    Feminist Theory & Music II, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York
    ‘Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Conservatives: Erasing Women’ (presented by Philip Brett)     		June 1993
    Society for Ethnomusicology, Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois
    ‘Authority and freedom: Towards a sociology of the gay choruses’     		November 1991
    Feminist Theory and Music: Toward a Common Language, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    ‘Authority and freedom: Towards a sociology of the gay choruses’     		July 1991
  • Regional Conferences
    Women’s & Gender Studies Programs, University of Texas at Austin, ‘Feelings & Memory’
    ‘Towards the Authentic: Aspects of Meredith Monk’s Theater’     		October 2003
    Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History, University of Leeds, CongressCATH 2003
    ‘Hieroglyph, gesture, sign, meaning: Analyzing Bussotti’s Pièces de chair II’     		July 2003
    Feminist Musicology: Where Are We Now?, Critical Musicology Forum,
    Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey, Department of Music
    ‘I Just Bette: Narcissism, Gay Identification, and the Divine Miss M’     		January 2003
    National University, Singapore, American Studies Center: America & Asia at Century’s End
    ‘Infusing the Tea: Asian Sounds in American Music’ on panel ‘Uncle Sam Meets the Buddha’     		May 1999
    American Musicological Society, Northern California & Pacific Southwest Chapters, Stanford U.
    ‘Imploding the System: Kagel and the Deconstruction of Modernism’     		May 1996
    West Coast Conference of Music Theory & Analysis, University of California, Davis
    ‘Imploding the System: Kagel and the Deconstruction of Modernism’     		April 1996
    Music Frontiers 1993: Darmstadt/San Diego, University of California, San Diego
    ‘Hieroglyph, gesture, sign, meaning: Analyzing Bussotti’s Pièces de chair II’     		May 1993
    American Musicological Society, Northern California & Pacific Southwest Chapters,
    Ingolf Dahl Competition, San Luis Obispo, California
    ‘Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Conservatives: Longing for Utopia’     		April 1993
    West Coast Conference of Music Theory & Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara
    ‘Signifying chaos: Towards a semiotic analysis of Sylvano Bussotti’s Siciliano’
    		 April 1992
    University of California, Berkeley – Symposium, Music, Politics, & the Transcendental Strain: April 1992
    1900-1920; combined with meeting of Pacific Southwest and Northern California Chapters
    ‘Adjacencies: Response to Anthony Newcomb and Chris Williams’     		April 1992
    Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter, Dominguez Hills, California
    ‘Authority and freedom: Towards a sociology of the gay choruses’     		March 1992
  • Colloquia & Symposia
    St. Paul’s School, Music Society, London
    ‘The Structure of Graphic Scores: Music Against the Grain’     		March 2011
    York University, Department of Music, Research Seminar
    ‘Who Dies? Musical/Textual Construction in Jarman’s Edward II’     		March 2011
    Newcastle University, International Centre for Music Studies, Research Seminar
    ‘Who Dies? Musical/Textual Construction in Jarman’s Edward II’     		April 2010
    University of Glasgow, Department of Music, Research Seminar
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’     		March 2010
    Durham University, Department of Geography
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’     		February 2010
    University College Cork, Department of Music, Research Seminar
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’     		March 2009
    North-East Network for Medicine & the Arts, Durham University
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’     		December 2008
    Newcastle University, School of Historical Studies, History of Medicine, Seminar
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’     		March 2008
    Newcastle University, International Centre for Music Studies, Research Seminar
    ‘AIDS Rage: Paranoia and Anger in Music about AIDS’     		November 2007
    University of Liverpool, Department of Music
    ‘Rock, Television, Paper, Musicals, Scissors: Buffy, The Simpsons, South Park, and Parody’     		December 2006
    Newcastle U., Cultural Technologies of the Body Research Group, Spectatorship Seminar
    ‘A Separate Music: Meredith Monk and Notation, Performance, Voice’     		December 2006
    Newcastle General Hospital, Infectious Diseases Unit, Infection & Immunology Lunchtime Mtgs
    ‘Art about AIDS’     		May 2006
    Symposium: Music & Politics, Popular Music Research Forum, Newcastle University
    ‘Sexo contra musica: AIDS and Popular Hispanic Music‘ (co-presenter with Vanessa Knights)     		May 2006
    University of London, Inst. for the Study of the Americas, Latin American Music Seminar
    ‘SIDA y musicá‘ (co-presenter with Vanessa Knights)     		November 2005
    University of York, Department of Music, Research Seminar
    ‘Closeness and Distance: Songs about AIDS’     		February 2005
    Newcastle University, Medical School, MEDSHINE
    ‘Art about AIDS’     		November 2004
    ‘Conserving the Classical’, Symposium for Lawrence Kramer, ICMuS, Newcastle University
    ‘Radical, Classical, Oedipal: Battles over a Darmstadt Canon’     		May 2004
    University of Glasgow, Department of Music, Research Seminar
    ‘Closeness and Distance: Songs about AIDS’     		March 2004
    University of Edinburgh, Department of Music, Research Seminar
    ‘Closeness and Distance: Songs about AIDS’     		March 2004
    University College Cork, Department of Music, Research Seminar
    ‘Closeness and Distance: Songs about AIDS’     		February 2004
    University of Huddersfield, Department of Music, Research Forum
    ‘Closeness and Distance: Songs about AIDS’     		November 2003
    University of Texas at Austin, School of Music, Music Theory Forum
    ‘The Structure of Graphic Scores: Bussotti, Haubenstock-Ramati, Logothetis, & a Typology of Concepts’     		October 2003
    Newcastle University, Voice Research Group, Seminar on Voice Quality
    ‘Analyzing Vocal Timbre’     		May 2003
    Newcastle University, Department of Music, Research Seminar
    ‘Sex vs. Death: Music about AIDS’     		November 2002
    University of Sydney, Department of Music, Colloquium
    ‘Sex vs. Death: Music about AIDS’     		May 2002
    University of Victoria at Wellington, New Zealand, Department of Music, Musicology Seminar
    ‘Performance and/or Shame: A Mosaic of Gay (and other) Perceptions’     		October 2001
    UCLA, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Studies Program
    ‘I Just Bette: Narcissism, Gay Identification, and the Divine Miss M’     		October 2000
    University of Sussex, Department of Music
    ‘Pleasure, Perversion and Discretion in the Postwar Avant-Garde: Sylvano Bussotti’s
    La passion selon Sade’ (co-presentation with David Osmond-Smith, University of Sussex)     		October 2000
    Stanford University, Department of Music, Opera Discussion Group
    ‘Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Conservatives: Longing for Utopia’     		January 2000
    San Francisco State University, De Bellis Collection; co-sponsored by Italian Cultural Institute
    ‘Passion according to Bussotti: Music / Graphic / Theater / Eroticism’     		January 2000
    University of Maryland, College Park, School of Music, Colloquium
    Co-sponsored by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Equity & HIV Prevention Program
    ‘AIDS and Music’     		November 1999
    University of Hong Kong, Department of Music, Research Colloquium
    ‘Battles of Vision & Reason: Bussotti’s Graphic Scores, Parts & Corrections’     		October 1999
    University of Sydney, Department of Music, Colloquium
    ‘Rebellion in Darmstadt: The Anti-Serial Reaction, 1958-68’     		March 1998
    University of Hong Kong, Department of Music, Research Colloquium
    ‘Rebellion in Darmstadt: The Anti-Serial Reaction, 1958-68’     		November 1997
    Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Music, Research Colloquium
    ‘Rebellion in Darmstadt: The Anti-Serial Reaction, 1958-68’     		November 1997
    University of California, Riverside, Department of Music, Colloquium
    ‘Pfitzner, Palestrina, Nazis, Conservatives: Longing for Utopia’     		November 1992
  • Panels
    World AIDS Day Conference, Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne
    ‘Living with AIDS’ & Final Panel Discussion     		December 2009
    American Musicological Society, Annual Conference, Nashville
    Panelist: ‘Scholars with Disabilities’: ‘Time, Work, and Chronic Illness’     		November 2008
    Music & Machines: Improvisation – Freedom and Tradition; Newcastle University
    Preexistent Materials & Found Objects – ‘Graphic Scores: the Depth of Difference’     		December 2007
    The American Musical on Stage & Screen, Conference, UCLA
    ‘Gender & Sexuality’ [invited]     		October 2007
    Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge
    Panelist: ‘Musical Experiments at Black Mountain College’ [invited]     		March 2006
    Royal Music Association, Research Students Conference 2006, University of Leeds
    Panelist: ‘Queer Theory’ [invited]     		January 2006
    Changing Tomorrow: Am I Doing Something?, National AIDS Trust, U. of Leicester
    Patient & Public Involvement: ‘What makes involvement work?’ [invited plenary]     		September 2004
    International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 12th Biennial International Conference,
    Montreal: Practicing Popular Music
    ‘Queering the Pitch’     		July 2003
    University of Hong Kong, American Studies Program – American Myths, American Movies
    Panelist: ‘The Wizard of Oz’     		March 1999
    Readers & Writers Conference, San Francisco
    Panelist: ‘Trends in Queer Studies’     		April 1996
    Feminist Theory & Music III, University of California, Riverside
    Panelist: ‘Negotiating the Faultlines’     		June 1995
    Readers & Writers Conference, San Francisco
    Chair & panelist: ‘Out in Academia’     		February 1995
    Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany: 37th Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
    Panelist: ‘Analytical & Terminological Problems of Contemporary Music –
    A Meeting between European & American Musicologists & Composers’     		August 1994
    Panelist: ‘Über den Werdegang von Aldo Clementi & Sylvano Bussotti,’
    with Gianmario Borio and Luigi Pestalozza     		August 1994
    Antioch University, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Colloquium
    Panelist: ‘Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Lifestyles’     		November 1992
    University of California, Berkeley – Symposium, Music, Politics, & the Transcendental Strain
    Panelist: ‘Music, Politics, and the Transcendental Strain’     		April 1992
  • Session Chair
    AV 08 Audio-Visual Festival / Music & Machines Conference, Culture Lab, Newcastle
    Chair: ‘Variations Now: On John Cage’s Variations VII’     		February 2008
    Fifth Biennial International Conference on Music since 1900, University of York
    Chair: ‘Cultural Interconnections’     		July 2007
    Music and Consciousness, University of Sheffield
    Chair: ‘Cultural Case Studies’     		July 2006
    International Association for the Study of Popular Music, 12th Biennial Conference, Montreal
    Chair: ‘Womyn, Communities and Music’     		July 2003
    Third Biennial International Conference on 20th-Century Music, University of Nottingham
    Chair: ‘Virtual Theatres’     		June 2003
    Feminist Theory & Music III, University of California, Riverside
    Chair: ‘Music and AIDS’     		June 1995
    Readers & Writers Conference, San Francisco
    Chair & panelist: ‘Out in Academia’     		February 1995
  • Public Venues
    Newcastle World AIDS Day – MC & Speaker, Newcastle Centre for Life December 2009
    MC & Speaker, Sage Gateshead Event December 2007, 2008
    Speaker, World AIDS Day Vigil December 2004, 2005, 2006
    Northern Stage, Newcastle – events associated with production of ‘Angels in America’
    ‘Art about AIDS’ – presenter; Public Discussion with Actors & Patients – presentation chair     		May 2007
    Patient Participation Team, Newcastle General Hospital
    General Manager, October 2003 to November 2006; Training Manager, January 2009 to April 2010;
    Speaker, October 2003 to the present
    ‘Writing the Virus’, Proudwords Festival of Lesbian, Gay & Bisexual Writing, Newcastle
    Co-presenter of public workshop on art and writing about AIDS     		October 2006
    Art Café at Betty’s, Pride on Tyne – ‘Art about AIDS’ November 2005
    SAGE Gateshead – Preconcert speaker November 2005
    Da Camera Society, Music in Historic Sites, Los Angeles – Preconcert speaker January to May 1991
  • Interviews
    Interviewed for BBC Radio Newcastle, Breakfast Show July 2010
    Interviewed for BBC Radio Newcastle, Evening News January 2009
    Interviewed for BBC Radio Newcastle, Mike Parr’s Breakfast Show; panelist December 2005; January 2006, April 2006, August 2006, April 2007
    Interviewed for BBC Radio, Hear & Now (broadcast concert) January 2007
    Interviewed for BBC Radio Newcastle, Mid-Morning Programme December 2006
    Interviewed for BBC – TV, ‘Look North’ December 2005
    Interviewed for ITV, Tyne Tees TV News December 2005
    Interviewed for Metro & Magic News, Metroradio, Newcastle upon Tyne November 2005
    Interviewed for BBC Radio 3, ‘Hear and Now,’ Aldeburgh Festival November 2003
    Interviewed by Katherine Kenealy for Radio 5UV Adelaide, ‘Art Breakfast’ April 2002
    Interviewed by Ewart Shaw for Radio 5UV Adelaide, ‘On Campus’ October 2001
    Interviewed by Paul Bushnell for Radio New Zealand, ‘On Stage’ January 1999

Grants & Awards
  • School of Arts & Cultures Research Fund, Newcastle University, January 2008 (£ 450 / US$ 750)
  • British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant, May 2003 (£ 563 / US$ 950)
  • Arts & Humanities Research Fund, Newcastle University, April 2003 (£ 300 / US$ 500)
  • David Tudor Library Research Grant 2000-01, Getty Research Institute for the History of Arts and the
    Humanities, Los Angeles (US$ 2,500/£ 1,500)
  • Research Grants Council ‘Competitive Bid’ Research Grant Award, 1998-2001, University Grants Council,
    Hong Kong (HK$ 938,000/£ 65,000/US$ 121,000), for research in postwar European avant-garde music
    Committee on Research and Conference Grants, University of Hong Kong
    CRCG Research Grant Award, 2000-2001 (HK$ 100,000/£ 7,000/US$ 12,900)
    CRCG Research Grant Award, 1998-99 (HK$ 60,000/£ 4,200/US$ 7,750)
    CRCG Research Grant Award, 1997-98 (New Staff) (HK$ 90,000/£ 6,300/US$ 11,600)
    CRCG Conference Grant, November 2000 (HK$ 7,500/£ 550/US$ 970)
    CRCG Conference Grant, November 1999 (HK$ 15,000/£ 1,050/US$ 1,900)
    CRCG Conference Grant, August 1997 (HK$ 14,000/£ 1,000/US$ 1,800)
    CRCG Conference Grant, June 1997 (HK$ 14,000/£ 1,000/US$ 1,800)
  • Fulbright Award, 1993-4 (Institute of International Education, Full Maintenance Award plus Graduate
    Fellowship Stipend, plus extension). Fellowship for research at Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt
    and Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel; conference at Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung, Darmstadt.
  • ‘Re-Theorizing Music’ research group, Resident Graduate Fellowship, University of California Humanities
    Research Institute, UC Irvine, California, September-December 1994.
  • Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany – stipend for
    summer courses, July-August 1994.
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1995-6, University of California, Los Angeles (US$ 14,000/£ 8,000).
  • New York Residency Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. Interviews with composers and
    performers; research at American Music Center and Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts.
  • Clifton Webb Endowment stipend, 1992. University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Ingolf Dahl Competition, Nominated Finalist, Northern California and Pacific Southwest Chapters, American
    Musicological Society, San Luis Obispo, California, 1993.
  • Robert Wilson Workshop in Contemporary Performance. Scholarship to perform in first version of Wilson’s
    Lear. University of California, Los Angeles, 1985.
  • Merit Fellowships in Systematic Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984-5, 1985-6.

Administration & Service
  • Newcastle University, International Centre for Music Studies – Committees & Duties

    Director of Postgraduate Studies, School of Arts & Cultures, 1/06-1/08
    Head of Postgraduate Studies, ICMuS, 9/05-1/08; Degree Program Director, M.A., 9/05-1/08; Degree
    Program Director, M.Mus., 1/06-8/06
    Degree Program Director (9/03-2/05, 2/09-present); Assistant Degree Program Director (2-8/03) – B.Mus.
    (Honors) Program with Year Abroad
    Degree Program Director – Combined Studies, 9/08-present
    International Officer, 2/03-2/05, 2/09-present
    Library Liaison & Committee Chair, 2/09-present
    Admissions & Recruitment – 2002-04
    Administrator, Royal Music Association, Research Student Conference, March 2005
    Music & Letters Conference Grant, £300 (US$ 500)
    Organizer, Voice Research Group, Seminar on Voice Quality, May 2003
    Representative, Association of University Teachers, School of Arts & Cultures, 2003-2006

  • University of Hong Kong – Committees & Duties

    American Studies Program Committee – Department Representative
    European Studies Program Committee – Department Representative
    Faculty Working Group on Institutional Curricular Reform – Department Representative
    Graduate Faculty Committee for Diploma & M.A. in Arts & Entertainment Administration – Member
    Arts Faculty Timetable Committee – Department Representative

  • Department of Music

    Undergraduate handbook, postgraduate handbook, non-major courses flyer – text, design and production
    Administration of department Web page
    Student Course Evaluations Coordinator
    Coordinator of Rayson Huang Lecturer visit by Meredith Monk
    Coordinator of workshop and colloquium by composer Gerhard Stäbler

  • External Service

    Hong Kong Examinations Authority, Advanced Level Examinations in Music, Sixth Form Subject Committee
    in Music, member 1997-2000
    Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, School of Dance, Music Theatre Department – Examiner, Vocal
    Examinations, June 1999

  • Peer reviewer
    AHRC Peer Review, 2010
    American Music, 2003, 2010
    Women and Music: a Journal of Gender and Culture, 2008
    Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007
    Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, February 2006
    Ashgate Publishers, 2004
    Journal of the Royal Musicological Association, 2003
    Canadian University Music Review, 2003
    Proceedings, Musicological Society of Australia, 2003 (Cambridge U. Press)
    Continuum, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association of Australia, 2002
    New Music, electronic journal, University of Huddersfield, UK, 2000
  • Co-chair, AMS Council Outreach Committee, 2000-2001; Member, 1999-2001.
    Member-at-large, Advisory Council, American Musicological Society, 1999-2001.
    Founder/organizer, Gender & Sexuality Group, Musicological Society of Australia, 2001.
    Co-founder, Society of Gay & Lesbian Composers, San Francisco, from 1981.
    Organization had regular triennial concerts 1985-98, and had a peak membership of 50.
    Member, Selection Committee, Cambridge University Press Award, Society for American Music, 2009, 2010.
    Member, Selection Committee, Philip Brett Award, Gay & Lesbian Study Group, American Musicological Society, 2003, 2004.
    Member, Voice Research Group, ICMuS, Newcastle University, 2003-present.
    Associate Member, Centre for Contemporary Music, Durham University, 2003-present.
    Member, Popular Music Research Group, ICMuS, Newcastle University, 2002-present.
    Member, Program Committee, Feminist Theory & Music Conference IV, 1996-7.
    Member, Steering Committee, Philosophy of Music Group, Society for Music Theory, 1995-6.
    Member, Steering Committee, West Coast Conference of Music Theory & Analysis, 1992-3.
    Representative for Systematic Musicology to Graduate Music Student Association, UCLA, 1986-7.
  • Professional memberships since 1993 include: American Musicological Society, College Music Society, Gay &
    Lesbian Study Group of the AMS, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, International
    Musicological Society, Musicological Society of Australia, Royal Musical Association, Society for
    American Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, Society for Music Analysis, Society for Music Theory

  • Compositions & Arrangements Performed

    Seven Last Haiku, for piano, cello and speaking voice
    Performed by Newcastle University Contemporary Music Ensemble, April 2011 [scheduled]

    Tango: A slow hot wind for piano or keyboard
    Performed by Yvar Mikhashoff, October 8, 1987, University of California, San Diego.

    Voyelles for soprano and piano
    Performed by Renée Fladen-Kamm and Brenda Tom, Society of Gay & Lesbian Composers concert, San
    Francisco, March 23, 1986.
    Performed by Carole Schaeffer and Irene Alm, University of California, Los Angeles, April 23, 1986.

    Sudden Travel Plans: HD 5 (and) Colors – live improvisational computer music for two video/dance
    performance works. Created and performed for benefit produced by Jim Boggs for the Youth at Risk
    Dance Troupe on Macintosh and synthesizers, November 1987.

    The Gift, performance – co-author; Hollywood Senior Citizens Center, Los Angeles, California, January 1987.

    In Communicado, collaborative theater work, co-author; music for synthesizer, computer and voices
    Performed by Erica Nashan and the composer, December 14-15, 1985, Pasadena.

    Hard Candy Christmas by Carol Hall, arranged for TTBB chorus
    Performed by the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, San Francisco, December 1993.
    Performed by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, December 1987.

    Pacific Variations from songs by Stephen Sondheim, arranged for TTBB chorus
    Performed by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, July 1987.

    Company by Stephen Sondheim, arranged for TTBB chorus
    Performed by the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, soloist Sue Fink, April 1986 and June 1986.

    Ein Kind geborn, anonymous, arranged for SATB chorus
    Performed by the University Chorus, University of California, Berkeley, December 7, 1983.

    Nowadays by Kander & Ebb, arranged for TTBB chorus
    Performed by Men About Town, San Francisco, 1981, 1982.

    Unpublished texts for performance

    HKU University Choir & HKAPA Brass Ensemble – ‘A Celebration of Christmas,’ December 1999; script based on traditional Christmas texts for two readers, including myself.

    Vocal Minority, San Francisco – ‘Broadway/Rhythm,’ 1989; dialogue transitions for jazz/pop concert.

    Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles – ‘Home for the Holidays,’ December 1987; script based on traditional Christmas texts for two readers.

Selected Performances
  • Concert

    UCLA Contemporary Ensemble
    Soloist: Stravinsky, Elegy for J.F.K. and Pribaoutki
    Soloist: Walton, Façade

    Ariel, A Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, San Francisco
    Soloist/Ensemble; performed with San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; directed and programmed holiday ensembles

    New Music Ensemble, ICMuS, Newcastle University
    Soloist: Rzewski, Coming Together; Kagel, Tango alemán

    37th Internationale Ferienkurse für Neuen Musik Darmstadt, Germany
    Soloist: Harald Münz, deChiffrAGE (1993) for speaker and computer

    Bass Soloist
    Corpus Christi Catholic, Pacific Palisades, California
    St. Mary’s Episcopal, Palms, California
    St. Stephen’s Catholic, San Francisco
    Christ Episcopal, Washington, DC
    Balinese Gamelan, University of Hong Kong

    New Vocal Ensemble, ICMuS, Newcastle University
    Ensemble

    John Dryden in Music: Department of Musicology, UCLA
    Ensemble

    Sanford Dole Ensemble, San Francisco
    Ensemble

    Die Männerstimmen, A Chamber Chorus, San Francisco
    Soloist and Ensemble

    Music at the Cathedral of San Marcos; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
    Ensemble

    Byrd Consort Renaissance Quintet, San Francisco
    Ensemble

    Caroling Company, Los Angeles
    Soloist and Ensemble

    San Francisco Symphony Chorus
    Ensemble

    Oakland Symphony Chorus
    Ensemble

    Konzertchor Darmstadt, Germany
    Soloist and Ensemble

    Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles
    Soloist and Ensemble

    Company L.A., Los Angeles
    Soloist and Ensemble

    San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
    Soloist and Ensemble

    Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, San Francisco
    Ensemble

    Men About Town, San Francisco
    Soloist and Ensemble

    San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus Chamber Singers
    Ensemble

  • Stage

    Lear, performance – Cornwall*
    Robert Wilson, director; Metromedia Studios, Hollywood

    In Communicado, performance – Performer/writer/composer*
    Monrovia Arts Center, Monrovia, California

    The Sand Hills, opera – Spirit Leader*
    Bovard Auditorium, USC, Los Angeles

    A Hand of Bridge, one-act opera – David*
    Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles

    L’Abandon d’Ariane, one-act opera – Dionysos*
    Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles

    The Tide, one-act opera – Banker*
    Schoenberg Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles

    Fountain of Youth, musical – Francisco*
    New Performance Gallery, San Francisco

    Cabaret, musical – The Emcee*
    Ross Valley Players, Ross, California

    Fifty Years of Broadway, cabaret revue – Co-created, co-starred*
    Plush Room, Fanny’s Cabaret, Roxy Roadhouse, etc., San Francisco

    The AIDS Show, theater – Original Cast Actor*/Co-Author
    Theater Rhinoceros, San Francisco

    Sacred Cow, theater – Peter*
    New Zephyr Theater, San Francisco

    She Loves Me, musical – Kodaly*
    Steinway Theater, Los Angeles

    The Gift, performance work – Performer/writer/director*
    Hollywood Senior Citizens Center, California

    Harrowing of Hell, performance work – First Player*
    Noh Oratorio Society, Project Artaud, San Francisco

    Don Carlo, opera – Inquisition Monk
    David Alden, director, San Jose Symphony Opera

    The Wedding, theater – Young Man
    Theater Guild of SF, Victoria Theater, San Francisco

    Sun in the Underworld, Final Triumph, theater
    Staged readings, Playwrights’ Center, San Francisco

    The Four-Note Opera, opera – The Bass
    University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

    CBMG Video Magazine – Entertainment Anchor
    Couldn’t Be More Graphic, San Francisco

    Solo Cabaret Performances*
    Plush Room, Fanny’s Cabaret, Trinity Place, Chez Jacques, St. Francis Yacht Club, etc., San Francisco
    University of Hong Kong

    *Leading roles

Publications-Literary
  • The City, story in Pink Lane Poetry Book, Pink Lane Poetry & Performance, April 2010.

    Reitalianization, story in Hey Paesan!: Writing by Lesbians and Gay Men of Italian Descent, anthology edited by Giovanna Capone, Denise Leto & Tommi Mecca. Three Guineas Press, 1999.

    Going to Japan, story in His: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Writers, anthology edited by Robert Drake and Terry Wolverton. Boston: Faber & Faber, 1995.

    Easter and ‘This poisoned morning…’, poems, in New Press Literary Quarterly, vol. 9 no. 4 (Fall 1993).

    Chant, for Jay, poem, in New Press Literary Quarterly, vol. 9 no. 3 (Summer 1993).

    ‘Ravel glides through my fingers…,’ poem, in San Francisco Sentinel, vol. 21, no. 17 (April 29, 1993), p. 31. Winning entry in newspaper competition.

    Ave, story, and Absalom, poem, in Blood Whispers, anthology edited by Terry Wolverton. Los Angeles: Gay & Lesbian Community Services Center, 1991.

    Reise nach Japan (‘Going to Japan,’ story, translated into German by Erwin Matalla & Jörn Wolters.) Aktiv, Hamburg, Germany, August 1991; Haki Journal, Hamburg, September 1991.

    The Exodus, poem in Harbinger, anthology edited by Terry Wolverton and Benjamin Weissman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Arts Festival and Beyond Baroque Foundation, 1990.

    The AIDS Show, play (co-author) in West Coast Plays, vol. 17/18, Los Angeles: California Theater Council, 1985.
    Author of the ensemble pieces ‘Parties 1981-1985’ and ‘Hospital.’ Produced at Theater Rhinoceros, San
    Francisco, September 1984 – September 1986; then revised and retitled as Unfinished Business to May 1987. Toured New York, Boston, Denver, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Fresno. Independent productions
    included Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, San Diego, Indianapolis, Columbus, Kalamazoo, and London, England.

  • Journalism
    ‘A New Perspective from Newcastle: The Patient Participation Team.’ Report for Impact no. 11 (Winter 2006)(policy bulletin of National AIDS Trust in the UK), pp. 14-15.

    ‘Electronic Traitors: Globalink’s Language Translation Programs.’ Software review for Berkeley Macintosh
    User Group. BMUG Newsletter, Fall 1997, vol. 13 no. 2, pp. 147-50.

    ‘Hand it Over: An Insider’s Account of the Takeover of Hong Kong and its Meaning to Gay Life.’ Frontiers
    Newsmagazine     / San Francisco, vol. 16 no. 7 (July 31, 1997), pp. 18-21; Frontiers Newsmagazine / Los Angeles-National, vol. 16 no. 7 (August 8, 1997).

    ‘Driving a Tack with a Sledgehammer – Shanghai: Great Moments CD-ROM.’ Software review for Berkeley
    Macintosh User Group. BMUG Newsletter, Fall 1996, vol. 12 no. 2, pp. 221-3.
    River Fund San Francisco, wrote and produced AIDS support organization newsletter, no. 1, February 1996.

    ‘Peter Handke: Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wußten.’ Review of Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
    production, Berlin. Funnel / Fulbright Newsletter, no. 2 (May), 1994, pp. 26-9.

    ‘Gentleman and Scholar,’ interview by Richard Thigpen. Positive Living, vol. 2 no. 8, August 1993.

    ‘Blurbs on books about AIDS.’ Overview with brief reviews. APLA Update, vol. 3 no. 6, July 1991.

    ‘A.C.T.: Loot by Joe Orton.’ Review of American Conservatory Theater production, San Francisco. Castro Times, March 1983.

    Reviews of books for Positive Living, newsletter of AIDS Project Los Angeles, January 1992 to June 1993.

    ‘Of unicorns and AIDS.’ Review of Michael Bishop, Unicorn Mountain. vol. 1, no. 1.

    ‘Exploding the AIDS stigma.’ Review of Susan Sontag, AIDS and its Metaphors. vol. 1, no. 2.

    ‘All the way home with Monette.’ Review of Paul Monette, Halfway Home. vol. 1, no. 3.

    ‘Just deal with it.’ Review of Renate Rubinstein, Take It and Leave It: Aspects of Being Ill. vol. 1, no. 6.

    ‘Dramas from the early days.’ Review of The AIDS Show; Alan Bowne, Beirut; and William Hoffman, As Is. vol. 1, no. 7.

    ‘A Small Legacy With Sharp Edges.’ Review of David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives and Memories that Smell like Gasoline. vol. 1, no. 9.

    ‘Remembering Our Promises: The Books of the Quilt.’ Review of A Promise to Remember: The
    NAMES Project Book of Letters and The Quilt: Stories from the NAMES Project    . vol. 1, no. 10.

    ‘The Way Angels Live in America Now.’ Review of The Way We Live Now: American Plays and the
    AIDS Crisis    . vol. 1, no. 12.

    ‘Continuing the Dialogue: Poetry by New York PWAs.’ Review of Rachel Hadas, Unending Dialogue:
    Voices from an AIDS Poetry Workshop    . vol. 2, no. 1.

    ‘Shields and Slings and Arrows, and White Knights: Books on Legal Rights and AIDS.’ Review of
    Allan Terl, AIDS and the Law and AIDS Law in a Nutshell. vol. 2, no. 2.

    ‘The Unexamined Life: Derek Jarman’s Final, No Really, Ultimate Testament.’ Review of Derek
    Jarman, At Your Own Risk: A Saint’s Testament. vol. 2, no. 3.

    ‘Looking Right Over That Cliff: Interviews with Artists with AIDS.’ Review of Andréa Vaucher,
    Muses from Chaos and Ash: AIDS, Artists and Art. vol. 2, no. 4.

    ‘The Rebirth of High Decadence: McCourt’s Manhattan of Money, Fame and Mourning.’ Review of
    James McCourt, Time Remaining. vol. 2, no. 6.

  • Poems used as texts for composition
    Matthew Rowan, They offered prayers, original in style, for baritone and piano trio (2010).

Literary Readings
  • Green Festival, Pink Lane Poetry Slam, Newcastle upon Tyne June 2010
    Pink Lane Poetry Slams, Newcastle upon Tyne April 2010; November 2009 (1st place), September 2009 (2nd place)
    Stop AIDS Benefit Reading/Concert, Newcastle upon Tyne February 2010
    Postgraduate Improvisation Group/P.I.G., New Music Concert, Newcastle University
    ‘In Bed’, long poem read as basis for ensemble musical improvisation    		 December 2009
    Proudwords Launch, Newcastle upon Tyne October 2004
    A Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco October 1995, June 1993
    Boadecia’s Books, Kensington, California October 1995
    Readers & Writers Conference, San Francisco February 1995
    University of California, Irvine (two readings) December 1994
    Being Alive, Los Angeles April 1993
    Beyond Baroque, Arts Contingent / March on Washington Benefit, Venice, California November 1992
    Los Angeles Poetry Festival, A Different Light Bookstore, West Hollywood October 1992
    Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California October 1992
    Gay & Lesbian Services Center of Southern California, Los Angeles August 1992,
    August 1991,
    June 1991,
    May 1991,
    August 1990
    National Lesbian & Gay Health Conference, Los Angeles July 1992
    Gay Writers Series, A Different Light Bookstore, West Hollywood April 1992
    Gay Writers Series, A Different Light Bookstore, Los Angeles August 1991
    Bump & Grind Coffee Bar, Los Angeles July 1991
    University of California, Los Angeles, Kerckhoff Art Gallery January 1991,
    February 1991
    A Different Light Bookstore, Los Angeles December 1990
    A Different Light Bookstore, West Hollywood, California December 1990
    Beyond Baroque, Venice, California September 1990
    Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, California July 1990
    University of Redlands, Redlands, California April 1990
  • Organized
    University of California, Irvine (two readings) December 1994
  • Broadcast
    ‘Absalom’ (poem). On Violet Ink: Writings by Gays & Lesbians. National Public Radio program, produced by
    Terry Wolverton and Catherine Stifter, released nationally in June, 1991.

Selected Other Experience
  • Ethnomusicology Archive, University of California, Los Angeles: Librarian – Circulation and assistant management of recording archive; extensive precataloguing data entry for various non-Western music recordings. Returned in 1990-1 at request of head librarian. October 1989 to April 1991
    Imada/Schulte Group, West Hollywood: Grant Writer – Research, composition, management of non-profit and corporate grants. May 1989 to January 1990
    University of California, Los Angeles: Research Assistant – Programming in BASIC on Macintosh and Apple IIe, implementing music graphics and music theory education programs. October 1985 to June 1986
    University of California, Los Angeles: Research Assistant – Researched and processed bibliography and discography for Frederick Hammond’s Girolamo Frescobaldi: His Life and Music (Harvard University Press, 1983). January 1985 to June 1985
    Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C.: Assistant Librarian – Gift and Exchange. Computer processing and proofreading of materials, request searching, identification and categorization of publications, establishing precataloguing information; communications in several languages. October 1977 to July 1979
    Librarian (Independent Contractor) – Created and implemented investment research library for Wells Fargo Investment Advisors and for Bear Stearns & Co., Los Angeles; bibliographic systems, documentation, forms. Organization and cataloguing of large collection of choral music for Christ Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C.
    Arts Administrator (Independent Contractor) – Clients included San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, San Francisco Dance Spectrum, Mariedi Anders Artists Management and others. Publicity, fundraising, house management, program and ad design, records, general production. Personal and corporate accounting, correspondence, problem-solving in several languages.