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EDUCATIONThe Juilliard School — DMA Music Composition, 2004
The Sibelius Academy — Fulbright Exchange Student, 2001-2002
Boston University College of Fine Arts — MM Music Composition, 1998
The Eastman School of Music — BM Music Composition, 1994
Teachers: Magnus Lindberg, Jouni Kaipainen, Eero Hämeenniemi, Christopher Rouse, Lukas Foss, Jacob Druckman, Charles Fussell, Richard Cornell, David Liptak, Warren Benson, Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler, and Robert Ward.
Doctoral document: The First Movement of Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony: Sketch Study and Style Analysis. Doctoral advisor: Robert Bailey.
TEACHINGCARLETON COLLEGE, NORTHFIELD, MN — 2007 TO PRESENTAssistant Professor of Music in Composition, tenure track
THE ENGLISH SCHOOL, HELSINKI, FINLAND — 2005-2006Composed, arranged, taught, conducted and coordinated music for 60th Anniversary concert in Tapiola Hall.
THE SIBELIUS ACADEMY — 2002-2004Music theory in English. Taught two levels of theory and one level of analysis. Courses included a range of written the-ory, dictation, sight singing, and aural skills.
THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL — 1999-2001Teaching Fellow. Taught all three levels of ear training and theory to students ranging from freshmen to doctoral stu-dents. Included extensive class teaching, group coaching, and individual lessons in theory, solfege, and dictation.
THE CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MUSIC — 2001Taught theory and ear training classes to beginning students aged 9-12, high school students, and adult students.
BOSTON UNIVERSITY TNGLEWOOD INSTITUTE — 1996 AND 1998Taught gifted young composers theory, ear training, composition, history, and orchestration. Organized and conducted reading sessions for weekly assignments and conducted recording sessions and concerts. (Notable students: Nico Muhly and Missy Mazzoli)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY — 1994-1996Teaching Assistant. Taught first-year ear training and theory, New Music Ensemble assistant—organized programs, concerts, researched program notes and occasionally conducted rehearsals.
CDSAlbany Records: Complete Piano Works (TBA 2013)Parma Recordings: Blueshift (TBA 2013)Parma Recordings: SCI Anthology #29 (TBA)Hämäläis-Osakunnan Laulajat: Alilo! 2011
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ALEX FREEMAN
composer
Alba Records: Lehdellä (Among the Leaves) 2009 Innova Records: Melville’s Dozen 2008IMU-Inkoon Musiikki: Kantele Satoa 2008Alba Records: Art of the Transcription 2007
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND LECTURESVisiting composer, Hillsdale College, MI — 2011Visiting composer, workshop, Tapiola Choir — 2011Composer-in-residence, Hämäläis-Osakunta Choir — 2002-presentLecture: Fifth International Sibelius Conference, Oxford University, Worcester College — 2010 Composer Armas Launis transcriptions and research performed at Finnish Institute, Paris, France — 2010, 2011Music of Lukas Foss, radio presentation, 2010 KRLX, Carleton College Radio — 2010Committee for Studies in the Arts at Carleton College, 2008-presentSuvisoitto (“Summer sounds”) workshop participant with Avanti! Chamber Orchestra — 2004, 2006, and 2007Seaside Florida Escape to Create — 2005Villa Montalvo — 1997Ucross Foundation — 1996Millay Colony — 1996
AWARDSJerome Fund for New Music — 2012Carleton College Targeted Opportunity Grant — 2012Honorable Mention in Eighth Blackbird’s Finale® National Composition Contest — 2011American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship — 2010American Composers Forum Encore grant — 2010Carleton College Large Faculty Development Endowment Award — 2009ASCAP Plus Awards — 2005-2012Carleton College Targeted Opportunity Grant — 2008Sibelius Academy research grant — 2003CIMO scholarship — 2002Fulbright Full Grant — 2001ASCAP Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Honorable Mention — 1999ASCAP Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Award — 1996American Academy of Arts and Letters: Charles Ives Scholarship — 1998American Music Center Copying Assistance Grant — 1995Boston University Composition Departmental Award — 1996Malloy-Miller Composition Prize, Boston University — 1996McCurdy Prize, Eastman School of Music — 1992
SELECTED WORKSString Quartet for Amernet Quartet (Jerome Fund Collaboration) — 2013 (in progress)Aerial Voices (Variations on a Theme of Charles Fussell) — 2013 in which the rep digit in base 3 looms for mixed choir (SATB) commissioned by Cantabile Choir, Helsinki — 2012Day and Night for youth choir and electric kantele. Commissioned by Tapiola Choir — 2011Carols for Yuletide for a cappella mixed chorus — 2010Outside Voices (Second Sonata) for piano solo, for Mänttä Festival, Finland — 2010Winter Pieces for pipa and mixed chamber ensemble, for Intersection: Gao Hong and friends — 2009Hämelaulu commissioned by Hämäläis-Osakunnan Laulajat, 80th Anniversary concert — 2009Introit for woodwind octet, for Carleton College and St. Olaf College faculty — 2008Toccata for Estonian kannel, commissioned by Hedi Viisma, premiered 2011, NYC — 2008Night on the Prairies for piano solo for Nicola Melville’s commissioning project, Melville’s Dozen — 2007one, one for Avanti! Chamber orchestra, cond. Magnus Lindberg — 2007Blueshift for fl, cl, vln, vc, pn, and perc, commissioned by the US Embassy and The Sibelius Academy — 2006The River Between for choir, orchestra, and tenor solo; David Searle, conductor. — 2006-7Intermezzo for fl, cl, vln, vc, and piano — 2006 A Short Engagement for orchestra for Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, Magnus Lindberg, cond. — 2005Bass Trombone Concerto commissioned by the West Point Band — 2005Three Pieces for piano solo, commissioned by Matilda Kärkkäinen — 2004Four Songs of Hellaakoski for a cappella mixed chorus, commissioned by HOL — 2004Magnolia for solo kantele — 2002O Magnum Mysterium for a cappella mixed chorus — 2002Sonata for piano solo — 2000
