Print Version of Curriculum Vitae (PDF Spring 2008)

Education
PhD (in progress)

MA Musicology, University of Minnesota (2007)
- Symphonia Caritatis: The Cistercian Chants of Hildegard von Bingen
- Symphonia Caritatis (PDF 1,233 Kb)
Donna Cardamone Jackson, adviser

BA Philosophy and Classics, Luther College (1992)
- Rooting the Arts: A Home for the Musician in the Philosophy of Simone Weil*
Kent Simmonds, thesis adviser / Loyal D. Rue, student adviser
Richard Simon Hanson, mentor / Wilfred F. Bunge (Greek N.T. Textual Criticism)
-Study Abroad, University of Nottingham, U.K. (1990-91)
** Recent Metaphysics and Epistemology (Robert Kirk and Terry E. Wilkerson)
** Moral Philosophy of Hume and Kant (Roger Gallie and Michael Clark)
** Philosophy of Science (Robert Black and Dieter Peetz)

Teaching Experience
Augsburg College, Faculty
MUS-130 - Introduction to Music in the Fine Arts
MUS-160 - Fundamentals of Music
MUE-129 A / B - Improvisation / Rock / Jazz Ensembles
MUP-116,216,316,416 - Electric Bass Instruction

McNally Smith College of Music, Faculty

MUS-319 - History of Western Art Music I: Chant to Bach
MUS-329 - History of Western Art Mus II: Mozart to Today
MUS-118 - History of Popular Music in America
MUS-109-S An Analytical Survey of Western Art Music 800CE to present
MUS-109 - Introduction to Music History

Past Teaching Assistantships:
University of Minnesota
Music 1804: The Worlds of Music (assisting Miriam Gerberg for Mirjana Lausevic)
Music 3029/Humanities 3029: Music in the 20th Century (assisting Donna Cardamone Jackson)

Past Work Experience:
Schmitt Music
Store Manager: Maplewood (1997-2001)
Sales & Product Trainer / Combo Instrument Specialist: Brooklyn Center (1994-1997)

Presentations & Publications
Assistant Instructor and Presenter: A Brief Introduction to Medieval Music Manuscripts and Sources, Minnesota Manuscript Research Laboratory at co-sponsored by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota. May 31-June 5, 2009

Presider, Hildegard von Bingen: Bridges to Infinity at 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies May 7-10, 2009

- Symphonia Caritatis: The Cistercian Chants of Hildegard von Bingen at 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies May 8-11, 2008

- Hildegard and the Cistercian Plan at International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies, 25th Anniversary, "Bridges to Infinity" at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia May 2008

- Symphonia Caritatis: The Cistercian Chants of Hildegard von Bingen Forthcoming

Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest, musicologist, Web-master & board member (2004-2008)

• 2007-08, 2005-06, 2004-05 (08-09) Minnesota High School Listening Contest Study Guide and Exams
  Author and Host. 100-129 pages with three audio CDs, engineered and produced in personal studio Grianeala Publishing.

Memberships and Affiliations
American Musicological Society
American Composers Forum
Center for Medieval Studies, UofM
International Boethius Society
International Musicological Society
* Cantus Planus - IMS Study Group
International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies, Treasurer & Webmaster
Minnesota Chorale, baritone; elected singer representative to the board 2002-2003; 2003-2004
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Research interests

* Development of Cistercian Liturgical Practice in mid to late 12th century Rheinland - Women's communities / Also Hirsau Reform, Victorines; Servite practice
* Hildegard in Context: Transmission, Corruption and Restoration of a 12th Century Magistra.
* Codicology & Paleography / Indexing / source studies and transmissions / Digital Tools (tracking down suspected 12th century RI antiphoners).
* Medieval Philosophy (especially of Music) / Calcidius-Timaeus / (The Role of the Musicus: from Plato to Simone Weil)
* The Quadrivium (especially Music and Astronomy - from Martianus Capella & Boethius through Brian May)
* History of Improvisation from Early through modern Art music / Performance Practice & Methods of Reconstruction
* Music Archaeology

* Endangered Language and Music/Art projects - "Liturgies" of endangered World Cultures.
* Anthropological Linguistics and Historical Ethnomusicology

* Natural and Magical Philosophy of Music in Context (from A. Kircher to Mozart's "Dice Game")
* Opera as Liturgy: Act IV of Le Nozze di Figaro.

* History and Performance practice of the Electric Bass in the modern Orchestra (a sort of updated Rimsky-K treatise)

* Secular music of the Rheinland
* German Philology
* Byzantine and Arabic sources
* Medieval and Byzantine influences in the works of Martin Luther.
* 19th Century Lutheran Liturgy & Hymnody from Alsace to Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska and Washington.
* History, Performance, and Orchestral Timbres of the Electric Bass
* Late 1960s/early 1970s Heavy Blues and Progressive Rock