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EDUCATION

University of California, Santa Cruz
* D.M.A. (Doctor of Musical Arts) in Music Composition and World Music (in progress)
2009: M.A. (Master of Arts) in Music Composition
California State University East Bay, Hayward
2007: B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) in Music (emphasis in Composition)
Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
2003: A.A. degree (Associate of Arts) with Honors
2002: C.A. (Certificate of Achievement) in Music Industry Studies

HONORS AND AWARDS

2009 - 2010: San Francisco Choral Artists New Voices Award, Pacific Rim Music Festival Premiere selection, UCSC Chancellors Doctoral Fellowship Award, UCSC Doctoral Tuition and Fee Fellowship.
2008 - 2009: UCSC Student Orchestral Composition Winner, 60x60 project - Pacific Rim Mix selection, UCSC Chancellors Doctoral Fellowship Award, UCSC Doctoral Tuition and Fee Fellowship, UCSC Porter College Graduate Arts Research Grant, UCSC Music Department Discretionary Funds Award
2007 - 2008: The David Cope Award for Music Composition Excellence, The Seattle Pianist Collective Final Pick, soundSCAPE Summer alternate, UCSC Chancellors Doctoral Fellowship Award, UCSC Doctoral Tuition and Fee Fellowship
2006 - 2007: CSUEB Student Composer’s Competition Winner, CSUEB Dean’s List Award
2005 - 2006: New Jersey International Film Festival Selection musical score “Sinful”, CSUEB Dean’s List Award
2005: John Lennon Songwriting Bus invitee, CSUEB Dean’s List Award
2003: DVC Academic Honors Award
2000: KSJS 90.5FM Best Album of the Year Award

POSITIONS OF LEADERSHIP

2009 - 2010: UCSC Graduate Student Representative, UCSC Graduate Arts Research Committee, UCSC Teaching Assistant for 1st and 2nd year Music Theory.
2008 – 2009: UCSC Teaching Assistant for 2nd year Music Theory and 18th Century Counterpoint, Graduate Student Researcher for professors Hi-Kyung Kim and David Evan Jones
2007 – 2008: UCSC Teaching Assistant for beginning Music Theory
2005 – 2007: Society of Composers Inc. Student Chapter President at CSUEB
2005 – 2007: Director of CSUEB chamber ensemble The Vertigo Series
2003 – 2005: Music Director and Composer for Storytime Pictures in San Francisco, CA

COMMISSIONS AND PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCES

2010: Atlanta Schola Cantorum, Del Sol String Quartet, Watsonville Taiko, UC Santa Cruz Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Music Ensemble Korea
2009: San Francisco Choral Artists, San Francisco Conservatory Chamber Ensemble, Cameron Mozee-Baum (piano)
2008: UC Santa Cruz Orchestra, Ariose Chamber Singers, Seattle Pianist Collective, April in Santa Cruz Festival
2007: CSU East Bay Percussion Ensemble, CSU East Bay Trombone Ensemble, CSU East Bay University Singers, Rodrigo Cortes (baritone)

PUBLICATIONS AND DISCOGRAPHY

2008: March 17, 2008 Anti-Mag article "Classical Mayhem", January 10, 2008 The Pioneer newspaper featured article “Former CSUEB Music Student”
2007: November 20, 2007 Ars Nova Classics CD release of Nick Vasallo’s “The Burning”, June 11, 2007 The Harbinger magazine interview “Nick Vasallo: Composer of Eclecticism”, April 2007 CSUEB Music Department interview “CSUEB Choral Competition Winner”

AREAS OF SPECIALIZED STUDY

2009: György Ligeti's compositional techniques in regards to harmony, form, counterpoint, and rhythm.
2009: Japanese-American Taiko music, history, rhythmic processes, social issues and performance practice (Watsonville Taiko)
2009: Traditional Korean music and performance practice (see workshop below)
2003: Film Scoring techniques, history, and applications (Storytime Pictures, ei Independent Cinema, and freelance).
2003: Digital Audio Recording - building a DAW, creating a network of DAW's, MIDI synthesis, software (Cakewalk Sonar, Logic Audio, Sound Forge, and more), hardware, recording engineering, and mixing.
2002: Music Industry Studies (Diablo Valley College) - music law, royalties, and contracts.
1999: Heavy Metal and "extreme" music history, culture, performance practice and theory.

PRINCIPAL INSTRUCTORS

SEMINARS, MASTER CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

2009: Olly Wilson, 5 week Korean Traditional Music Workshop: Soo-Neon Chung (Haegeum - fiddle), Sang-Hun Kim (Ajaeng - bowed zither), Jeong-Seung Kim (Daegeum, Seogeum, Danso - bamboo flutes), Ji-Young Yi (Gayageum - plucked zither), Ken Ueno
2008: Leh Liang, Belinda Reynolds, Dan Becker
2007: Anthony Joseph Lanman
2006: Philippe Bodin, Stephen Scott
2005: Kevin Puts

CONFERENCES AND FESTIVALS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), UCSC Composers Guild, Society of Composers Inc.