Email addresses are included here by permission. Please send additions and corrections to lmchen@sas.upenn.edu
The following list includes only recipients of the Ph.D. in composition, with information on their academic positions. There are many distinguished and active composers who received a terminal Master's degree from Penn during the 1970s and early 80s (when the University did not grant Ph.D.s in composition.) Among these are Robert Carl (Hartt School of Music), Martin Herman (UC, Long Beach), Stephen Jaffe (Duke), and Robert Kyr (University of Oregon). There are also a number of our composition graduates who do not hold academic positions but maintain active compositional careers (among these is recent Pulitzer Prize winner, Melinda Wagner).
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Leo Dugan
lmdugan@sas.upenn.edu |
Concerto for Jazz Saxophone and Orchestra |
Independent Composer |
| 2005 |
Cameron Harris
cameron@sas.upenn.edu |
Three Night Pieces for orchestra |
Independent Composer |
| 2005 |
Kevin Kelly
kjkelly@sas.upenn.edu |
Never A Human Voice for orchestra |
Instructor, West Chester University |
2005 |
Benjamin C.S. Boyle
bboyle@sas.upenn.edu |
To one in paradise |
Instructor, Bryn Mawr Conservatory |
2003 |
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La pasion segun Antigona Perez |
Assistant Professor, DePauw University |
2003 |
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Fast Jump: etudes and interludes for solo piano |
Adjunct Faculty, Plymouth University, United Kingdom; Independent Composer |
2002 |
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Diary of the Damned |
Instructor, William Paterson University |
2001 |
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Sacred Symphony |
Adjunct Faculty, Boston College |
2001 |
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String Quartet |
Assistant Professor, Temple University |
2001 |
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Unwrapping a Mummy: for orchestra |
Assistant Professor, Taipei National University of the Arts |
2000
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Tung, Lai S.
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
Independent Composer |
2000
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Gill, Jeremy
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Symphony in One Movement |
Visiting Assistant Professor, West Chester University
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2000
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Boyce, Douglas
dboyce@gwu.edu |
Disputatio inter manum calamumque |
Assistant Professor, George Washington University; Independent Composer, counter)induction, Contemporary Music Forum
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1999
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Bartlett, Kyle
www.counterinduction.com |
'Le visage decouvert' |
Independent Composer,
counter)induction |
1998
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Chen, Chiung-Yu
chiungyu@alumni.upenn.edu
chiungyu@yahoo.com |
A Slow Dance for Orchestra |
Assistant Professor, Shih-Chien University, Taipei |
1998
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Wang Hwang, I-uen
i-uen@usa.net |
Autumn Atmosphere : A Series of Symphonic Poems for Full Orchestra
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Independent Composer |
1998
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Meadowcroft, Thomas
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Clarice |
Independent Composer |
1998
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Park, Jeong Yang
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Spectra: for orchestra
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Independent Composer |
1997
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Osbon, David
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Vox libertas |
Associate Professor, Kingston University, Surrey |
1997
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Ucarsu, Hasan
hasanucarsu@hotmail.com |
Ol: for large orchestra
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Assistant Professor, Istanbul Conservatory
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1996 |
Neceski, Chesky |
Apocalypsis for Large Orchestra |
Independent Composer |
1996
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Lee, Tzyy-Sheng
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Ascending/Descending : concerto for flute and chamber orchestra
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Associate Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University
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1995
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Bleckner, Andrew
ableckner@aol.com |
Two works for orchestra
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Composer, Miskan Shalom Synagogue |
1995
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Kim, Cecilia Heejeong
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Nocturnal mosaic : for piano and orchestra
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Assistant Professor, Sang Myung University |
1995
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Pervazov, Andrian
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Zed: for full orchestra
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Musicologist, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
1994
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Barker, Jennifer M.
jmbarker@UDel.Edu |
Celtic prayer: for orchestra
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Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
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1994
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Ben-Moshe, Boaz
benmoshe@research.haifa.ac.il |
Arak |
Associate Professor, Haifa University |
1994
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Higdon, Jennifer
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Voices: for string quartet
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Professor, Curtis Institute of Music
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1994
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Morgo, Jen
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Three seismic studies: for orchestra
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Lecturer, University of the Arts
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1994
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Patterson, Robert G.
robert@robertgpatterson.com
http://www.robertgpatterson.com |
Double edge: for large orchestra
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Horn, Memphis Symphony |
1993
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Ben-Amots, Ofer
obenamots@coloradocollege.edu |
Fool's paradise: opera buffa in one act
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Associate Professor, Colorado College
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1993
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Jalbert, Pierre
jalbert@rice.edu |
Remains of the silence: for chamber orchestra
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Associate Professor, Rice University
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1993
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Zohn-Muldoon, Ricardo
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La Tibieza del Tiempo |
Associate Professor, Eastman School of Music
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1992
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Fiday, Michael
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Delicate prey: orchestral sketch after Paul Bowles
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Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati |
1992
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Hershey, Sharon |
Arrival: for soprano and orchestra
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Minister of Music, St. David's Episcopal Church |
1992
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Whitman, Thomas
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Into the light : for baritone and large orchestra
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Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
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1992
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Crumb, David
drcrumb@darkwing.uoregon.edu |
Clarino: for orchestra
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Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
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1991
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Golijov, Osvaldo
Ytalianna@aol.com |
La Distanza Della Luna (The Distance of the Moon) |
Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross
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1991
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Kim, Gee
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Concerto no. 1 for piano and orchestra
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Professor, Kyungwon University
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1990
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Lee, Kui-Im
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"Sori" for Orchestra |
Assistant Professor, Fort Valley State University
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1990
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Maggio, Robert
maggio@wcupa.edu |
A Symphony of Memory |
Associate Professor, West Chester University
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1989
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Cotton, Jeffery |
"Poems of Night" |
Composer-in-residence, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Boston |
1989
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Ben-Shabetai, Ari
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Harps and horns: five love songs from Egyptian antiquity for five soloists |
Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem
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1986
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Arauco, Ingrid
iarauco@haverford.edu |
First-music: overture for orchestra
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Associate Professor, Haverford College
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1986
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Meyer, Ruth
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On that day deep in my life: for orchestra
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Independent Composer |
1986
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Ure, James
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Symphony in two movements
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Independent Composer |
1986
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Wagner, Melinda
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Passages: for full orchestra
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Independent composer; Pulitzer Prize Winner
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1985
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Permont, Haim
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Like the leaden sky before it rains: a cycle of songs for choir, soloists and orchestra to poems written by children at the Terezin ghetto in 1942-1944
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Associate Professor, Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem
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1984
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Leef, Yinam
yleef@013.net.il
http://www.aquanet.co.il/ |
Violin concerto
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Associate Professor, Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem
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1977
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Pollack, Alan William
awp@world.std.com |
Chaconne arabesque: an original musical composition for large orchestra
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Senior Engineering Manager, Domain Pharma Corporation |
1975
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Hartwell, Hugh
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Sonata for orchestra
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Professor, McMaster University |
1970
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Reale, Paul
p_reale@minotaurz.com
http://www.minotaurz.com/minotaur |
"Process of multivalent thematic transformation" |
Professor, University of California at Los Angeles
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1949
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Dorsey, James
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American vignette: a full choral symphony in four movements
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1947
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Vauclain, Constant
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Symphony in one movement
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Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania
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