Catharine
Mills Davis Professor of Music
Education:
B.A., Amherst College; M.M., D.M.A., Yale University School of Music
Courses
Offered at Wellesley: 213 (Twentieth-Century Techniques), 235/335
(Topic: Cold War Modern), 275 (Computer Music: Synthesis Techniques
and Compositional Practice), 300 (Topics: The Future of Music Theory,
Music of Elliott Carter), 313 (Twentieth-Century Analysis and Composition),
314 (Tonal Composition)
Biographical
Information: Commissions and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation,
American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts,
and Fromm Foundation for Music at Harvard. Compositions for voices and
instruments, including two chamber operas, Heart of a Dog and Earth
Studies. Other recent commissions by the Boston Musica Viva, CrossSounds
Festival, Portland Chamber Music Festival, Collage New Music, and the
Fleet Boston Celebrity Series. Publications about contemporary music
have appeared in such journals as The Musical Quarterly, Perspectives
of New Music, and The Journal of Music Theory. Works for film and television,
and collaborations on projects to promote contemporary music, including
a US-USSR composers exchange in the 1980s and the Seminar on Musical
Culture at the Harvard Center for Literary and Cultural Studies in the
1990s. Currently President of the Stefan Wolpe Society, a member of
the Board of Directors of the Composers Conference and Chamber Music
Center. In Fall 2001, named Paul Fromm Composer in Residence at the
American Academy in Rome.
