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DOUGLAS B. JOHNSON
Department of Music
Austin Arts Center, Room
103
Hartford CT 06114-2724
Trinity College
Hartford CT 06106-3 100
(860) 297-2201
EDUCATION
1989 University of
California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Composition
1984 University of
California, Berkeley, M.A., Music
1974 Humboldt
State University, B.A. cum laude, Music
1970-72 Hochschule für Musik und darstellende
Kunst, Vienna, completed six years of eight-year course in Composition
DISSERTATION
The Birthday of the Infanta,
one-act ballet score after Oscar Wilde;
Advisor, Professor Andrew Imbrie
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Trinity College, Hartford
1997-2000
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Music
1995-present Associate Professor
of Music
1989-95
Assistant Professor of Music
1988-89
Instructor in Music
University of California, Berkeley
1986-88
Instructor in Music
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Trinity College, Hartford
2000 Music
101, Basic Musicianship
Music 200, Composition
1999
Music 201, Theory III
Music 101, Basic Musicianship
Music 202, Theory IV
Music 497, Student-designed Senior Thesis Project
1998
Music 102, Applied Musicianship
Music 200, Composition
Music 201, Theory III
Music 399, Independent Study supervision:
Music Production
Technologies
Music 614, IDP Study Unit in Music Theory: Music
as Sounding Rhetoric
1997
Music 102, Applied Musicianship
Music 202, Theory IV
Music 201, Theory III
1996
Music 101, Basic Musicianship
Music 105, Chamber Ensembles
Music 201, Theory III
Music 399, Independent Study in Advanced Musicianship
Music 102, Applied Musicianship
Music 106, Chamber Ensembles
Music 121, Listening to Music
Music 200, Composition
Music 399, Independent Study in Composition (2 students)
1995
Music 106, Chamber Ensembles
Music 108, private violin lessons
Music 202, Theory IV
Music 213, History III
(Sabbatical Leave, Fall Semester)
1994
Music 101, Basic Musicianship
Music 105, Chamber Ensembles
Music 107, private violin lesson
Music 201, Theory III
Music 399, Independent Study in Composition (2 students)
Music 106, Chamber Ensembles
Music 108, private violin & viola lessons
Music 200, Composition
1993
(Academic Leave, Spring Semester)
Music 101, Basic Musicianship
Music 105, Chamber Ensembles
Music 107, private violin lessons
Music 20 1, Theory III
Music 213, History of Western Music III (*new course)
1992
Music 102, Applied Musicianship, a lab course in
instrumental and vocal conducting
and arranging
Music 106 Orchestra; one concert: Mendelssohn,
Athalia Overture and Symphony
#3, "Scotch";
Donizetti, Sinfonia (introduction to the Fountain
Scene)
Music 200, Composition, culminating in an end-of-semester
concert
Music 101, Basic Musicianship
Music 105, Chamber Ensemble Program (*new course); 9
ensembles: polychoral motets
and madrigals by
Praetorius and Vecchi; trio sonatas by
C.P.E.Bach, Quantz, Telemann, and
J.C.Bach;
piano trios by Mozart and Schumann; string
quartets
by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,
Shostakovich; wind quintets by Danzi, Haydn,
Beethoven; Casadesus harp quintet
Music 201, Theory III, 18th and 19th century practice
Music 399, Independent Study in Composition
1991
Music 102, Applied Musicianship (*new course)
Music 106, Orchestra; two concerts 1) Brahms, Traic
Overture and Beethoven, Piano
Concerto #5
"Emperor"
2) Mozart, Entführung aus dem
Serail,
Overture and Janissary Choruses; Verdi,
Nabucco Overture and chorus "Va pensiero";
Copland, The Tender Land. Chorus, "The
Promise of Living" (with the Trinity College
Concert Choir)
Music 107, private violin lessons
Music 202, Theory IV, late 19th and 20th century practice
(*new course)
Music 105, Orchestra; one concert: Mozart, Idomeneo,
Overture and Ballet Music; Debussy, Rapsodie
for alto saxophone and orchestra
Music 201, Theory III
1990
Music 105, Orchestra; two concerts: 1) Beethoven, Coriolan
Overture and Symphony #8;
Ives, Unanswered
Question; Gastoldi and Holborne, Consort
Pieces for Brass. 2) Concerto Concert
with Undergraduate Women Soloists, music of
Mozart, Beethoven and Chaminade.
Music 200, Composition (*new course), with end-of-semester
concert
Music 399 (=201), Theory III
Music 106, Orchestra; one concert: Glinka, Overture to
Ruslan
and Ludmilla and
Tchaikovsky,
Symphony #4
Music 108, Private Violin lesson
Music 201, Theory III
Music 107, Private Violin lessons
Music 399, Independent Study in Composition
Music 399, Independent Study on Heinrich Schenker
1989
Music 102, Theory 11
Music 106, Orchestra (*new course); founded the Trinity
College Community Orchestra; two concerts:
1) Schubert: Rosamunde Overture.
Trauermusik,.Six Minuets.
Opera excerpts.
Symphony #5. 2) Barber, First Essay; Milhaud,
Trois
Caprices; Copland, Music for the Theater
Music 105, Orchestra; one concert: Handel,
Rinaldo
excerpts and
Haydn, Symphony
#88
Music 325, Schubert and Musical Life in Biedermeier Vienna
Music 101, Theory I
Music 201, Theory III
Music 205, Listening to Music II, 19th Century Symphonic
Literature
1988
Music 101, Theory I
Music 201, Theory III
SERVICE
Trinity College,
Hartford
1988-2000 Member,
Individualized Degree Program Council
Member, Austin Arts Center Steering Committee
Member, InterArts Program Committee
Chair, Department of Music
1998
Member, General Education Council
1997
Member, General Education Council;
Member, Dean's Committee of Eight;
Chair, Department of Music
1996
Member, General Education Council
Member, Dean's Committee of Eight
1995
Member, General Education Council
1990-1994 Member,
Mathematics Advisory Committee
1992-1993 Member,
Academic Computing Advisory Committee
1991-1992
Member, General Education Council
1990
Member, Consortium Committee
1989-90
Member, Koeppel Center Sunday Series Committee
1989
Member, Puerto Rican Hurricane Relief Committee
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
1998-present,
Member, Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und Vervielfältlgungsrechte
(GEMA)
1996-present
Member, College Music Society
1994-present
Member, Society of Composers, Inc.
1988-1993
Member, American Association of University Professors
1985-present
Member, American Musicological Society
1985-1993
Member, Society for Music Theory
1990-93
Member, American Music Center
1984-87
Member, American Music Center
HONORS AND GRANTS
1994
Faculty Summer Research Grant, supporting the revision of the composition
Concert Overture for piano trio
1991
Gordon and Cynthia Morrill Endowment for Chamber Music, grant supporting performance of the Neruda
Fragments at a Faculty Showcase Concert, Trinity College
1987
Chevron Employees Fund Grant, for a
work commissioned by the Young People's Symphony Orchestra, Berkeley CA
1986
Distinguished Teaching Award,
University of California Academic Senate Christofolos Prize, U.C. Berkeley
Department of Music
1985/1986
University of California Regents
Fellowship
1985
Eisner Prize in Music, University of
California, Berkeley
1984
Distinguished Teaching Award,
University of California Academic Senate
1981/1983
California Meet-the-Composer
Grants, for works commissioned by the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Kent
Nagano, conductor
1975
Humboldt Foundation Grant, Humboldt
State University, Arcata, CA; Project: research and production of a
videotape on violin bowing techniques for use in orchestration classes
COMPOSITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2000
Four Songs on texts by Wally Swist,
for high voice and piano
1999
Il Terzodecimo Canto, Ralph Kenneth
Johnson (1914-1963) in memoriam, for
string quartet, premiered in
April, Faculty Showcase Recital Series, Trinity
College, Hartford, CT;
Boston premiere performance, January 31; The New
England String Ensemble Quartet
1998
To a Locomotive in Winter, for
baritone voice and piano, poem by Walt Whitman
Tre Canzoni per "Le Aguane" di P
D. Malvinni, for contralto voice and guitar, commissioned by
the author for
performances of his narrative reading in the province of the Trentino,
Italy
Fantasy on the American Folk Hymn,
"Land of Rest" for organ solo, performed in seven cities
in France, on tour with the
California Redwoods Chorale
1997
string quartet, work in progress (see
1999)
1996
four traveling musicians sit waiting
on the platform for their train as evening approaches for saxophone
quartet, premieres in Boston and Hartford, March 1997 by the Berlin
Saxophone Quartet; subsequent performances in Berlin at the Akademie der
schönen Künste, and live broadcast on Berlin Radio; released on a
BitMusik CD recording in fall 1998
1995
Angels... for electronic violoncello,
performed by Jeffrey Krieger, commissioned by Pedro Alejandro for his
choreography "Apparitions" for three dancers; premiered in May at Trinity
College Department of Theater and Dance concert, Frontiers of Hope;
subsequently performed in the Dancing Out Loud Series at the Educational Center
for the Arts in New Haven CT. A videodance, "Desperation and
Apparitions" made using the first movement of Angels... was presented in August 1995 at
El Festival Intemacional de Videodanza, in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and
performed in Santa Fe, NM with new live choreography, in March 1996
1994
Songs of Time, of Love, of Wonder for
contralto and pianoforte, commissioned by Elizabeth Anker; settings
of poems by May Sarton, Emily Dickinson, and a traditional Latvian Daina,
premiered in September at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge MA;
performed in October 1995 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and Dartmouth
College, NH; in February 1996 in Hartford; at St. Paul's Church in Natick, @
in November 1996; in the Zion Music Series at Zion Lutheran Church,
Oakland, CA in February, 1998; in the Composers, Inc. series at the Veteran's
Memorial Hall, San Francisco in February, 1999
Concert Overture, version for Piano Trio,
revision supported by a Trinity College Faculty Summer Research Grant
..and all the trees of the forest clap
their hands... for flute solo, commissioned by Jacqueline De Voe,
premiered in April at the New School of Music, Cambridge MA; revised in August,
re-recorded in Boston in September
1993
Two Essays for String Quartet 1:
Winter Landscape; 2: Parade in the Rain; premiered in May 1994 by the Sierra
String Quartet on an Earplay season concert at the Cowell Theater, San
Francisco CA; re-recorded in September in Oakland CA
1992
... at evening in the shadow of the
volcano. they are dancing... for piano solo, commissioned by Anthony
deBedts, premiered in March 1993 in Vienna, Austria
Tombeau de Tartini, for violoncello solo,
premiered in March at Trinity College Chapel, Susan Moses, violoncello
solo; subsequent performances in Milan and Naples, Italy; performed in
spring and summer 1993 in San Francisco and Lake Tahoe recitals by Emile
Miland; performed in February, 1996 at San Diego State University noon
concert series by Thomas Stauffer; in October, 1996 at Trinity College in a
new version for electric 'cello, by Jeffrey Krieger
1991
Suite from the Birthday of the Infanta,
performed in September in a Faculty Showcase Concert at Trinity
College, by members of the Hartford and New
Haven Symphonies, conducted by the composer
1990
Trio for Piano, Violin, and
Violoncello, commissioned by Charles Fulkerson,
Emeritus Professor of Music, Humboldt State University
1989
The Birthday of the Infanta, one-act
ballet score after Oscar Wilde, for
large orchestra
1988
Quartet: Neruda Fragments, revision of
1985 version; performed in March in the
Faculty Recital Series, Longy School of Music, Cambridge MA; and
in a Faculty Showcase Concert at Trinity College, September 1991
1987
Field Poem (Gary Soto), for Voice,
Violin, and Piano
Concert Overture,
comissioned by the Young People's Symphony Orchestra, Berkeley
CA, with grants from the Alameda County Arts Council, the Chevron Employees,
Fund, and California Meet the Composer; premiered in March
1986 Nothing Move
Thee, SATB motet on a
text of St. Teresa, commissioned by
Sylvia Ahern; performed at Evensong at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco in
October 1987
Thirteen Lines from Whitman, SATB Chamber
Chorus
1985
Psalm, Prayer, and Jubilus, trumpet
solo, commissioned by Laurie McGaw,
Associate Principal Trumpet, San Francisco Symphony; premiered at Grace
Cathedral in November
Das Immerdargehauchte, carillon; premiered in U.C. Berkeley Carillon Concert
Series, and repeated often at noon carillon concerts thereafter
Soliloquy,
Recitative/Metamorphosis, Whirling Dance, for horn and contrabass,
commissioned by Gary Lasley, bassist in the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra;
premiered in January, 1986 at the Brand Library, Glendale CA; subsequent
performances in Sacramento CA and at the Oregon Coast Music Festival,
Coos Bay, OR
Neruda Fragments, for contralto, violin,
bassoon, and harpsichord, commissioned
by the Baroque Arts Ensemble, San Francisco; performances in Berkeley,
San Francisco, and Mill Valley, CA
1984
Five Love Songs, (on texts by Walter
von der Vogelweide, Catullus, Updike,
Sappho, Rilke) SATB Chamber Chorus, commissioned by the San Francisco
Chamber Singers; premiered in June in San Francisco, Berkeley, and
Mill Valley
Even Egrets Err (Updike),
SSA children's chorus, commissioned by the Piedmont
Girls and Boys Chorus; performed in May, and in competition in Canada
in June
1983
Chamber Concerto, violin solo with
string orchestra; premiered in Angwin,
CA in August; subsequent performances: Berkeley Symphony, U.C. Berkeley
Symphony, San Francisco Chamber Players, Kato Havas International Festival,
Oxford, England; University of California Charter Day Ceremony, with
choreography, Duad, by David Wood, U.C. Dance Department; U.C. Dance
Theater; Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland;
International Dance Gala, Tyne Theater
and Opera House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Spolocenske Centrum, Czechoslovakia;
and at four venues in Paris, France
Missa Brevis, soprano and tenor soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, commissioned
by the Berkeley Symphony with a grant from Meet-the-Composer California,
premiered in March, and subsequently broadcast with a prefatory interview
on KQED-FM, San Francisco
1981
Music in the Shape of a Pinecone,
orchestra, commissioned by the Berkeley
Symphony with a grant from Meet-the-Composer California, premiered in
December, repeated in 1982 by the Oakland Symphony
Two
Preludes and Fugues for Two Violins
1980
Variations on the Name 'Egge' for
violin alone
PRESENTATIONS
1998
Scenarios, the Bushnell's Broadway
Lecture Series: "A Century and a Continent
Apart: La Boheme as a Model for Rent", invited lecture, the Bushnell
Auditorium, Hartford Five Colleges Learning in Retirement Program, Smith College, Northampton
MA: a day-long session "A Long Shadow
Cast: the influence of the operatic style
on other musical genres of 18th and 19th century music"
1996
Trinity Elderhostel Programs, Lake
Garda and Verona: a four-lecture series
on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi
Five Colleges Learning in Retirement Program,
Smith College, Northampton MA: a
day-long session on "The Role of the Heroine in Early Ottocento
Opera" Performed as viol player in
the Nutmeg Viol Consort in a concert of viol music
at the New England Chapter of the Viola da Gamba Society of America's
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Concert, Bellmont, MA
1995
Trinity College Women's Center Lecture
Series talk: "Words or Music - Who
Makes the Rules?" a colloquy about the composition and revision
process of the Songs of Time, of Love, of
Wonder, including the Hartford premiere
of the songs by contralto Elizabeth Anker and pianist Leslie Amper
Performed as viol player in the Nutmeg Viol
Consort in a concert of viol music at
the South Congregational Church, Hartford, CT Trinity
Elderhostel Programs, Lake Garda and Verona: a four-lecture series on
the operas of Giuseppe Verdi
1994
Trinity Elderhostel Program, Lake
Garda: Verdi series Five Colleges
Learning in Retirement Program, Smith College, Northampton, MA:
a day-long session on Verdi's Rigoletto
1993
Trinity Elderhostel Program, Lake
Garda: Verdi series
Trinity Faculty Lecture Series talk:
"Stalking the Virtuoso Piano: Composition,
Revision, Rehearsal, and Performance of ... at evening, in the
shadow
of the volcano, they are dancing... Vienna, March 1993, Anthony de Bedts,
piano solo" Performed as viol
player in the Nutmeg Viol Consort at a lecture by Professor
Bruce Bellingham, University of Connecticut for the New England Chapter
of the American Musicological Society, October, Yale University, New
Haven, CT
1992
Trinity Italian Elderhostel Program,
Lake Garda, Verona, Padua, and Rome
sites: Verdi series Trinity Symmetry
Study Group, two talks on aspects on Symmetry in Music
1991
Trinity Elderhostel Program, Lake
Garda and Verona: Verdi series
1990
Trinity Elderhostel Program, Lake
Garda and Verona: Verdi series Jones
Dorm talks on some fundamental similarities between music of the classical
and rock traditions
1989
Connecticut Public Radio interview on
the occasion of the visit to campus of
the Russian composer Vitaly Gewicksmann Interview
on commercial radio about the plans for the community orchestra
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