University Assistant

STEVEN BLOCK

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Los Lunas, New Mexico 87031 505-***-****

Born: New York City, November 5, 1952 Married, 7 children

Education

Eastman School of Music (study toward second Ph.D. in Music Theory)

All coursework completed in 1987

PhD Composition and Theory, U. of Pittsburgh 1981

MA Composition, University of Iowa 1975

BA Composition, Antioch University 1973

Also studied at: Accademia Chigiana - Siena, Italy 1972

Stanford University 1975-76

CUNY-Graduate Center 1976-78

Major Teachers

David Stock, Franco Donatoni, Donald Jenni, William Hibbard, Daniel Lentz, Henry Weinberg,

Robert Morris, Wayne Slawson, Luciano Berio, David Beach

Teaching Experience

University of New Mexico, full professor 2001-

University of New Mexico, associate professor 1995-01

University of New Mexico, assistant professor 1989-95

Northeastern Illinois University, asst. prof. 1987-89

Eastman School of Music, teaching fellow 1984-87

Community College Allegheny County (faculty) 1984

University of Pittsburgh (composition faculty) 1983-84

University of Pittsburgh (teaching fellow) 1979-81

Queens College (adjunct faculty) 1977-78

Stanford University (teaching fellow) 1975-76

University of Iowa (teaching assistant) 1973-75

Administrative Experience

Chair, Department of Music, University of New Mexico 1999 -

Associate Chair, University of New Mexico 1998-99

Chair, Composition-Theory, University of New Mexico 1991-99

Coordinator, UNM Composer's Symposium 1990-92, 1998-99

Professional Development

Management Development Program - Harvard University 2002

Study/Research Grants

Monroe Berger-Benny Carter Jazz Research Grant 1996

UNM Scholar Award 1993

Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship 1980-81

Composition and Theory Grants

Society for Music Theory - Publication Subvention Grant

1998

RAC Grant 1992, 1998

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Pennsylvania Council for the Arts 1983

Meet the Composer 1983,1984,1987,1991

Composition Awards

Charles Ives Center for American Music 1984

Leonard Bernstein Fellowship-Berkshire Music Center - Tanglewood 1983

Honorable Mention ISCM Piano Competition 1977

Runner Up, California Cello Club Competition 1976

Commissions

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, chamber works 1984, 1987

Barry Hannigan, solo piano sonata 1983

Pittburgh New Music Ensemble, anonymous donor, chamber 1982

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy 1982

Other Awards

Alumni Faculty Award for Teaching Achievement 1992

Related Experience

Accreditation Commission, National Association of Schools of Music 2009 -

Evaluation Team Chair, National Association of Schools of Music 2006 -

Nominating Committee, National Association of Schools of Music Dept. 2005

Content Advisory Committee, New Mexico Teacher Assessments

2004

Visiting Evaluator, National Association of Schools of Music 2003-06

Active Mediator (UNM Faculty Dispute Resolution, Bernalillo County Metro Court)

Basic and Advanced Training 2000 -

Leader/Reader Educational Testing Service (Advanced Placement Exam) 2006 -

Reader, Educational Testing Service (Advanced Placement Exams) 1998 - 2005

Reader (selector of papers), Society for Music

Theory, Rocky Mountain Conference 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001

Reader, music achievement (theory), Graduate Record Examination 1991

Reviewer, Schirmer Publishers 1991

Reviewer, William Brown Publishers 1988

Composition Panel, Pennsylvania Council for the Arts 1987

Reviews Editor, Integrales, Journal of Theory 1986-87

Music Critic, Market Square of Pittsburgh 1981-84

Ohio Arts Council Composition Panel 1984

Special Projects Panel, Pennsylvania Arts Council 1982-84

Judge, Friends of Harvey Gaul Composition Contest 1982-84

Editor, College Music Society Newsletter, Northeast 1982-84

Board, Secretary, Pittsburgh Composers Alliance 1981-84

Judge, Governor's School for the Arts 1980-81

Publications

Books: The Improvisor s Art: Free Jazz. Work-in-progress, Scarecrow Press, Institute of Jazz

Studies

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Articles in Refereed Journals:

2000 Music Library Notes, Fall 2000, Review of Walter Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: From

Revolver to Anthology, pp.159-161.

1997 Music Theory Spectrum, Fall 1997, Vol. 19, No.2, pp.206-231, Bemsha Swing: The

Transformation of a Bebop Classic to Free Jazz.

1994 Journal of Music Theory, Spring, 1994, Vol. 38, pp. 21-41, Vector Products and Intervallic

Weighting. Co-author, Jack Douthett.

1993 Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Vol. 6, 1993, pp. 229-52, Organized sound: pitch-class relations

in the music of Ornette Coleman.

1991 Integral, Vol. 5, 1991, pp. 101-23, Review of Michael Friedmann, Ear Training for

Twentieth-Century Music.

1990 Music Theory Spectrum, Vol. 12, no. 2, fall 1990 p. 181-202, Pitch-Class Transformation in Free

Jazz.

1987 Integral, Vol.1, 1987, p. 155-65, Review of Wayne Slawson, Sound Color.

1983 Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 21, 1982-1983, pp. 407- 409, George Rochberg: Progressive or

Master Forger.

1982 Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 20,1981-1982, pp. 592 - 599, The Making of a New Music

Ensemble.

Articles in Music Periodicals:

1987 Musical America, Vol. 107, 1987, pp. 40-42, Music Lives.

1983 High Fidelity/Musical America Edition Vol.33, Oct 1983, pp. MA30-31, The Making of a New

Music Ensemble.

Recordings

CD Recording of "Shadows," Steven Block

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra,

Robert Stankovsky, cond., MMC New Century, Vol. IX 2064 1999

CD Recording of "Between," Thomas DeLio: Steven Block, piano 1995

CD Recording of "Contrecoup," Thomas DeLio (Neuma): Steven Block, piano 1993

Lectures/Workshops

Financial Management for new music executives NASM Conference 2010

Mediation Training for Associate Deans NASM Conference 2007

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Society for Music Theory: Respondent and Chair of Special Session:

Jazz Compositional Structures and Improvisational Design 2000

Encuentro Internacional de Musicos, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico):

Conferencia Sobre Free Jazz 2000

Encuentro Internacional de Musicos, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico):

Taller Sobre Interpretacion de Free Jazz 2000

Society for Music Theory: Variation and Diminution Technique in Cecil

Taylor s Improvisation on Duke Ellington s Azure 1999

Society for Music Theory: Free Jazz in a Tonal/Modal Framework:

Origins of Style in John Coltrane s Offering 1998

UNM Composers Symposium: The Supremacy of Motive in

John Coltrane s Acknowledgement 1998

Society for Music Theory: "Intervallic Weighting and

Pitch Class Sets" 1991

Gallup Arts Council, UNM-Gallup: "The Russian String Quartet 1990

Society for Music Theory: "Pitch-Class Transformation

in Free Jazz 1988

College Music Society: "Pitch-Class Transformation in

the music of Ornette Coleman" 1988

Georgia Music Theorists Association: "Understanding

Free Jazz" 1987

Northeastern Illinois U., public lectures: "Problems

in Understanding the Music of Other Cultures" 1987,89

Duquesne University: "Music at the Turn of the

Century" 1984

Bucknell University: "Compositional Method in my

Piano Sonata" 1983

Performing Experience

Composer's Symposium, UNM 1991

Composer's Symposium, UNM 1990

Coorganized F.O.P. Ensemble at University of Iowa 1973-75

Organized F.O.P.- West at Stanford U. 1975-76

Organized F.O.P.- Pittsburgh 1979-81

F.O.P. Ensembles were dedicated to the performance of avant-garde, improvisatory, and theatrical music

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(performed works by Stockhausen, Cage, Kagel, Wolff, Feldman, Glokobar, Lentz, Riley, Reich, Nobre,

Fluxus)

Main Instrument: Piano

Popular Music Experience

Music Director, Company Cabaret 1983

2 published songs, Copper Press:

"Sarah" and "What is Cabaret" 1983

composed score for musical, "The Ballet Man" 1984-90

Church-Related Experience

organist and accompanist, St. Pius X Church,

Rochester, N.Y. 1985-87

accompanist for traditional, popular, and rock

music choirs, St. James Church, Chicago, Illinois 1987-89

music director, Ascension Parish, Albuquerque, NM

traditional, folk, and spanish choirs 1990-94

month-long workshop on vocal reading and solfege in

Church music 1991

workshop on liturgy for English-speaking choirs,

Portales, NM 1993

music director, Tridentine Latin Mass,

St. Thomas Aquinas Parish 1994-95

organist and accompanist, St. Anne Church, Albuquerque, NM 1995-00

music director, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Rite Church, Albuquerque, NM 2000

COMPOSITIONS

Duration Date Publisher

Large Scale Opera

The Tumbler of God, 3 acts 2-2 1/2 hrs. 1980-81 ACE

Broadway Theatre

The Ballet Man, 2 Acts 2-2 1/2 hrs. 1984-1991

Orchestra

Shadows 8 min. 1993 ACE

Phantasmagoria 10 min. 1987 ACE

Touching 5 min. 1974 ACE

Chamber Music

Five Plainchants for Clarinet 15 min. 2009 ACE

Piece in Two Parts for flute and harpsichord 10 min. 1997 ACE

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Quartet for oboe, clarinet, cello, and piano 30 min. 1993 ACE

String Quartet No.2 30 min. 1989 ACE

Rockin' Pneumonia; fl.,ob.,

cl.,pno., pcn., elec. vln., elec. vc. 8 min. 1984 ACE

Players (Court Dances); fl.,

ob.,cl., bn., elec. pno.,pcn. 21 min. 1982 ACE

Piano Sonata No.1 14 min. 1982 ACE

Thelonious Rex; cl., tpt.,

b.tbn., pno.,pcn., bass 15 min. 1982 ACE

Darkness Songs; fl., ob., pno., pcn., cello,

bass, optional narrator 20 min. 1980 ACE

Birthday Miniatures; ob. or

eb cl. and piano 5 min. 1980 ACE

String Quartet No. 1 20 min. 1979 ACE

FireTiger for violin and piano 10 min. 1977 ACE

Moaning Sea and Wind; fl., cl., tpt., pno.,

pcn., cello, bass, narrator 5 min. 1976 ACE

Chemical Wedding; 5 flutes,

tpt., hn., 2 tbn., pcn. 8 min. 1975 ACE

Sweet Soulless Solstice, solo fl. 7 min. 1975 ACE

Puttin' It Together, alto sax, soprano/tenor sax,

2 basses, trap-set 8 min. 1974 ACE

eveningspun/black, piano solo 15 min. 1973 ACE

Piece for Two Cellos 5 min. 1972 ACE

Choral/Vocal

Llama de Amor Viva (Living Flame of Love)

baritone and piano 7 min. 1991 ACE

Wedding Song (Bound by Affection)

soprano and piano 6 min. 1983 ACE

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Missa De Profundis; a cappella

SATB chorus 20 min. 1978-79 ACE

Four Songs from the Devil's Dictionary;

soprano, fl.,cl., bn., pcn., vln., va., cello 10 min. 1973

Electronic

Funhouse, 4-channel tape 8 min. 1979

Multiple Cannon, 4-channel tape 15 min. 1973

Other

Lentz's Piece (Radio City) for live electronics,

fl., organ, pcn., SATB chorus 5 min. 1973

Publisher

American Composer's Edition

170 W. 74th St.

New York, N.Y. 10023

WORKS PERFORMED BY:

Ensembles: Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Center for New Music - Iowa, Society for New

Music (Syracuse), Alea II, F.O.P. Ensemble, Helios String Quartet, Slovak Radio Symphony

Orchestra

Universities: University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, Antioch, Stanford,

CUNY - Graduate Center, U. of Iowa, U. of Pittsburgh, Oberlin, various Universities in

Pennsylvania and New York

Other: American Cultural Center (Paris), Barry Hannigan (piano), Pittsburgh Dance Alloy,

Seymour Group (Australia), Brad Ellingboe (baritone), Myron Nadel (theatrical producer)

Broadcast by: WQED-FM, Pittsburgh, WQED-TV, Pittsburgh, KHFM, Albuquerque

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