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Roger Zahab

born January *, ****, Akron Ohio

addresses:

*** ***** ****** ********** ** Pittsburgh

Akron Ohio 443**-****-*** Music Building

home tel: 330-***-**** 4337 Fifth Ave

Pittsburgh PA 15260

office tel: 412-***-****

email: abpx2q@r.postjobfree.com website: www.rogerzahab.net

Education:

State University of New York at Stony Brook 1978-80 violin performance MM

University of Akron, Ohio 1974-78 violin performance BM

Professional Training:

Violin studies with Vincent Frittelli, Carla Spannbauer, Paul Biss, John Graham, Hiroko Yajima

and Paul Zukofsky

Chamber music with John Graham

Other chamber music studies with Samuel Baron and Charles Rosen

Baroque and classical performance with David Schulenberg

Contemporary practice with Arthur Weisberg

Consultations with the following composers on their work:

John Cage, Aaron Copland, David Del Tredici, Vivian Fine, Lee Hyla, Andrew Imbrie, Ben

Johnston, Steven Mackey, Ursula Mamlok, Eric Moe, Mathew Rosenblum, Gunther Schuller,

Tison Street, and Judith Weir - among many others

Academic Experience:

from 1993 University of Pittsburgh, Director of Orchestra

Theory and orchestration instructor

Instructor of violin and viola

1993-99 Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, Instructor of violin and viola

1988-01 University of Akron, Founder and Director of the

New Music Group/Daedalus

Commissions: please see work list

Performances: please see violinist and conductor lists

Selected Honors and Awards:

Louis Lane Scholarship (given by the Akron Symphony Orchestra,) 1978

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant, 1995

Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, 2005

Recordings of compositions:

Fall/Return for guitar; James Marron, guitar Spring Rising, released 1998

Doubles Keening for wind quintet; Pennsylvania Quintet -Centaur

your offending kiss for wind quintet; Solaris -Capstone

Doubles Keening for wind quintet; Solaris Quintet -Capstone

The Earth's Jig and Silence Orchids for piano; Bennett Lerner, piano - Music by

my Friends -Albany Records, TROY 695/96

levitation of pianos during a waltz; Eric Moe, piano - New Waltzes for Piano

Albany Records, TROY 689

Recordings as performer:

Blue Air by Eric Moe; performed by Roger Zahab, violin and Eric Moe, piano

on the recording Up and At 'Em -Albany

Thirteen Harmonies by John Cage & Verging Lightfall by Roger Zahab

performed by Roger Zahab, violin and Eric Moe, piano, harpsichord and organ

Koch International Classics, 1995

Six Melodies Variation by Christian Wolff in the two-disc set: A Chance Operation- tribute to

John Cage - Koch International Classics, 1993

Stubborn Beauties: works for violin by Charlillo, Mackey, Macbride, Mamlok, Dennis Riley and

Zahab - Truemedia Records Ltd., 1993

Bolga Sonata by J.H. Kwabena Nketia;

performed by Roger Zahab, violin and Robert Frankenberry, piano (in preparation)

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