Sound designer, film and game composer, conductor
Resume:
CYRIL GEORGE DEACONOFF
Oakland, CA 94605
*****.*********@****.***
www.cyrildeaconoff.com
www.voices-sv.org
EDUCATION
Post-secondary:
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Technology and Applied Composition, Professional Studies Diploma (Completed in May of 2019). Sound design, recording, mixing, scoring for films and video games. Clint Bajakian, composition teacher
Robert Gatley, Mixing/Sound editing teacher
Jason McConell, Sound Recording teacher
Mike Morasky and Dren McDonald, Sound Design/Mixing teachers Matt Levine, TAC Composition workshop teacher
Academy Acanthes @ IRCAM (Institute for Research in Acoustic and Electronic Music), Paris, France June 15 – July 1 2015, Music Composition studies with Michael Jarrell, Luca Francesconi and Mauro Lanza
Academy Acanthes @ IRCAM, Paris, June 15 – July 2 2012
• under the direction of Thierry De Mey, Luca Francesconi, Mauro Lanza and Philippe Manoury
Organ studies with Robert Gurney and Jonathan Dimmock, 2011-2015 College/Conservatory:
Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, IN, USA. (2000-2006) Doctoral degree in Music (the degree was conferred on December 16, 2006). First minor field in music history, second minor in voice and composition. Elective studies in organ performance. G.P.A. 3.87. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia (1994-2000) Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Choral Conducting with Honors, June 2000 Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Composition, June 1999
• Prof. Stanislav Kalinin, primary conducting teacher
• Prof. Roman Ledeniov, primary composition teacher Gnesine Music College, Moscow, Russia (1990-1994)
Associate degree with Honors in Music Theory, June 1994 DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATIONS PROFICIENCY
Logic Pro X
Pro Tools
Ableton Live
Audacity
GAME AUDIO IMPLEMENTATION
Wwise
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
Max/Msp
MEDIA PROJECTS AT SFCM
Lucas Films/SFFilm: Film score for To Rest In Peace SONY Playstation: Headwinds video game soundtrack
Pepsi commercial music score
Tang company music score
GAME DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE
Presentation of my Sound Design and Game Audio projects, Moscone Center, San Francisco April 2019
MUSIC NOTATION SOFTWARE
Sibelius
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching duties at Monterey Peninsula College include: Conductor of MPC College Choir
Instructor of MUS 10C and MUS 11, Music Theory and Sight Singing courses Teaching duties at Indiana University included:
Instructor of F531, Score Reading/Aural Skills I and F533, Advanced Score Reading/Aural Skills I (graduate course)
Director of Choirs duties at Carroll College included: Instructor of MUS 562, The Carroll Chorale (lab ensemble for the upper-division conducting students)
Instructor of MUS 353, Choral Methods and Literature Associate Instructorships at Indiana University:
Fall 2001-May 2003: Instructor of G370 (undergraduate conducting course). Spring 2001: assistant to Dr. Michael Schwartzkopf for G372 (undergraduate choral conducting).
Duties at the Summer Slavic Workshop included:
Conductor of the Russian and Slavic choir at the workshop (choral ensemble of non-music majors, undergraduate and graduate students) Student-teaching duties at Moscow Conservatory and Gnesine Music College included:
giving private conducting and composition lessons
teaching music history and sight singing at middle- and high-school levels EMPLOYMENT
August 2017 – present: Adjunct Faculty, Monterey Peninsula College, Music Department January 2016 – 2017: Instructor, Santa Rosa Junior College, Community Education Department
August 2016-present: Music Director/Organist, St. Elizabeth Catholic Church, San Francisco, CA
September 2014 – present: Artistic Director, Voices of Silicon Valley December 2007-2015: Assistant Conductor, Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale, San Jose, California
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Game Audio Network Guild
ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) American Guild of Organists
American Choral Directors Association
College Music Society
Chorus America
PUBLICATIONS
Review of The Last Tycoon performance by West Edge Opera, published by the San Francisco Classical Voice on February 27, 2018.
Preview of Voices of Silicon Valley’s Stimmung performance by Joshua Kosman published in San Francisco Chronicle on May 11, 2017. Preview of VOSV premiere of “Moms of Silicon Valley” by Monica Houghton published by Univision, Spanish language publication on May 29, 2015. Northern Tale, for unaccompanied chorus. Composed in 1999. Published by E. C. Schirmer.
Canticles of Love, Despair and Hope, cantata for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra. Composed in 2006. Published by E. C. Schirmer.
Symphonic Parallels, concert overture for orchestra. Composed in 2007. Published by E. C. Schirmer.
Several reviews in Vallejo Times Herald highlighting professional accomplishments with the Vallejo Choral Society: 2008-2012.
AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
* String Quartet No. 1 selected by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra for their presentation of contemporary music, 2008
* Gloria commissioned by the Vallejo Choral Society, 2008
* The Last Tycoon, a current opera project, commissioned by the Arts Council Silicon Valley as part of a collaboration project with the West Bay Opera, 2008
* Biography published in Chancellor’s List, 2005-2006
* Moscow Mayor’s Scholarship, 1997-2000
* Two Choruses for Children’s Voices awarded second prize at the Pushkin Composition contest and subsequently performed at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, 1998
* Medal of Merit from Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception, Moscow, Russia, for performances with the Youth Choir of the Radost Children’s Choral School, in recognition of my contribution to the parish’s cultural life LANGUAGES
Russian (speak, read, write)
Spanish (speak, read)
French (read)
Italian (read)
REFERENCES
Clint Bajakian, Professor of Technology and Applied Composition, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102; *********@****.*** Dr. Jan Harrington, Former chair of the Choral Department, Indiana University School of Music, 1201 E 3
rd
Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-7006; 812-***-****; ********@*******.***
Rev. Matthew Woodward, Rector, Transfiguration Episcopal Church, 3900 Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, CA 94403; 650-***-****; *******@********-**.*** Prof. John Poole, former conductor of BBC Singers, former member of the Choral Department faculty, Indiana University School of Music, 1201 E 3 rd
Street, Bloomington,
IN 47405-7006; ****.********@******.**
Dr. Carmen Tellez, Former Choral Faculty and Director of the Latin American Music Center, Indiana University School of Music, 1201 E 3 rd
Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-
7006; 574-***-****; ********@*****.***
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