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My day job is at the Center for Professional & Organizational Development at Montgomery College (Rockville MD.) where I'm a Multimedia Instructional Design Specialist, Flash application developer, and Webmaster. I retired in 2004 from a twenty-five year career as a Professor of Music (Williams College and The College of William and Mary.) I taught music composition & theory, computer-music, music cognition, jazz history, a workshop Black expressive culture, and directed Jazz Ensembles as well as the William and Mary Shakuhachi Dojo (shakuhachi is the Japanese bamboo flute). I'm currently working toward my Shihan (i.e. teaching/master title) in shakuhachi and performing when I can.
More about Music: I have performed shakuhachi with the Washington Toho Koto Society and currently study shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin and occasionally with Yodo Kurahashi II – both Grand Masters of the shakuhachi. My performances include The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Museum, The Gildenhorn Recital Hall of the University of Maryland, Chrysler Hall in Norfolk VA, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Japanese Information and Cultural Center of Washington DC, and the Annual Washington DC Cherry Blossom Festival. In my late 20s and 30s I also performed professionally as a jazz saxphonist with The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and later with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, The Harris Simon Quartet, and The Berkshire Big Band. My original compositions and scores can be purchased from Dorn Publications and Arizona University Records, my computer-music programs are published by MIT Press in The Csound Book, and my audio recordings are available from Starkland (distributer of Owl Recordings), Arizona University Records (at Amazon.com), and Equilibrium Records (at Amazon.com).
I live in Gaithersburg MD. Over the last five years my interest in photography has eclipsed my previous passion for videography. Last year I moved up from using the point-and-shoot Nikon Coolpix 8700 to the Nikon D300 DSLR and am in the process of learning how to create more serious photos. My basic workflow is RAW to Lightroom, to Photomatix, to Photoshop. Lenses include the Sigma 18-200mm, the Sigma 10-20mm Ultra-wide F4-5.6, the Nikon 50mm AF f1.4 D, and a newly acquired Tamron SP 90mm f/2.8 Di 1:1 Macro with a Kenko extension tube set.
My day job is at the Center for Professional & Organizational Development at Montgomery College (Rockville MD.) where I'm a Multimedia Instructional Design Specialist, Flash application developer, and Webmaster. I retired in 2004 from a twenty-five year career as a Professor of Music (Williams College and The College of William and Mary.) I taught music composition & theory, computer-music, music cognition, jazz history, a workshop Black expressive culture, and directed Jazz Ensembles as well as the William and Mary Shakuhachi Dojo (shakuhachi is the Japanese bamboo flute). I'm currently working toward my Shihan (i.e. teaching/master title) in shakuhachi and performing when I can.
More about Music: I have performed shakuhachi with the Washington Toho Koto Society and currently study shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin and occasionally with Yodo Kurahashi II – both Grand Masters of the shakuhachi. My performances include The Kennedy Center, The Smithsonian Museum, The Gildenhorn Recital Hall of the University of Maryland, Chrysler Hall in Norfolk VA, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Japanese Information and Cultural Center of Washington DC, and the Annual Washington DC Cherry Blossom Festival. In my late 20s and 30s I also performed professionally as a jazz saxphonist with The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and later with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, The Harris Simon Quartet, and The Berkshire Big Band. My original compositions and scores can be purchased from Dorn Publications and Arizona University Records, my computer-music programs are published by MIT Press in The Csound Book, and my audio recordings are available from Starkland (distributer of Owl Recordings), Arizona University Records (at Amazon.com), and Equilibrium Records (at Amazon.com).
