Ralf Yusuf Gawlick

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Ralf Yusuf Gawlick

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  • Home
  • Contact Me
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Musical Works
    • Discography
    • Representative Works
    • Selected Concerts
  • Reviews–Media coverage
    • Reviews–Media Coverage
    • Files
  • Gallery
    • San Francisco, CA, USA
    • New York, NY, USA
    • Boston, MA, USA
    • Poznań, Poland
    • Vienna, Austria
    • Germany
    • Kraków, Poland

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Boston College

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Curriculum Vitae

Work

Boston College Music Department 

408A Lyons Hall 

140 Commonwealth Ave.

 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

 (617) 552-2514 gawlicra@bc.edu

Education

  • New England Conservatory of Music, Boston MA Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, 2001 
  • University of Texas at Austin Master of Music in Composition, 1994 
  • University of California at Santa Barbara Bachelor of Music in Composition, cum laude, 1991 
  • Studies at the Music Academy in Lodz, Poland, 1991-92 & the Hochschule für Musik and darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, 1989-90 
  • Seminars, Forums, and Masterclasses: Kronos Quartet ~ Gunther Schuller ~ Michael Colgrass ~ William Kraft ~ Donald Erb ~ Franco Donatoni Principal Composition Teachers Malcolm Peyton (NEC) ~ Elliott Antokoletz (UT Austin) ~ Jerzy Bauer (Music Academy in Lodz, Poland) ~ Carolyn Bremer (UCSB) ~ Kurt Schwertsik (Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst)

Teaching Experience

  • Professor, Boston College, Boston MA, Fall 2022 – present. Theory, Composition and Musicology courses in the Department of Music 
  • Associate Professor, Boston College, Boston MA, Fall 2014 – Spring 2022  Theory, Composition and Musicology courses in the Department of Music
  • Assistant Professor, Boston College, Boston MA, Fall 2008 – Spring 2014 Theory, Composition and Musicology courses in the Department of Music 
  • Lecturer, Boston College, Boston MA, Fall 2000 – Spring 2008, Theory and Musicology courses in the Department of Music 
  • Adjunct Faculty, Northeastern University, Boston MA, Spring 2000-Spring 2003  Theory, Composition and Musicology courses in the Department of Music 
  • Adjunct Faculty, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA, Spring 1998-Spring 2002 Musicology Courses  
  • Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 1993 Ear-Training in the Department of Music 

List of Works

Works–self published unless stated otherwise


Compositions


  • Bobby ~ Tombeau for an Artist op.23 (2022) Solo cello, 7 minutes.
  • O Lungo Drom op.22 (2020-2021) Soprano, Baritone, Flute, Clarinet, Cimbalom,  Piano, String Quartet, 66 min.  (Texts drawn from Maya, Mãnuš, Schöpf, Iliaz, Makhotin,  Stojka, Haliti, Smith, Krasnici, Lagrene, Papusza, Loleshyte,  Maximoff) Commissioned by the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien  
  • Herzliche Grüße Bruno ~ Briefe aus Stalingrad (Eine musikalische Gedenkstätte) op.21 (2017-2018) Baritone, 2 Pianos, Sound Montage, 53 min.  
  • Imagined Memories (Bîranînên Xeyalî) op.20 (2014 - 2016) String Quartet, 46 min. Commissioned by the Hugo Wolf Quartet  
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände) op.19 (2012-2013) Soprano, Guitar, 55 min. Commissioned by Anne Harley and the Rose Augustine Foundation 
  •  Sorores (Frauenpartita) op.18 (2011) Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Violin , Cello, 26 min. Commissioned by Etoile Productions and Boston College  
  • Suscipe Domine op.17a (2011) Alto, Violin, Cello, 9 min. (Text: St. Ignatius) Commissioned by T. Frank Kennedy, S.J., and the Jesuit Institute, Boston College  
  • Quando il Fiume Giallo si acchiararà (Frammenti ricciani) op.17 (2011) Alto, Violin, Cello, 28 min. (Text: Matteo Ricci and St. Ignatius) Commissioned by Jeremy Clarke, S.J., Boston College  
  • Missa gentis humanæ op.16 (2008-2010) Eight-voice a cappella chorus (CCAATTBB), 53 min. (Texts drawn from the Ordinary of the Mass, Borges, Virgil, Brecht, Dostoevsky, Plautus, Herbert, Scott and the Gospel of St. John) Commissioned by Michael Noone and Ensemble Plus Ultra Published by ECS Publishing, Boston, MA 
  • Berlin Suite op.15 (2009) String Quartet, 26 min. Commissioned by the German Embassy (Washington D.C.) and Boston College
  • Ich schreite kaum… op.14 (2006-2007) Small Orchestra, 11 min. Commissioned by Kirk Trevor and the Missouri Symphony Orchestra  
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata) op.13 (2004-2005) Children’s Choir, Sanctus bells, Clarinet, String Trio (Vln,Vla,Vc), Organ, 38 min. (Text: Bertolt Brecht) Commissioned by Jacek Sykulski and the Poznan Boys Choir Published by ECS Publishing, Boston, MA  
  • Zrodlo (The Source) op.12 (2004) Soprano Solo, Chorus (SATB), Large Orchestra, 12 min. (Text: Karol Woytyla) Commissioned by the Moniuszko Society  
  • Glocken-Spiel op.11 (2004) Piano Quartet, 16 min. 
  • …de la mas sabrosa y agradable vida… op.10 (2003) Large Orchestra, 16 min. Commissioned by Max Hobart and the Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra  
  • At the still point of the turning world op.9 (2001-2002) Solo Cello, 14-50 min. (variable durations attributed to formal possibilities) Commissioned by Composers in Red Sneakers

              Chamber Triptych opp.6-8:

  • Sonata-Mazur (Aus der Ferne…) op.8 (2000-2001) Violin and Piano, 25 min.  
  • Concerto Concertante per Sei Instrumenti op.7 (1998-1999) 2 Pianos and String Quartet, 27 min.  
  • Mysteriun doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz) op.6 (1996-1997) Solo Piano, 21 min. Published by Brazinmusikanta Publications, Amityville, NY  
  • An die Nachgeborenen (3) op.5 (1995) Low male voice, 3 Oboes, 3 Tenor Trombones, String Trio (vln, vla, vc), 15 min. (Text: Bertolt Brecht)  
  • Sinfonietta op.4 (1994) Chamber Orchestra, 25 min.  
  • Trio op.3 (1993) Violin, Cello, Piano, 18 min.  
  • Treny op.2 (1993) Baritone and Piano (Text: Jan Kochanowski) 20 min.  
  • Satz für Streichquartett op.1 (1992) String Quartet, 11 min.  


Music for Film 


  • Music for “Dziad i Baba” (DVD) – Independent animation film by Basia Goszczynska (2011), 7 min.
  • Music (Berlin Suite) for “Berlin Holocaust Memorial” (DVD) – film documentary by John Michalczyk for Jacques Salmanowitz Program (2010), 4 min. 
  • Music (Berlin Suite) for “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall” (DVD) – film documentary by John Michalczyk and Ronald Marsh (2009), 57 min.

Publishers

  • ECS Publishing

              138 Ipswich St. Boston, MA 02215-3534 

  • Brazinmusikanta Publications

              73 Ireland Place – Suite 108
              Amityville, New York 11701

audio and visual recordings

  • O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) – Decca Eloquence (Australia) [CAT #487 5556] - 2024
  • Herzliche Grüße Bruno ~ Briefe aus Stalingrad – Musica Omnia [MO 0712] – 2019
  • Imagined Memories (Bîranînên Xeyalî) – Musica Omnia [MO 0704] - 2016
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände) – Musica Omnia [MO 0702 CD & DVD] - 2015
  • Kinderkreuzzug- Chorakademie Dortmund - 2014
  • Missa gentis humanæ [MO 0605] - 2014
  • At the still point of the turning world [MO 0603] - 2013
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände) - 2013
  • Sorores (Frauenpartita) - 2011
  • Music for “Dziad i Baba” (DVD) – Independent animation film by Basia Goszczynska - 2011
  • Quando il Fiume Giallo si acchiararà (Frammenti ricciani) - 2011
  • Kinderkreuzzug- Musica Omnia [MO 0406] - 2010
  • Solo and Chamber Works – Musica Omnia [MO 0309] - 2010
  • Berlin Suite - 2010
  • Music for “Berlin Holocaust Memorial” (DVD) – film documentary by John Michalczyk for Jacques Salmanowitz Program - 2010
  • Music for “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall” (DVD) – film
  • documentary by John Michalczyk and Ronald Marsh – 2009
  • Concerto Concertante per Sei Instrumenti – Capstone Records [CPS-8712] - 2003

Collaborations

  • “Art and its Perversion” – lecture presentation and panelist in international conference entitled Hitler’s  Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust organized by John Michalczyk. Sponsors: Bryant University, Center  for German and European Studies (Brandeis University), Institute for the Liberal Arts, Center for Human  Rights and International Justice, BC Law School /Holocaust Project, Jewish Studies Program, Film Studies  Program, Woods College of Advancing Studies, Jacques Salmanowitz Program, German Studies  Department, Office of International Programs, Music Department, Winston Center, Faith, Peace and Justice  Program, BC Hillel, Art, Art History and Film Department, Library of Social Science, Winston Center for  Leadership and Ethics, International Studies, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2019 
  • “Tadeusz Kantor – A Brief Topography of Representation”, organizer of a four-day lecture/screening series devoted to the work of Tadeusz Kantor presented by Michal Kobialka, Boston College Scholar-in-Residence, in conjunction with the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Film Studies/Fine Arts Departments, History Department, Psychology Department and Music Department., Chestnut Hill, MA, November, 2018
  • “Keyboard Landscapes: Visions of Modernity”, organizer, included 3 concert lectures and masterclass by German pianist Moritz Ernst, in conjunction with the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Fine Arts Department, History Department, German Studies Department, Jewish Studies Department, Music Department and Terezin Music Foundation, Chestnut Hill, MA, October, 2017
  • “The Kurdish Question: Ethnicity, Identity and Integration” organizer, symposium including musical performance, key-note presentations by Kani Xulam and panel discussions at Boston College in conjunction with the Institute for the Liberal Arts, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Provost, Music Department, Film Studies/Fine Arts Departments, Near Eastern Studies, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures, History Department, Political Science Department, Theology Department, Program for Islamic Civilizations and Societies and the St. Thomas More Society, Chestnut Hill, MA, April, 2016
  • “Kollwitz-Connection Artistic, Social, and Gender Commentary in the Life and Works of Käthe Kollwitz”, organizer, symposium including musical performances, exhibitions, presentations and panel discussions at the Goethe Institute and Boston College in conjunction with the Goethe Institute, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Music and Fine Arts Departments, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, German Studies Department, Bapst Library, Burns Library, Boston Public Library Prints Department, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin, Chestnut Hill and Boston, MA, Germany, April, 2013
  • “Children and Conflict in a Changing World”, project originator and initial coordinator/liaison between the author Ishmael Beah (“A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”) and the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice and the BC Arts & Social Responsibility Project, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, February 2012
  • “Binding Friendship: Ricci, China and Jesuit Cultural Learnings”, music (Quando il Fiume Giallo si acchiararà [Frammenti ricciani]) for the book exhibit and seminar series, in conjunction with the Jesuit Institute, Institute for the Liberal Arts, the History Department and Asian Studies, Boston College, March 2011 – October 2011
  • “In the Realm of Brecht: Weimar and the Arts Today”, organizer, symposium including musical and theater performances and panel discussions at the Goethe Institute and Boston College in conjunction with the Goethe Institute, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Theater and Fine Arts Departments, the Office of International Programs and the Office of Marketing and Communications, Chestnut Hill and Boston, MA, April, 2010
  • “Twentieth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall” Lecture and Film Series including “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, in conjunction with the Institute of Liberal Arts, Film Studies/Fine Arts Departments, German and History Departments, and the Lowell Lecture Series, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, October 2009 – November 2009

Fellowships, Awards, and Prizes

  • Recipient, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals, 2024
  • 3rd Place, The American Prize in Music Composition, Vocal Chamber Music, 2020
  • Global Music Awards, Imagined Memories chosen for Best of the Best: Top Albums of the Year 2019  
  • Winner, Global Music Award, 2019; Imagined Memories chosen for Top Ten Albums Summer 2019 
  • Winner, The American Prize in Music Composition, Vocal Chamber Music, 2018
  • Finalist, The American Prize in Music Composition, Choral Music, 2017
  • Winner, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Music Composition, 2015 
  • Finalist, Red Note New Music Festival International Composition Competition, 2014
  • Prize-Winner, 1st Karol Szymanowski International Composition Competition, 2012
  • Winner, Global Music Award, 2012 Winner, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Music Composition, 2009
  • Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grants for Composers, 2007
  • Finalist, EARPLAY Donald Aird Memorial International Composers Competition, 2005
  • Finalist, Auros International Composition Competition, 2005
  • Selected composer representing the United States at the 2005 ISCM World Music Days in Zagreb, 2004
  • Winner, American Composers Orchestra Whitaker New Music Reading Sessions, 2004
  • American selection at the 1st festival of Contemporary Art in Kosice, Slovakia 2003
  • American Music Center Margaret Fairbanks Award, 2003
  • Music at the Anthology (MATA) NYC festival, 2001
  • Winner, SCI National Recording Competition, 2000
  • 2nd Prize, Britten-on-the-Bay International Piano Composition Competition, 2000
  • Musical Boston in the 1990s Festival, 2000
  • Winner, 1st Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) Composition Contest, 1999
  • Winner, ASCAP Awards to Young Composers, 1998
  • Winner, ASCAP Awards to Young Composers, 1996
  • Finalist, 1 of 33 nation-wide composers competing for ASCAP Foundations Awards that commissions new orchestral works, 1995
  • Finalist, ASCAP Awards to Young Composers, 1991
  • 1st Prize, Chamber Category of Corwin Composition Contest, 1991
  • Presidential Undergraduate Fellowship Award (UCSB), 1990
  • 1st Prize, Unicef Composition Contest, 1987

grants

  • Anspach Foundation Grant, FL, 5/2016; 12/2017; 12/2018; 12/2019; 12/2020; 12/2021; 12/2022; 12/2023
  • The Augustine Foundation, New York, NY, 12/2012; 11/2014
  • Paquesi Famly Fund, Chestnut Hill, MA, 6/2011
  • Arts and Social Responsibility Project, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1/2010; 10/2011
  • Dean’s Office, Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1/2010; 11/2014; 12/2014; 2/2016, 5/2016; 6/2016; 5/2018; 11/20; 10/21; 3/22; 5/22; 10/22
  • Institute for the Liberal Arts, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 1/2010; 3/2011; 10/2011; 4/2012; 2/2015; 5/2015; 5/2017; 10/2017; 11/2017, 1/2019; 1/2022; 4/2022; 11/2022
  • Jesuit Institute, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 12/2009; 3/2011; 10/2011
  • Newton Cultural Council (local chapter of Massachusetts Cultural Council), Newton, MA, March 2010
  • Office of the Provost, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 10/2004; 10/2008; 2/2009; 10/2011; 5/2012; 11/2012; 4/2013; 11/2013; 11/2015; 10/2016; 10/2017; 2/2018; 5/2018

Presentations/Workshops/Festivals/Panels

  • Monadnock Music Speaker Series, presenter, Harrisville, NH, August 2021 
  • Monadnock Music Speaker Series, presenter, Peterborough, NH, October 2019 
  • Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Prelude to the Holocaust, presenter, Chestnut Hill, April 2019
  • Slemani International Film Festival, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, October 2017
  • Keyboard Landscapes: Visions of Modernity, presenter, Chestnut Hill, MA, October 2017
  • The Kurdish Question: Ethnicity, Identity and Integration, panelist, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2016
  • Boston GuitarFest X ‘The Eternal Feminine’ Performance Competition Juror, Boston, MA, June 2015
  • Boston GuitarFest IX ‘American Odyssey’ Performance Competition Juror, Boston, MA, June 2014
  • Composer-in-Residence, included symposium presentation, guest lecturing, and performance of Kollwitz-Konnex, Scripps College, CA, March 2014
  • Boston Early Music Festival, Musica Omnia delegate, Boston, MA, June 2011 & 2013
  • “Word, Image, Sound: The Compositional Fabric of the Song-Cycle Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände)”, lecture from the symposium “Kollwitz-Connection Artistic, Social, and Gender Commentary in the Life and Works of Käthe Kollwitz”, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2013
  • “Word, Image, Sound: The Compositional Fabric of the Song-Cycle Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände)”, lecture and panel discussion from the symposium “Kollwitz-Connection Artistic, Social, and Gender Commentary in the Life and Works of Käthe Kollwitz”, The Goethe Institute, Boston, MA, April 2013
  • “Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art, panelist alongside Gunther Schuller, Veronika Jochum and John Sallis, McMullen Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, MA, October 2012
  • Visiting Professor, “Music of the 20th Century: Europe and Beyond”, course for the International Summer School Program of the University of Vienna, Strobl, Austria, August 2012 “Brecht’s Kinderkreuzzug: A Composer’s Reflection”, lecture at the International Summer School Program University of Vienna, Strobl, Austria, August 8, 2012
  • “Spoken to Sung: A Composer’s Path from Conception to Realization in Musical Text-Setting”, lecture for the seminar “Junior Scholars in Conversation” sponsored by the Jesuit Institute, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, February 2012
    Integrating Sustainability into the BC Curriculum, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, May 2011
  • Quando il Fiume Giallo si acchiararà (Frammenti ricciani), Lecture and Concert, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2011
  • Quando il Fiume Giallo si acchiararà (Frammenti ricciani), 4th De Bosis Colloquium in Italian Studies, Harvard University, MA, April 2011
  • “Binding Friendship: Ricci, China and Jesuit Cultural Learnings”, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, March 2011
  • Artist Fellowship Music Composition Panel, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA, December 2010
  • “Brecht’s Kinderkreuzzug: A Composer’s Reflection”, lecture at the Boston College Arts Festival from the symposium “In the Realm of Brecht: Weimar and the Arts Today”, Chestnut Hill, April 2010
  • “Brecht’s Kinderkreuzzug: A Composer’s Reflection”, lecture as part of the panel discussion “Art in the Age of Economic Crisis” from the symposium “In the Realm of Brecht: Weimar and the Arts Today”, The Goethe Institute, Boston, MA, April 2010
  • “Meet the Composers: Ralf Gawlick, Hilary Tann, Richard Webster”, Greater Boston Choral Consortium, Brookline, MA, March 2010
  • Berlin Suite (selections), Breaking Through: Remembering the Berlin Wall and the End of the Cold War, Lecture and Concert at the Rotary Club of Scituate with Sergei Khrushchev, Cohasset, MA, February 2010
    Broadcast Media
  • Imagined Memories (Bîranînên Xeyalî), Wiener Fassung, Hugo Wolf Quartet, Radio Klassik Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria, January 2018
  • Beyond Ricci: Rare Books from the Jesuitana Collection at Boston College, website includes commissioned work Quando il Fiume Giallo si acchiararà (Frammenti ricciani) op.17, Chestnut Hill, MA, launched August 2012
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Pomona College, CA, November 2014
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Washington, DC, November 2014
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, DC Shorts Film Festival, Washington D.C, September 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Dragon-Con Independent Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, August 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, MA, July 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Comic-Com Film Festival, San Diego, CA, July 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Nantucket Film Festival, Nantucket, MA, June 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York, NY, June 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota, FL, April 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Boston Underground Film Festival, Cambridge, MA, March 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, WAM! Boston Film Festival 2012, Cambridge, MA, March 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Omaha Film Festival, Omaha, NE, March 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ, February 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO, November 2011
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Building Change Film
  • Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2011
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Border Visions: Borderlands and Film (Conference), Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, October 2011
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden, October 2011
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Bluestocking Film Series, Portland, MN, October 2011
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Se-Ma-For International Competition for Best Stop Motion Film, Lodz, Poland, September 2011
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Calgary International Film Festival, Canada, September 2011
  • Interviewed for Romance Sphere, Online Magazine of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, http://romancesphere.fas.harvard.edu, Cambridge, MA, June 2011
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Musica Omnia 0406), 90.3 WZBC radio broadcast, Chestnut Hill, MA, December 2010
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA, November 2010
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, International Rotary Convention, Montreal, Canada, June 2010
  • “Multimedia Prelude” for BC magazine audio slideshow on Kinderkreuzzug by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, launched May 2010
  • Mysterium doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz) (Musica Omnia 0309), 90.3 WZBC radio broadcast “Modern Music for Modern Mondays”, Chestnut Hill, MA, March 2010
  • “Freedom Without Walls”, short video on Boston College commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall by Boston College Office of News and Public Affairs, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, launched 2009
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, New York Law School, New York, NY, November 2009
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Streaming Museum urban mega-screen project in Piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy, November 2009
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, November 2009
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, November 2009
  • Premiere Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, October 2009

Broadcast Media

  • Imagined Memories (Bîranînên Xeyalî), Wiener Fassung, Hugo Wolf Quartet, Radio Klassik Stephansdom,  Vienna, Austria, January 2018 
  • Beyond Ricci: Rare Books from the Jesuitana Collection at Boston College, website includes  commissioned work Quando il Fiume Giallo si acchiararà (Frammenti ricciani) op.17,  Chestnut Hill, MA, launched August 2012 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Pomona College, CA, November 2014 Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”,
  • Washington, DC, November 2014 Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, DC Shorts Film Festival, Washington D.C, September 2012 
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Dragon-Con Independent Film Festival, Atlanta, GA, August 2012 Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, MA, July 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Comic-Com Film Festival, San Diego, CA, July 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Nantucket Film Festival, Nantucket, MA, June 2012
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Brooklyn International Film Festival, New York, NY, June
  • 2012 Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota, FL, April 2012 
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Boston Underground Film Festival, Cambridge, MA, March
  • 2012 Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, WAM! Boston Film Festival 2012, Cambridge, MA, March 2012 
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Omaha Film Festival, Omaha, NE, March 2012 
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ, February 2012 Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO, November 2011 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Building Change Film Festival,  Pittsburgh, PA, October 2011 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Border Visions: Borderlands and Film  (Conference), Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, October 2011 
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden, October 2011 Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Bluestocking Film Series, Portland, MN, October 2011 
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Se-Ma-For International Competition for Best Stop Motion Film, Lodz,  Poland, September 2011 
  • Screening of “Dziad i Baba”, Calgary International Film Festival, Canada, September 2011 
  • Interviewed for Romance Sphere, Online Magazine of the Department of Romance Languages and  Literatures at Harvard University, http://romancesphere.fas.harvard.edu, Cambridge, MA, June 2011 
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Musica Omnia 0406), 90.3 WZBC radio broadcast, Chestnut Hill, MA, December 2010 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA,  November 2010 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, International Rotary Convention,  Montreal, Canada, June 2010 
  • “Multimedia Prelude” for BC magazine audio slideshow on Kinderkreuzzug by the Office of Marketing  and Communications, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, launched May 2010 Mysterium doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz) (Musica Omnia 0309), 90.3 WZBC radio broadcast “Modern  Music for Modern Mondays”, Chestnut Hill, MA, March 2010 
  • “Freedom Without Walls”, short video on Boston College commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall by  Boston College Office of News and Public Affairs, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, launched 2009 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, New York Law School, New York,  NY, November 2009 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Streaming Museum urban mega-screen  project in Piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy, November 2009 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA,  November 2009 
  • Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Westminster College, Fulton, MO,  November 2009 
  • Premiere Screening of “Writing on the Wall: Remembering the Berlin Wall”, Museum of Fine Arts,  Boston, MA, October 2009 

Performances

  • O Lungo Drom (The Long Road), Boston College, Joint US première, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2024 Clara Meloni, soprano; Christoph Filler, baritone; László Rácz, cimbalom Alban Berg Ensemble Wien
  • O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) , College of the Holy Cross, Joint US première, Worcester, MA, April 2024 Clara Meloni, soprano; Christoph Filler, baritone; László Rácz, cimbalom Alban Berg Ensemble Wien
  • Bobby ~ Tombeau for an Artist, Music Azores 2023, Azores, November 2023 Florian Berner, vc
  • At the still point of the turning world, Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA, April 2023 Rafael Popper-Keizer, vc
  • O Lungo Drom, Konzerthaus Berlin, World première, Germany October 2022 Johanna Zimmer, soprano; Georg Gädker, baritone; László Racz, cimbalom Alban Berg Ensemble Wien
  • Imagined Memories (Bîranînên Xeyalî), BERGfest Ein Festival des Alban Berg Ensemble Wien  REAKTOR, Vienna, Austria June 2022 Hugo Wolf Quartet 
  • Imagined Memories (Bîranînên Xeyalî), Palais Prinz Carl, Heidelberg, Germany April 2022 Hugo Wolf Quartet 
  • Herzliche Grüße Bruno ~ Briefe aus Stalingrad, German première, Musiksaal in the Kongresshalle, Nürnberg, Germany April 2022 Chi-Chen Wu, piano; Georg Gädker, baritone 
  • Berlin Suite & Sorores, 30th anniversary concert commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall: Berlin Walls  (What still divides us), Chestnut Hill, September 2019 Richard Shaughnessy, cl; Diane Heffner, bass cl; Omar Chen Guey Katherine Winterstein, vlns; Noriko  Futagami, vla; Rafael Popper-Keizer, vc 
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble), ‘Gedenkkonzert: 80 Jahre  Kriegsbeginn in Europa’, Boy Choir of the Choral Academy Dortmund, Jost Salm, conductor, Dortmund,  Germany, September 2019 
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände), Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada July 2019 Anne Harley, soprano; Steve Thachuk, guitar
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände), Toronto Summer Music Festival, Toronto, Canada July 2019 Anne Harley, soprano; Steve Thachuk, guitar
  • Herzliche Grüße Bruno ~ Briefe aus Stalingrad, world première, Newton, MA 2019 Bradford Gleim, baritone; Chi-Chen Wu, pianos; Sound Montage
  • Imagined Memories, Architektur-Hören (Post am Rochus) Konzert-Zyklus, Vienna, Austria, October 2018 Hugo Wolf Quartet
  • Mysterium doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz), Thailand International Composition Festival, Salaya, Thailand, August 2018 Moritz Ernst, pno
  • Mysterium doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz), Hirschberg, Germany, March 2018 

               Moritz Ernst, pno

  • Imagined Memories, Salon Topak, Vienna, Austria, January 2018 Hugo Wolf Quartet
  • Imagined Memories, Musikverein, Vienna, Austria, January 2018 Hugo Wolf Quartet
  • Mysterium doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz), Chestnut Hill, MA October 2017 Moritz Ernst, pno
  • Sonata-Mazur (Aus der Ferne…), Chestnut Hill, MA, March 2017 Duo 209: Rachel V. Huang, vln; Tatiana Thibodeaux, pno
  • Sonata-Mazur (Aus der Ferne…), Scripps College, CA, October 2016 Duo 209: Rachel V. Huang, vln; Tatiana Thibodeaux, pno
  • Imagined Memories, Pfaffenhofen-an-der-Ilm, Germany, MA, June 2016 Hugo Wolf Quartet
  • Imagined Memories, Carnegie Hall, New York, MA, April 2016 Hugo Wolf Quartet
  • Imagined Memories, world première, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2016 Hugo Wolf Quartet
  • Glocken-Spiel, New Music by Boston College Composers, Boston, MA, October 2015 Charles Dimmick, vln; Ashleigh Gordon, vla; Rafael Popper-Keizer, vc; Sarah Bob, pno
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände), Boston GuitarFest X ‘The Eternal Feminine’, Boston, MA, June 2015 Anne Harley, soprano; Eliot Fisk, guitar
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble),
  • ‘Gedenkkonzert: 70 Jahre Kriegsende in Europa’, Boy Choir of the Choral Academy Dortmund, Ensemble Ghiribizzo, Jost Salm, conductor, Dortmund, Germany, May 2015
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble), ‘Gedenkkonzert: 70 Jahre Kriegsende in Europa’, Boy Choir of the Choral Academy Dortmund, Jan-Hendrick Jensch, conductor, Lübeck, Germany, May 2015
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble), West Coast première, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Valerie Sainte-Agathe, conductor, San Francisco, CA, April 2015
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble), West Coast première, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Valerie Sainte-Agathe, conductor, Berkeley, CA, April 2015
  • Berlin Suite, west coast première, Quartet Euphoria, Claremont, CA, November 2014
    Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble), 11th International Festival of Boys Choir, Boy Choir of the Choral Academy Dortmund, Gütersloh Knabenchor, Poznan Boy’s Choir, Jacek Sykulski, conductor, Dortmund, Germany, August 2014
  • Missa gentis humanæ (select movements), ‘Bach at One’ Concert Series at Trinity Wall Street Episcopal Church, New York, NY, April 2014 Choir Of Trinity Wall Street, Julian Wachner, conductor
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände), Scripps College, Claremont, CA, March 2014 Anne Harley, soprano; Eliot Fisk, guitar
  • Missa gentis humanæ, world premiere, Chestnut Hill, MA, February 2014 Choir Of Trinity Wall Street, Julian Wachner, conductor
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände), European premiere, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Germany, April 2013 Anne Harley, soprano; Eliot Fisk, guitar
  • Kollwitz-Konnex (…im Frieden seiner Hände), world premiere, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2013 Anne Harley, soprano; Eliot Fisk, guitar
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble), European premiere, Boy Choir of the Choral Academy Dortmund, Jost Salm, conductor, Dortmund, Germany, June 2012
  • At the still point of the turning world, Boston College Music in the Afternoon Concert Series, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2012 Rafael Popper-Keizer, vc
  • Sorores (Frauenpartita), premiere, Chestnut Hill, MA, February 2012 Richard Shaughnessy, cl; Diane Heffner, bass cl; Blanka Bednarz, vln; Rafael Popper-Keizer, vc
    Suscipe Domine, Chestnut Hill, MA, July 2011 Daniela Tosic, alto; Guiomar Turgeon, vln; Sarah Freiberg Ellison, vc
  • Quando il Fiume Giallo si acchiararà (Frammenti ricciani), premiere, Chestnut Hill, MA, April 2011 Daniela Tosic, alto; Gabriela Diaz, vln; Rafael Popper-Keizer, vc
  • Kinderkreuzzug arrangement (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble), Boy Choir of the Choral Academy Dortmund, Jost Salm, cond., Dortmund, Germany, July 2010
  • Kinderkreuzzug (Cantata for Children’s Chorus and Chamber Ensemble), premiere, Boy Choir of the Choral Academy Dortmund, Youth pro Musica, Treble Chorus of New England, Ensemble Glockenspiel, Valerie Becker, musical director, Chestnut Hill and Concord, MA, April 2010
  • Berlin Suite, premiere, Hawthorne String Quartet, Chestnut Hill, MA, March 2010
  • Berlin Suite (selections), Cohasset, MA, February 2010 Serena Lofftus, vln; Devon Maloney, vc
  • Musica Moderna Faculty Recital, Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano, Mysterium doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz), Sonata-Mazur (Aus der Ferne…) Blanka Bednarz, vln; Rafael Popper-Keizer, vc; Gloria Chien, pno; Jennifer Blyth, pno; Kanako Nishikawa, pno, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, March 2009
  • Trio for violin, violoncello and Piano, Atma Trio, GA, March 2009
  • Trio for violin, violoncello and Piano, Atma Trio, GA, March 2009
  • Sonata-Mazur (Aus der Ferne…), Penn State University, PA, February 2009 Blanka Bednarz, vln; Jennifer Blyth, pno
  • Sonata-Mazur (Aus der Ferne…), Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, February 2009 Blanka Bednarz, vln; Jennifer Blyth, pno
  • Boston College Composers Forum, Mysterium doloris quintae (Tropen-Kreuz), Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, February 2009 Gloria Chien, pno


Publications

  • ‘Degeneracy—Attack on Modern Art and Music’, chapter in Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust A  Prelude to Genocide, by Ralf & Barbara S. Gawlick, ed. by John and Susan Michalczyk and Michael  Bryant, Bloomsbury Publishing, NY, pp. 149-169, April 2022 
  • “The Banished God: Concerning Faith and Doubt in Lohengrin”, Ulrike Kienzle, Translated by Ralf  Gawlick, Religion and the Arts 17, Koninklijke, Brill NV, Leiden, pp. 222-245, 2013. 
  • “50 Years of the Warsaw Autumn” (CD-ROM), Editor-in-Chief/Translator of the program book  commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Autumn International Contemporary Music Festival,  2007 
  • “Witold Lutoslawski: A Life of Creation” (CD and DVD), Editor-in-Chief/Translator and Contributor to  the 1st comprehensive multimedia project documenting Witold Lutoslawski's life and work, sponsored by the Witold Lutoslawski Society, 2006  

Service

Music  

  • Music Instructor Volunteer through Boston College Music Outreach at the Gardner Pilot Academy,  Allston, MA, February 2012 – present 
  • Piano Accompanist, Boston College (Family Opera Series) and Dalcroze Center for Music and Movement  for Children, for Andy Beck’s “The Nightingale” (children’s opera based on Hans Christian Anderson),  Chestnut Hill, MA, February 2012 
  • Chamber Music Coach and Piano Accompanist, for string players from Newton Middle Schools and High  School, performing Trio Sonatas by Corelli and Bridge, The Falls Senior Center, Newton, MA,  August, 2011 
  • Piano Accompanist, Dalcroze Center for Music and Movement for Children, for Andy Beck’s The  Nightingale (children’s opera based on Hans Christian Anderson), Brookline, MA, June 2011 
  • Piano Accompanist, Dalcroze Center for Music and Movement, opera scenes from Humperdinck’s Hansel  and Gretel, Hans Krasa’s Brundibar, and Alison Hedger’s “The Musicians of Bremen”, Brookline, MA,  December 2010 
  • Piano Accompanist, Dalcroze Center for Music and Movement, for Mozart’s The Magic Flute (adaptation),  Brookline, MA, June 2010 
  • Piano Accompanist, Boston College (Family Opera Series) and Dalcroze Center for Music and Movement  collaboration, for 70th anniversary performance of Hans Krasa’s Brundibar, Chestnut Hill, MA, October  2009 
  • Performer (Soloist, Accompanist and Chorister), Our Lady of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Church,  Religious Services, Cultural and Patriotic Events, Dorchester, MA, 2002 - present 

Other  

  • Board member, Club administrator, Trainer, Hammer Futbol Club, West Roxbury, MA, August 2008 – present 

Organizations

  • Society for Music Theory, 2011-present
  • New England Conference of Music Theorists, 2011-present
  • Board of Trustees, Musica Omnia CD Label, 2011-present
  • New Music USA (formerly American Music Center), 2004-present
  • ASCAP, 1998-present

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