 
Carson
Kievman
Executive Artistic Director
Composition/Theory Instructor
SoBe
Music Institute
751 Euclid
Avenue, Suite 2
Miami Beach, Fl 33139
305 674-9220
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
- SoBe Music Institute (Miami's Institute
for Performing Arts) - Executive Artistic Director, Composition/Theory Instructor (2005 - current)
- University of Maryland, University College - The Impact of Music on Life - DL Professor Beginning Summer 2007
- Troy University
- University College - Music in Individual Development - DL Professor
Spring 2004 - - Current
- Montclair State
University - Music Theory III, Aural Skills III, Aural Skills IV and
Music Theory IV (Form and Analysis) - Visiting Professor Fall 2003
thru Fall 2004
- Princeton University,
Woolworth Center of Musical Studies - Research Associate Fall 2002
thru Summer 2004
- Ryder University
School of Music - Westminster Choir College - Music Theory, Musicianship
- Visiting Professor Spring 2005
- Kean University
- Music History - Adjunct Professor Fall 2003 thru Fall 2004
- Princeton University,
Woolworth Center of Musical Studies - Beginning & Advanced Music-Theory
Preceptor (plus ear training and musicianship labs) - Led classes
in analysis, compositional techniques and discussion groups as well
as musicianship & ear training labs (Music 104, 105) - plus private
composition students - 1997-2002. Note: led individual seminar sessions
in diverse subjects , such as words & music, semiotic interpretations,
string quartets by Stravinsky, the *purple patches* of Mozart, the
music of Earle Brown, Luigi Nono, and Olivier Messiaen (his teachers
and mentors), orchestra music of Jean Sibelius, and String Quartets
of Mozart (Haydn Quartets) & Haydn (op. 33).
- The New School
University - Earle Brown Memorial Lecture - Fall 2002
- Aaron Copland
School of Music, City University of New York - Composition Seminar
Lectures.
- Darmstadt Ferienkürse
Für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany, Docent & Lecturer. Lectured
about the history of Darmstadt & contemporary piano music. Counseled
individual composition students.
- Gaudeamus Foundation/the
Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Music lectures.
- Hochschule für
Musik. Mannheim, Germany. Music-Theater Extended Workshop Led two
weeklong workshops in composing and directing for music-theater, directing
and contemporary performance techniques.
- Kean University,
Union, New Jersey. Lectured in Humanities
- University of
Miami, Seminar Lecture. Miami, Florida. Lectured about his own music
and career as well as being Composer-in-Residence for a symphony orchestra.
- Florida International
University, Composition Seminar. Lecture. Miami, Florida. Lectured
about his own music and career as well as being Composer-in-Residence
for a symphony orchestra.
- Miami-Dade College,
Miami, Florida. Special Guest - Lectured in Humanities as Composer-in-Residence
with the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Composing and conducting
for the symphony orchestra and working in the arts.
Carson Kievman (composer/stage
director/conductor/professor) has held many residencies including the
Tanglewood Music Festival of Contemporary Music, The New York Shakespeare
Festival. the Eugene O'Neill Opera/Music-Theater Conference, Florida
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival and the Darmstadt
Summer music Festival. Kievman has received commissions and awards from
the Donaueschingen Festival, The National Endowment for the Arts, the
Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the American Music Center, Tanglewood,
Alte Stiftung Boswil, BMI, Gaudeamus Music Week, I.S.C.M, Janet A. Hooker
Charitable Trust, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the Pennsylvania
Ballet Theater, the Darmstadt Summer Festival, 4th International Composer's
Festival Zurich, the American Opera Theater, the Rockefeller Foundation
and New York's Joseph Papp Public Theater. Kievman's music and theater
works have been performed worldwide including several international
tours of his multimedia production Multinationals & The Heavens,
and a critically acclaimed retrospective of his music-theater works
at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (Germany). His Symphony No. 2(42) was
recorded by the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra-Katowice and
the Polish Radio Choir of Krakow, released by New Albion Records in
1996 to universal acclaim and solidified Kievman's place among the finest
living composers. Other CD projects include The Temporary & Tentative
Extended Piano, David Arden pianist, release in 2000 on CRI Records
and Symphony No. 3 (hurricane) conducted by Delta David Gier released
in 2002 on Mystery Park Arts Records. He work Henry's Eigth Harvest
was commissioned for the opening night concert of the 2000 European
Expo on Nature & Technology and premiere in Hanover, Germany. Dear
John the first movement from his Chamber Symphony No. 1(628) was commissioned
in 2004 for the Collegeate Chamber Orchestra at the oldest school in
American, founded in 1628. His works have been performed and broadcast
in concert halls, theaters and on the radio in over 36 countries around
the world.
Born in Los Angeles,
California, Carson Kievman holds a PhD from Princeton University and
an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He has taught music theory,
composition, music history and general humanities at Princeton University,
Montclair State University, Troy University and lectured at The City
University of New York, the Ferienkürse fur Neüe Musik in
Darmstadt Germany, the Hochschule fur Musik Mannheim Germany, the University
of Miami, and many other learning and performing institutions. He counts
among his teachers &/or mentors: (composers) Olivier Messiaen, Earle
Brown, Joseph Papp, James Tenney, Luigi Nono, Morton Subotnick, (producer)
Joseph Papp, (conductor) Mario di Bonaventura, (scholars) Scott Burnham,
Rob Wegman, Kofi Agawu and (Legendary theatrical attorney) L. Arnold
Weissburger.
"Powerful", New York Times
"It provides one of the most powerful musical experiences I
have had in recent times", Spoleto Today - Post and Courier
"Run to the National Theater if you miss this you have only
yourself to blame... it is furious and phenomenal!", Mannheimer
Morgen
"Kievman is a Wizard", The Village Voice
"Great Art", The Boston Globe
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
- South Beach Institute
of the Arts - Artistic Director 2005 - Current
- Mystery Park
Arts Company - a 501 (3) (c) Not-for-Profit Arts and Educational organization
- Artistic Director and President 1989 - Current.
- New Jersey Music
Educator's Conference, Guest Lecturer - 1996
- California Institute
of the Arts, Valencia, California, taught classes in advanced compositional
techniques: serial, atonal and aleatoric, plus harmony and ear training.
- The New York
Shakespeare Festival / The Public Theater, Composer/Director in Residence
- The Florida Philharmonic
Orchestra, Composer-in-Residence; Commissions and performances; Screened
contemporary music submissions and advised Music Director James Judd;
Organized Philharmonic Forum, Miami New Music Orchestral Workshops;
Pre-Concert Lecturer for Orchestra in Miami, Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale
and Boca Raton, Florida, including the music of Mahler, Stravinsky,
Debussy, Bartók, Mozart, Beethoven, etc.
- Tanglewood Contemporary
Music Festival, Composer/Director -in-Residence
- Spoleto Festival/Charles
Ives Center for American Music, Composer-in-Residence
- Eugene O'Neill
Opera/Music-Theater Conference, Composer-in-Residence
- State of Florida,
Department of Cultural Affairs, Arts Institutions Program Evaluator
- State of Florida,
Department of Cultural Affairs, Individual Grants Jury Member (2)
EDUCATION
- PhD (June 2003),
MFA Princeton University - Music Composition/Theory
- BFA, MFA. California
Institute of the Arts - Music/Interdisciplinary Studies
- Professional
Studies. Tanglewood Music Center - Leonard Bernstein Fellow
- Professional
Studies. Darmstadt Ferienkürse für Neüe Musik - Lord
Mayor of Darmstadt fellow
- Principal Composition
Instructors:
- Earle Brown -
Olivier Messiaen - Morton
Subotnick - James
Tenney - Luigi
Nono (Mentor)
- Principal Theory/Musicology
Instructors:
- Kofi Agawu -
Harold Budd - Scott
Burnham - Paul
Lansky - Stephen
L. Mosko - Leonard
Stein - Rob
Wegman
TEACHING SPECIALTIES
- Music Composition,
theory, counterpoint, orchestration and analysis
- 20th-21st century
music analysis
- Opera/Music-Theater
composition, stage direction, history and performance
- Music History
- Medieval to 21st century
- World Music
- Humanities -
cultural history of the Arts
REPRESENTATIVE
COURSES TAUGHT
- Music Composition
- Music Theory
I, II, III & IV
- Advanced Undergraduate
Music Theory - Symphony No. 9, Beethoven
- Aural Skills
I, II, III & IV
- Humanities -
cultural history
- Music in Individual
Development (Gen Ed.)
- Music History
(Survey) (Gen Ed. + Maj.)
- Orchestration
- Graduate Seminar
Lectures - String Quartet, Stravinsky; Words & Music; Symphony
No. 5, Sibelius; The Ascendancy of Timbre; Mozart/Haydn Quartets,
Mozart; Quartets op. 33, Haydn; Semiotic interpretations in
18th c Classical Style.
DISSERTATION
Ligeti and Ockeghem
- The Music of Transcendence
Advisors: Dr. Scott Burnham, Professor, Chair of the Dept. of Music,
Princeton University, Dr. Rob Wegman, Associate Professor, Department
of Music, Princeton University. This dissertation examines the similar
musical interests between early and new music composers. Dissertation
includes an in-depth analysis of György Ligeti's Requiem (Introitus and Kyrie) and Johannes Ockeghem's Marian
Motets (Intemerata Dei mater). Music: Heer Ranja Prototype
and Sine Nomine (Auctore Ignoto)
SELECTED
RECENT PERFORMANCES
- May 25, 2004.
TESLA (Scenes: Mark Twain's Prologue & Split Lab Scene (Tesla/Edison),
World Premiere Workshop. New York City Opera VOX Festival 2004. Symphony
Space, New York. Encompass New Opera Theater. John Yaffe, conductor
- November 4, 2002.
Sirocco. World Premiere. Carnegie Hall, New York, NY. Imani Winds
- Carnegie Hall Debut Concert.
- Thursday, February
28, 2002. Heer Ranja Prototype. World Premiere. Taplin Auditorium,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Paul Hilliar's Theater of Voices.
- June 20, 2001.
Meditation. South Africa Premiere. Standard Bank National Arts Festival
- New Music Indaba, Grahamstown, South Africa. David Arden, piano
- September 10,
2000. Henry Eight's Harvest. World Premiere. Commissioned by the German
government to open the European Expo 2000 on the theme of Nature &
Technology - Niedersachsische MusikTages, Hanover, Germany. Henry's
Eight Consort, Jonathan Brown, director.
- November 1, 1999.
Sine Nomine (Auctore Ignoto). World Premiere. Princeton University
Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey. Commissioned by the Josquin International
Conference. The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman, conductor.
- November 3, 1999.
Sine Nomine (Auctore Ignoto). New York Premiere Columbia University's
St. Paul's Chapel, New York, NY. The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman,
conductor.
- June 16, 1999.
Nuts & Bolts. New England Conservatory of Music Piano Festival.
Joseph Kubera, piano.
- May 14, 1999.
Contrabassimi. Taplin Auditorium. Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ. Bertram Turetsky, bass soloist.
- May 4 1999. Starving
Angels. World Premiere. Taplin Hall, Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ. Serioso String Quartet (Julliard) & Dakota Kievman, violin
soloist.
- March 18, 1999.
Nuts & Bolts. New York Premiere. Merkin Concert Hall, New York,
NY. Joseph Kubera, piano.
- April 21, 1998.
Symphony No. 4 (Biodiversity. World Premiere Reading. New Jersey Symphony
Orchestra. Richardson Auditorium, Princeton, NJ. Lawrence Leighton-Smith,
conductor.
SELECTED RECENT
WRITINGS
- The Music of
Transcendence - Book in progress 2004
- Ligeti and Ockeghem
- The Music of Transcendence - Dissertation, Princeton University
'03
- Sound Color &
Visceral Perception: The Historical Ascendancy of Timbre - Thesis,
Princeton University 2000
- Words & Music
(David Mamet - JS Bach) - Thesis, Princeton University 1999
- Franklin &
Jefferson killed Mozart - Article/Guest Lecturer, New Jersey Music
Educator's Conference - Kean University 1997
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS,
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS & COMMISSIONS - SELECTED
- Collegiate School
(NYC) Orchestra Chamber Symphony Commission - oldest school in the
United States (1628)
- Princeton University
Naumberg Fellowship in Music Composition
- Princeton University
Research Fellowships (3)
- Princeton University
Recording/Travel Fellowship
- Princeton University,
Butler College Fellow
- Tanglewood Music
Center/Fromm Foundation at Harvard Opera Commission
- European Expo
2000 - Germany -Opening Night Concert Commission - Henry's Eight Consort,
Niedersachsische MusikTages, Hanover, Germany - *live* broadcast throughout
Europe on NDR
- Binchois Consort
- International Josquin Conference Commission
- Lawrence Remmel,
Chamber Ensemble Commission, New York, NY
- Florida Philharmonic
Symphony Orchestra Commissions (3)
- Donaueschingen
Festival, Südwestfunk, Baden-Baden Opera Commission
- Pennsylvania
Ballet Theater Commission
- New York Shakespeare
Festival/Public Theater Opera Commissions (2)
- Fromm Foundation
Commission
- National Endowment
for the Arts. Composer/Librettist Fellowship
- American Opera
Theater Commission
- Commission (jointly),
Fernando Grillo, Perugia, Italy & Bertram Turetsky, San Diego,
California
- Commission, David
Arden, San Francisco, California
- Rockefeller Foundation
Major Production Grant
- Adolph Foundation
Major Production Grant
- American Music
Center, Margaret Jory Composer's Assistance Grants (2)
- Leonard Bernstein
Fellowship, Berkshire Music Center/Tanglewood Music Festival
- Individual Artist
Fellowship, Florida Department of State, Div. of Cultural Affairs
- BMI Composition
Awards (2)
- MacDowell Colony
Fellowships (3)
- The Lord Mayor
of Darmstadt, Full Stipend, Ferienkürse Fur Neüe Musik (2)
- Aspen Music Festival
Scholarship
- Janet A. Hooker
Charitable Trust Concert Production Grant
- Janet A. Hooker
Charitable Trust Recording Grant
- Disney Foundation
Scholarships
- California Institute
of the Arts Fellowships & Scholarships
- Tanglewood -
Margaret Grant Memorial Composition Prize
- International
Jury Selection for I.S.C.M. World Music Days, Brussels & Bonn
- Koussevitzky
Foundation, Composer's Residency
- Jury & Participant's
Prizes, 4th International Composer's Festival Zurich
- Jury Selection,
Gaudeamus Music Week. Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Irvine Scholarship
MUSIC PUBLISHERS
- Associated Music
Publishers (G. Schirmer). Published exclusively from 1974 - 1990
(Youngest composer ever signed to an exclusive contract in company's
history)
- Intelligent Company
Publishers. Published exclusively from 1990 - 2004
SPECIAL SKILLS
- Multimedia: Stage
Director, Special Effects Designer, Set Designer
- Electronic/Film
Music: MIDI, ProTools, Finale, Sibelius and extensive digital and
analog Institute experience (producer, editor & creative) - more
- Educational Media:
Blackboard, Pro Tools, Finale educational tools - more.
- Web & Media:
Macromedia, MIVA & Microsoft Software - more
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