I have revised and edited my violin & piano arrangement of Miklós Rózsa’s Love Theme from El Cid. The original version is performed here by Lelie Cristea (violin) & Tamilla Guliyeva (piano) at stadt.bau.raum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
arranging
My arrangements are published worldwide via Hal Leonard's ArrangeMe, formerly known as SMP Press, and can be purchased at Sheet Music Plus and/or Sheet Music Direct.
Other services include notating demo recordings (“takedowns”), orchestration, and editorial work (see below).
music copyist services
engraving/typesetting, transposing, proofreading, reducing, etc.
Editorial Assistant, Boosey & Hawkes, New York, 2017-2019
Past clients and projects have included:
Concerts at Saint Thomas (Fifth Avenue, New York) for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s
using an early 20th-century handwritten orchestral manuscript, created modern edition for performance
produced orchestral score and parts
identified and corrected musical errors made by original copyist
Composer Tyondai Braxton for the BBC Singers
created piano reduction of an orchestral score for use in choral rehearsals
Family of composer Demetrios Pappas, for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
assisted in creation of English-language versions of liturgical choral pieces (music engraving/editing and text-setting)
Susan Woodruff Versage, Mannes Opera coach
transposed piano-vocal scores for singers & pianists
The Leonard Bernstein Office
compiled list of differences between various versions of an orchestral score
David Krane, Broadway & film composer/pianist/arranger (industry reading, Goin’ Hollywood)
assisted composer with ongoing musical revisions
other professional skills:
Instruments: voice, piano, mallet/auxiliary percussion
Ability to play by ear with unusual facility & accuracy
Diverse experiences performing in various ensembles & settings during high school & college: concert choir, chamber choir, theater pit orchestra (keyboards), symphonic/concert band/wind ensemble/orchestra (mallets/piano), jazz ensemble (keyboard), marching band (mallets/front ensemble)
Conducting
Baruch Chorus (from the keyboard)
Two semesters of practical coursework (wind ensemble specialization)
Teaching
Adjunct Lecturer, Baruch College, City University of New York, Aug. 2021-present. Courses taught:
Harmony I (in-person)
Chorus (in-person)
MSC 1003 “Music in Civilization” (online and in-person)
Private composition studio of a dozen first-year undergraduates (Hartt Fellowship, University of Hartford, Fall 2019)
Writing / copy-editing
Co-winner, UConn Writing Center 2012 Aetna Writing in the Disciplines Award, for art history paper, “Religious & Evangelistic Iconography in Chagoya’s Return of the Macrobiotic Cannibal”