CURRICULUM VITAE: PETER K. WINKLER

Born January 26, 1943, Los Angeles, Calif.

Married, two children

EDUCATION

M.F.A., Music Composition, Princeton University, 1967

-studies with Earl Kim, Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone

B.A., Music, with High Honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1964

-studies with Seymour Shifrin, David Lewin, Andrew Imbrie

Chadwick School, Rolling Hills, Calif. 1957-60

Aspen Music School, 1959, studies with Darius Milhaud

Private study with Howard Brubeck (theory, composition) and Lyell Barbour (piano), 1954-60

Escondido, Calif., public schools 1947-57

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS

Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, 2001, 2003, 2005

Honorable Mention, International Horn Society 2003 Composition Contest (for Returning to the Root)

Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2001

First Prize, New England Reed Trio 2000 Competition (for Recitativo e Terzetto)

Member, Stony Brook Academy of Scholar-Teachers, 1999-2000

SUNY Foundation Travel Grant (travel to Accra, Ghana) 1987

MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 1978

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1977

Finalist, League/ISCM International Piano Music Competition, 1977 (for Humoresque)

SUNY Faculty Research Fellowships, 1975 and 1979

Junior Fellow, Harvard University Society of Fellows, 1968-71

Composers' Forum Concert, New York, 1970

Phi Beta Kappa (elected 1963)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)

(Chair, U.S. Branch, 1990-91)

Society of Composers, Inc.

Long Island Composers' Alliance

College Music Society

LISTINGS IN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Grove Online

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

COMPOSITIONS

46 Concert Works in various media, including music for solo instruments, chamber works, music for orchestra, chorus, and work in electronic media

Songs and music for 12 theatrical productions, including 3 produced in New York City.

Numerous songs and other occasional pieces

RECORDINGS

Silken Rags Music for violin by Peter Winkler, Dorothea Cook, violin. (2004; self-published)

Solitaire for solo clarinet

Philip Rehfeldt, clarinet. (Philip Rehfeldt plays new music, Advance Recordings FGR-81)

Michael Lowenstern, Bass Clarinet (Spasm , New World Records CD 80468-2, 1996)

Out! Original Cast Recording. The Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus, Winston Clark, conductor. Nutmeg Records CD 2001 (1998)

"Tamara, Queen of the Nile" (song, lyrics by Ernst Muller)

Joan Morris and William Bolcom (Lime Jello- An American Cabaret RCA AM4-5830, 1986)

Jody Karin Applebaum and Marc-Andre Hamelin (Serious Fun! Albany Records TROY 744, 2005)

PUBLICATIONS

"Randy Newman's Americana", in Middleton, Richard, ed. Reading Pop : Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music , p. 27-57 (Oxford University Press, 2000) (originally published in Popular Music Vol. 7 No. 1, Fall 1988, pp. 1-26

"Writing Ghost Notes: The Poetics and Politics of Transcription" in Schwartz, David, and Anahid Kassabian, ed., “Keeping Score” Music, Disciplinarity, Culture (University Press of Virginia Press,1997), p. 169-203

"In Search of Yaa Amponsah" in Straw, Will, et al., ed., Popular Music - Style and Identity (Montreal, Centre for Research on Canadian Cultral Industries and Institutions, 1995)

Editor, Journal of Popular Music Studies, the Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. Branch, 1992-95 (Vol. 5, 6, 7)

Editor, Review of Popular Music (RPM) , the Newsletter for the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), 1984-1989 (Issues #4-14)

"Pop Music's Middle Years", Music Educator's Journal, Vol. 66 No. 4, December 1979

"Toward a Theory of Popular Harmony", In Theory Only, Vol. 4 No. 2, June 1978

PAPERS PRESENTED (National and International meetings)

“Tasting the ‘Spanish Tinge’”

presented at the first hemispheric meeting, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Havana, Cuba, October 1994

“Blackface Minstrelsy Past and Present: The Case of Elvis Presley”,

presented at the 7th national meeting, IASPM/USA, Denton, Tx. Oct. 1992

"Writing Ghost Notes: The Politics of Transcription",

presented at 6th National Meeting, IASPM/USA, Chicago, Ill. Oct. 1991

"In Seach of Yaa Amponsah",

presented at 5th National Meeting, IASPM/USA, New Orleans, La., April 1990

Also presented at the conference in honor of Charles Hamm, Warm Springs, Virginia, June 1992, and the 5th International Meeting, IASPM, Stockton, Calif., July 1993.

"Learning from Popular Music"

32nd annual meeting, College Music Society, St. Louis, Mo. October 1989

"Ragtime: Echoes of Africa?"

4th International Conference on Popular Music Studies (IASPM), Accra, Ghana, August 1987

"Wild Boys/Girls' Fun: Structure and Meaning in Two Rock Videos"

3rd International Conference on Popular Music Studies (IASPM), Montreal, Canada, July 1985. Also presented at 3rd National Meeting, IASPM/USA, Pittsburgh, Pa., April 1987

"Randy Newman's Americana"

2nd National Meeting, IASPM/USA, Las Vegas, Nev., May 1984

"The Harmonic Language of Rock"

Keele University/Sonneck Society Conference on British-American Musical Interactions, Keele, Staffs., U.K. July 1983

"Pop and Jazz Harmony Since the 1960's"

45th Annual Meeting, American Musicological Society, New York, N.Y., November 1979

"The Roots of Passion Flower",

1st National Meeting, Society for Music Theory, Minneapolis, Minn., October 1978

"Toward a Theory of Popular Harmony"

42nd Annual Meeting, American Musicological Society, Washington D.C., November 1976

"Theory and Popular Styles"

16th Annual Meeting, College Music Society, Atlanta, Ga., January 1974

OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES:

Panelist, "Bach's Use of Folk and Popular Music" Bach Aria Festival and Institute, Stony Brook, N.Y. June 15, 1994

Panelist ("Bridging the Gap") Joint conference of CBMR, CMS, SEM, IASPM, Chicago, October 1991

Panelist ("Reflections on the 1889 Paris Exposition") CMS, St. Louis, October 1989

Chair of Program Committee, First joint meeting of the U.S. and Canadian Branches of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Yale University, Oct. 1987 Also Panelist ("Blues, Country, and Jazz in Three Buffalo Bars") at that conference

Panelist (sessions on Composition and Education), First International Music Theater Conference, Philadelphia, Pa. Oct. 1987

Consultant, Music in the United States Publication Project (American Musicological Society), Dartmouth College, N.H., Sept. 1987

Program Committee, Sonneck Society-Keele University conference, "British-American Musical Interactions" Keele University, Staffs., UK July 1983

RADIO SERIES

American Popular Music

A survey, in 30 half-hour programs. Produced at WUSB-FM for the Center for Continuing Education, SUNY Stony Brook, 1978

Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: A Biography

Produced at KPFA-FM, Berkeley, Spring 1964

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Professor, Music, SUNY Stony Brook, Sept. 1999 - present

Director of Graduate Studies, Music, SUNY Stony Brook,1993-94; 1996-2001; Spring 2002

Faculty, College Music Society Summer Institute, "Music in General Studies", Copper Mountain, Colorado, June 1990

Visiting Faculty, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA., 1989-91

Chamber Music Coach, Summer Retreat, Music Center of the Northwest, Seattle, WA., l991-93

Piano/Composition Faculty, Midsummer Musical Retreat, Port Townsend, WA., 1987-98

Associate Professor, Music, SUNY Stony Brook, Sept. 1977 - Aug. 1999

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Music, Sept. 1976- May 1986

Assistant Professor, Music, SUNY Stony Brook, Sept. 1971-Aug. 1977

Informal courses and tutorials in popular music, Adams House, Harvard University, 1968-70

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Music Theory, Princeton University 1967-68

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate Courses:

Composition (M.A. and Ph.D. levels)

Introduction to Popular Music Studies

Topics in Analysis

Undergraduate Music-Major Courses:

Composition

Composition in Popular Styles

Modal Counterpoint; Tonal Harmony

Analysis of Tonal Music; Analysis of Twentieth-Century Music

American Popular and Folk Styles

General Undergraduate Courses:

History of Jazz

Rock Music

Structural Principles of Music

Music of the Twentieth Century; Music of the Romantic Era

Extension Courses (Center for Continuing Education)

American Popular Music

The Creative Process in Music Writing

Music of the Twentieth Century

Master Learner, Federated Learning Communities, SUNY Stony Brook, 1992-93

(The Master Learner coordinated a program of courses from several disciplines on a common theme (the 1992-93 theme was "American Pluralism"). In addition to teaching a seminar which deals with the relationship between the course, the Master Learner took the federated courses along with the students, and chaired regular meetings of the faculty for those courses.)

Programs taught at The Evergreen State College (1989-91):

(Programs are integrated, full-time courses of study. Teaching duties include lectures, seminars, supervision of workshops, performance ensembles, student advising, supervision of independent projects, and managment of program budget)

"Serious Music", for students concentrating in music or music technology. Subject matter included analysis, theory, composition, history and sociology of music (all styles, but emphasizing popular music), and production of a student record album project. (Fall, Winter, Spring 1989-90)

"Patterns: Commonalities Between Art, Music, and Science" Team-taught with an artist and a biologist. Subject matter included psychology of perception, structural biology, fundamentals of visual design, music theory and composition, and the study of biographies of artists and scientists. (Fall, Winter l990-91)

"The Musical Mind" Study of musical cognition and the psychology of performance, coupled with intensive work in ensemble performance and composition. (Spring l991)

GUEST LECTURES, CONSULTING WORK

Consultant, evaluating new Master of Arts in Jazz History and Research at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. (1998)

Invited lectures to classes at Dartmouth College, Pennsylvania State University, State University College of New York at Oneonta (1980-90)

On a tour of the U.K. in Fall, 1986, presented lectures and seminars on popular music at University of Keele, Trinity College-Dublin, University of Edinburgh, University of Hull, University of Exeter, and Colchester Institute.

Reviewer of manuscripts of book on popular music and jazz for Harvard University Press, University of California Press, Prentice-Hall, Random House, Princeton University Press, Schirmer Books, and Brown and Benchmark

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

Professional pianist - work for concerts, restaurants, parties, receptions, cabarets, school assemblies, theatrical productions, etc. in the Long Island, N.Y. and Puget Sound, Washington, areas, 1980-present

Music Director for 12 theatrical productions (Stony Brook University Theater, Theatre Three Productions, Kids for Kids Productions) 1981-87

Music consultant/arranger for the rock group "Chrysalis" (album: Definition, MGM SE-4547, 1968)

Contributing Editor, Cheetah Magazine, 1967-68 (record reviews, feature articles and interviews)

Assistant Music Director, KPFA-FM (Pacifica Foundation) Berkeley, Calif., 1960-65

REFERENCES:

William Bolcom, Department of Music, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Home address: 3080 Whitmore Lake Rd., Ann Arbor, Mich. 41803

(734 769 1041)

Rhoda Levine. 18 E. 8th St., New York, N.Y. 10003. 212 254 5543

Kenneth Benshoof, Emeritus, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 2112 N. 61st St. Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 525 2228

Charles Hamm, Department of Music, Dartmouth College, emeritus

Bragg Hill Rd. Box 209, Norwich, Vermont 05055 (802) 649-1520)

Leo Treitler, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, N.Y.

Home address: 139 W. 19th St., New York, N.Y. 10011

(212) 989-8785

Judith Lochhead, Chair, Department of Music

State University of New York, Stony Brook N.Y. 11794-5475

(631) 632-7330