Janet Dunbar

jmd@ccrma.stanford.edu

Objective: Teaching position in composition, computer music and recording arts or vocal or instrumental ensemble director.

Teaching and Work Experience

11-88 to present: Director, About Music, San Pablo and Saratoga, CA, and as of August, 2002, of Amberlight Academy of Music, Colleyville, TX.
Instructed in strings, voice, piano, flute, composition and improvisation. Accompanied on these instruments at lessons and student recitals. Conducted ensembles.

6-98 to 7-99: Audio Engineer, Amberlight Productions,
Saratoga, CA.
Recorded, mixed, edited, digital signal processed, and mastered the CD, SPIRIT JOURNEY (Release No. JD10SJ), which was released by Amberlight on November 11, 1999.

6-94 to 6-97: Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, Stanford University, in Algorithmic Composition Workshop, Sound Synthesis and History of Electronic Music courses at CCRMA, as well as eighteenth century counterpoint and music theory classes. Sequencing and music notation software skills. Conducted ensembles and accompanied students in the classroom setting.

12-85 to 11-88: Music Instructor, Fiat Music Company, Pinole, CA in strings, voice, piano and flute. Accompanied on these instruments at lessons and student recitals.

Education

D.M.A. in composition, Stanford University, 1998. GPA 3.98.

M.A. in music, San Jose State University, 1993. GPA 3.82.

B.S. in psychology with distinction, magna cum laude, Duke University. GPA 3.30

Professional Associations

Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Mid-Cities Music Teachers Association (MCMTA)

Select Performances/Multimedia Exhibitions

“Song of the Sea” (DMA Final Project, approximate duration 28 minutes) performed by the composer as soprano and Richard Holmes, performance poet on Saturday, April 10, 1999 in the Fifth International New Music Festival, San Diego, CA.

“Song of the Shaman” performed at Jacqueline Thurston solo photography show opening, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA, January, 1999.

Several collaborative musico-poetic works with Jacqueline Thurston at Alea II and CCRMA concerts, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University, 1995-1998.

Visual Cymbals Exhibition, South Bay Women¹s Caucus for Art. Ouroborous, an installation of sculpture, poetry and music, at San Jose State University, October, 1995.

Susan Davis Holmes, soprano, sang "A Light Left On" at SJSU in August, 1993 with Kerri Renshaw accompanying on piano.