Personal

Born: In the 1950s, Cambridge, Massachusetts Daughters: Celina Celeste, 1986          Stephanie Cecile, 1989

E-Mail: Christopher@yavelow.com America On-line: Bytehoven HomePage: http://www.yavelow.com

Degrees and Diplomas

Conservatoire Darius Milhaud -- Centre Acanthes (Aix-en-Provence, France) Summers 1979 & 1981
Studies in composition and analysis (Diploma)
(Gyorgy Ligeti - 1979; Mauricio Kagel - 1981)
Conservatoire de Musique Américain (Fontainebleau, France) Summer 1980
Studies in composition and analysis (Diploma)
(Narcis Bonet, Henri Dutilleux, Betsy Jolas, Emile Naoumoff)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) 1974 - 77
Master of Fine Arts (Music Composition) 1976
Graduate work toward Ph.D. in Composition begun September, 1974;
course work completed and qualifying examinations passed (ABD) February, 1977
(David Lewin, Earl Kim, Leon Kirchner)
Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Boston, MA) 1972 - 74
Master of Music (Composition and Theory) 1974
(David Del Tredici, Alfred Kanwischer, Gardner Read)
Boston University School for the Arts (Boston, MA) 1968 - 72
Bachelor of Music (Composition and Theory) 1972
(Joyce Mekeel, Hugo Norden, Edith Stearns)

Additional Studies (Europe)

Nadia Boulanger (Paris, France) 1978 - 79
Keyboard harmony (through the Ecole Normale de Musique)
Private composition lessons
Analysis classes
Darmstadt Ferienkurs für Neue Musik (Darmstadt, Germany) Summer 1978
Studies in composition and analysis
(Brian Ferneyhough, Cristobal Halffter, Helmut Lachenmann)
Franz Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest, Hungary) 1977 - 78
Studies in composition, conducting, analysis, and theory pedagogy
(Zsolt Durko, Peter Erdei, Ernö Lendvai, Erzsebet Hegyi)
Sterling-Currier Programme de Musique Contemporaine (Paris, France) Summer 1977
Studies in composition and analysis, sponsored by Columbia University
(Max Deutsch, Richard Hoffmann, Jacques-Louis Monod, Marc Wilkinson)

Additional Studies (USA)

A.S.C.A.P. Film Scoring Workshops (Hollywood, CA) 1989
(Fred Karlin)
Earl Hagen Film Music Composition Seminars (Hollywood, CA) 1988
Sponsored by Broadcast Music Incorperated
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) 1984 85
68000 Assembly Language Programming
(Jack Boudreau)
Southwestern Chamber Opera Festival (FortWorth, TX) 1984
(Boris Goldovsky)
New England Computer Arts Association Summer Course (Boston, MA) Summer 1983
Computer-assisted scoring, analysis, instrument design, composition
(Christopher Fry, Otto Laske, Pamela Marshall)
Kodaly Musical Training Institute -- Extension Division (Wellesley, MA) 1975 - 76
Studies in solfège
(Lenke Horvath)
The 30th Annual Composers' Conference (Johnson, VT) Summer 1975
(Mario Davidowsky, Roger Sessions, Seymour Shiffrin)
Kodaly Musical Training Institute (Wellesley, MA) 1975
Special Course for College Theory Teachers
(Erzsebet Hegyi)
M.I.T. Faculty Seminar on Music, Linguistics, and Aesthetics (Cambridge, MA) 1974 - 76
(David Epstein, Irving Singer, various guest speakers)
Peabody Conservatory -- Preparatory Division (Baltimore, MD) 1966 - 67
(following and during studies with Dorothea and Otto Ortmann)