Sarah K. Michaels, Ph.D.

387 High Bluff Trail
Portland, ME 04105
ph: 207.555.4803
email: sarah.michaels@polar.bowdoin.edu

Education:

Eastman School of Music 2005 Ph.D. in Music Composition Composition Studies with Christopher Mellon and Peter St. Michaels. 2001 Master of Music in Composition Composition Studies with Linda Davis and Anthony Miles. Computer Music Studies with Rebecca Adler. Boston University 1999 Bachelor of Music in Composition Honors: summa cum laude Composition studies with Edith Foo and Johnny Detweiler. Piano Studies with April Stevens.

Employment:

Bowdoin College August 2007- present Assistant Professor, Music, and Coordinator of Digital Arts Duties & Accomplishments: • Administrative responsibilities related to the Digital Arts program • Teach Music and Digital Arts courses • Director of Digital Arts-Music program and music studio • Curriculum Computing Consultant for the School of Music • Grew Digital Arts program from infancy to current size of 35 majors • Attained funding in excess of $300,000 for Digital Arts program Bowdoin College Jan. 2006-May 2006 Adjunct Faculty Instructor of Digital Music and Technology Boston College Jan. 2006-May 2006 Adjunct Faculty Instructor of Computer Music and Music for Film Eastman School of Music Sept. 2002-August 2005 Departmental Assistant, Composition (Computer Music Center) Duties: • System Administrator and Instructor of labs, classes and summer courses. Special Areas: • SGI, NeXT, Sun, and Macintosh hardware • Digital audio workstations and multi-track recording • MIDI studios • Managing Internet information resources

Performances:

Compositions performed in the United States and Europe by the Boston String Quartet, the BC Faculty Quartet, Marimolin, pianist Matt Rodgers, percussionist Randy Givens, the New Orleans Symphony. Festival performances include the 2006 Berlin Festival of Contemporary Music, the 2009 Festival of New Music at Boston University, the 2009 "Contrasts" Contemporary Music Festival in Lviv, Ukraine and the 2010 Rockport Chamber Music Festival. Performances as a pianist in Bowdoin College School of Music recitals, the Eastman Musica Nova, the Boston University Composer Forums, and the Boston University Concert Jazz Band. Additional performances as a keyboardist and electric guitarist with the chamber ensemble Bodyhammer, and in performances of Symphonies 8 and 10 by Glenn Branca.

Exhibitions:

Ain't Life Grand (2007): An interactive sound installation, created in conjunction with the 2008 Digital Arts Advanced MIDI students and shown at the Brunswick Cultural Arts Center. A network of computers, sensors, video, motion detectors, and a 21-channel sound system were used to enhance the art of Brunswick 6th-grade students. Sensors and motion detectors distributed throughout the gallery space captured the motion of participants, sending data to a computer network that interpreted audience movement as a musical performance through a 21-channel sound system.

Recordings:

CORN BREAD: Bigger than Life, Marimolin, GM Recordings, 2007. (Featuring works written for the ensemble by Michaels, Billy Cheese, Eddie Martin, and Gunther Williams) GED RUMBLINGS: Going Forward: a compilation of unique music, Poison Plant Recordings, 2002.

Publications:

CORN BREAD, C. Allen Publications, 2003.

Awards and Grants:

2010 -- Bowdoin College Full-Time Faculty Research Grant 2010 -- Boston University Music Teachers Association Composer Commission 2008 -- Bowdoin College Full-Time Faculty Research Grant 2005 -- Eastman School of Music Belle Gitelman Award in Composition 2001 -- Eastman School of Music Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize 2000 -- Marimolin Composition Prize 1999 -- Boston University Edwin E. Stein Award for Excellence in the Arts

List of Works:

Chamber and Solo Works Verve for solo violoncello (2010) Duration: 11 minutes Premiere: Jennifer David Massachusetts Music Teachers Association Convention; Wesfield, MA October 27th, 2000 Trio: finale for violoncello, piano, and percussion (2009) Duration: 3 minutes Premiere: Ginny Finch November 17th, 1999 Blade on the Greens for solo percussion (2009) Duration: 3 minutes Premiere: Robin Stevens "Constrasts" Contemporary Music Festival; Lviv, Ukraine October 11th, 1999 Fling String Quartet (2005/08) Duration: 18 minutes Premiere: Boston University Faculty Quartet Ninth Biennial Festival of New Music; Boston, MA February 6th, 1999 Swing for solo piano (2006) Duration: 3 minutes Premiere: Paul Dachlesen 1996 Bergen Festival of Contemporary Music; Baden-Baden, Norway Venus of Beauty for 2 keyboards, trumpet, percussion and cello (2005) Duration: 5 minutes Premiere: Terry Triumph Orchestra In Your Ear Festival; Rochester, NY A Flutist's Tale/Passions on Fire for flute and string quartet (2003) Duration: 5 minutes Premiere: Nelly Oliphant, flute and the Virtuosi of the New World Symphony; Miami, FL Hopscotch and Four Square for violin and marimba (2000) Duration: 10 minutes Premiere: Teddy Syn & The Cigars; Boston, MA Five-Half Fragments for solo piano (1999) Duration: 6 minutes Premiere: John Bentley, Boston, MA Red Shoes for oboe and piano (1999) Duration: 6 minutes Premiere: Chamber Four, Boston, MA Electro-Acoustic Glitz for solo performer and computer (2009) Duration: ca. 5 minutes Premiere: Brunswick, ME December 6th, 2009 A Round and a Square for electric guitar and computer processing (2009) Duration: 7 minutes Premiere: Electric Vibe, electric guitar; Boston, MA The Bowdoin HipHopfor sampling keyboard (2008) Duration: 3 minutes Premiere: Glenn Greene, keyboard; Brunswick, ME Written for the Centennial Celebration of Penelope Hall at Bowdoin College Heavy Hardware for computer-realized tape (2001) Duration: 3 minutes Gladiator for tape (1999) Duration: 5 minutes Premiere: Boston, MA Orchestral Opus for Life for flute and orchestra (2001) Duration: 5 minutes Premiere: Netty Riveria, flute and the New World Symphony; Boston, MA Theatrical Myths of being Snowbound: A Lesson for Today for violoncello, piano and percussion with narrator (2009) Duration: 9 minutes Premiere: The BCLO Ensemble; Brunswick, ME November 17th, 2009 Installations Ain't Life Grand (2007): with the 2007 Advanced MIDI Class of Bowdoin College Premiere: Brunswick Cultural Arts Center, Brunswick, ME Arrangements and Transcriptions One for the Road for voice, cello, percussion and piano (2010) Premiere: The BCLO Ensemble; Brunswick, ME March 3, 2010 Ciao for cello, percussion and piano (2009) Premiere: The BCLO Ensemble; Brunswick, ME November 17th, 2009 French Canadian Songs for brass quintet (2003) Premiere: Toronto Brass Quintet; Boston, MA October 21st, 2003 Salinas del Mar for flute and orchestra (2003) Premiere: Pete "Pops" Sands and the San Juan Pops Over the Rainbow for flute and orchestra (2002) Premiere: Pete "Pops" Sands and the Miami Youth Symphony; Miami, FL Passion's Uprising for flute and string orchestra (2001) Premiere: Chamber Four, Boston, MA February 29th, 2002