Nicholas Oberg Deyoe

Curriculum Vitae

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7120 Shoreline Drive #2312 – San Diego, CA 92122, USA

858.699.6544 - nicholasdeyoe@gmail.com

www.nicholasdeyoe.com

 

Education

Ph.D. Composition. University of California, San Diego (June 2013)

            Primary Teacher: Roger Reynolds

M.A. Composition. University of California, San Diego, June 2008

            Primary Teacher: Roger Reynolds

M.M. Orchestral Conducting. University of Northern Colorado, May 2006

            Primary Teacher: Russell Guyver

Exchange Program.  Carl von Ossietzky Universität; Oldenburg, Germany

            Spring and Summer 2004

            Primary Teacher: Violeta Dinescu

B.M. Music Theory and Composition. University of Northern Colorado, December 2004

            Primary Teacher: John McLaird

 

Recent / upcoming Performances

April 28: New Work for 15 players (winds, brass, piano, percussion) for Palimpsest. (Commissioned as a companion to Varése' Desèrts.) La Jolla, California.

March 14: New Work for percussion quartet - Usinesonore Festival - Malleray, Switzerland.

August 2009: -feel you painful longing - for violin, brass trio, and percussion; both performed by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Domaine Forget, Canada

17 May; 4, 5, 6 June 2009: Neither Here nor There for soprano saxophone, for Eliot Gattegno, Choreographed by Alicia Peterson Baskel, with video/projection by Ross Karre. La Jolla Playhouse, Potiker Theater.

17 May 2009: -forced through- ECHOI – UCSD Festival of New Music – La Jolla, California

Late April 2009: -waiting, despondently- Red Fish Blue Fish – performance following public recording session – La Jolla, California

20 November 2008 - Conductor of Giacinto Scelsi's Rotativa - Red Fish Blue Fish - La Jolla California (also recorded for Mode records)

9 July 2008 - Conductor of Marta Gentilucci's radix ipsius, Ensemble Ascolta - Darmstadt, Germany

17 July 2008 - Conductor of Marco Momi's Iconica II (Kranichsteiner prize winner), IMD Preisträgerensemble - Darmstadt, Germany

21 June 2008: -fl/vln- Lisa Cella, flute; Mark Menzies, violin - SoundOn Festival of Modern Music - La Jolla, California

9 May 2008: ...some new equation, given... Stephanie Aston, Reiko Manabe, and Paul Bowman – La Jolla, California

1 May 2008: Conductor of Helmut Lachenmann’s “…zwei Gefühle…” - Music of Helmut Lachenmann – La Jolla, California.  Lachenmann in attendance

2 March 2008: -fl/vln- Lisa Cella, flute; Mark Menzies, violin - UMBC - Baltimore, MD

13 October 2007: -fifteen players- Nicholas DeMaison, conductor – La Jolla, California

18 May 2007: Conductor of – Gérard Grisey – Vortex Temporum – La Jolla, California

4 April 2007: -2fl- Reiko Manabe and John Fonville - La Jolla, California

27 January 2007: -fl/vln- John Fonville and Peter Clarke – La Jolla, California

           

Publications

Epiphany for double bass and piano (2002) – Mesa Music Publishers (2004) (http://home.tiscali.be/mesamus)                        

 

Ensembles Conducted       

University of Northern Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Orchestra, and Opera Theater

Colorado Contemporary Music Consort

Red Fish Blue Fish

IMD Preisträgerensemble

Ensemble Ascolta

Noise

Ad hoc contemporary music ensembles in: San Diego, California; Greeley, Colorado; and Oldenburg, Germany

Recordings

POS BTR – INTERSECTIONS: Eliot Gattegno and Eric Wubbels. Spektral Records SRL4-08039

 

Awards, Fellowships, Scholarships

2008 BMI Student Composer Award

Scholarship to the Conductor's Forum: 44th Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Germany

Performance Research Assistant, UC San Diego – Music Department, current

Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego – Music Department, current

Bank One Technology Fellowship 2005/2006 academic year

Graduate Assistant, University of Northern Colorado Orchestras, Russell Guyver, 2005/2006 academic year

 

Teaching Experience

September – December 2008 – TA – Music 9 – The Symphony - UCSD

aaaaaResponsibilities: grading, lecturing, two sections meeting weekly, outside assistance to students

January – March 2008 – TA – Music 1B – Music Fundamentals - UCSD

aaaaaResponsibilities include: grading, one section meeting twice weekly, outside assistance to students

September – December 2007 – TA – Music 1A – Music Fundamentals - UCSD

aaaaaResponsibilities include: grading, one section meeting twice weekly, outside assistance to students

March – June 2007 – TA – Music 13AF – Music of Africa - UCSD

aaaaaResponsibilities: Grading, two sections meeting weekly, outside assistance to students

January – March 2007 – TA – Music 15 - Ragtime: Slavery to Stravinsky - UCSD

aaaaaResponsibilities: Grading, two sections meeting weekly, outside assistance to students

September – December 2006 – TA – Music 1A – Music Fundamentals - UCSD

aaaaaResponsibilities include: grading, one section meeting twice weekly, outside assistance to students

18-22 July 2006 – Instructor – 17th annual Rocky Mountain Music Technology Workshop University of Northern Colorado

aaaaaIntroduction to Sibelius Notation Software

12-16 July 2005 – Instructor – 16th annual Rocky Mountain Music Technology Workshop University of Northern Colorado

 aaaaaIntroduction to Sibelius Notation Software

 

Other Related Experience

September 2007 – present – Assistant to Steven Schick, conductor of La Jolla Symphony Orchestra   

 2007/2008 Academic year – Coordinator for two-part composer workshop residency with the The Kenners.        

August 2005 - May 2006 – Orchestral Manager: University of Northern Colorado Orchestras

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - Assistant conductor: University of Northern Colorado Orchestras

May 2005 - May 2006 – Assistant Manager: University of Northern Colorado Music Technology Center

August 2004 - August 2005 – Producer/Director: Colorado Contemporary Music Ensemble

 

 

Summer Festivals

5-20 July 2008 – 44th Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Germany

5-20 August 2006 – 43rd Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik Darmstadt, Germany

 

References

 Roger Reynolds

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA 92037

info@rogerreynolds.com

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Steve Schick

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA 92037

sschick@ucsd.edu

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Rand Steiger

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, CA 92037

rand@ucsd.edu

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Russell Guyver Professor of Music, Director of Orchestras

University of Northern Colorado

Greeley, CO, 80639

russell.guyver@unco.edu

 

Robert Ehle Professor of Music, Theory and Composition, Chair

University of Northern Colorado

Greeley, CO, 80639

robert.ehle@unco.edu

 

Jonathan Bellman Professor of Music, Music History, Chair

University of Northern Colorado

Greeley, CO, 80639

jonathan.bellman@unco.edu