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David Heetderks
Awards, commissions, and highlights
2006 Commission from Connecticut division of Music Teachers' National Association2005 Commission from Live Music Project
2005 Young Composers' Award from ASCAP Foundation
2005 Winner, Renee B. Fisher Composers' Competition, High School Division
2004 Commission by ACES Educational Center for the Arts for choral work
2003 Commission by Loop 243 for work for percussion trio and violoncello
2003 Co–coordinator of Sound Underground, a festival of new music and poetry
2003 Participant at Music03, Cincinnati
2003 Commissioned by the Group 435 String Orchestra
2002 Green Suite featured at the EARPLAY series in Berkeley, California
2001 Commission by Gemini Duo
2001 Ukifune recorded by Clogs on their album “Thom’s Night Out”
2000 Frances E. Osborne Kellogg Memorial Prize (Yale University, for the best composition in a contrapuntal style)
1998 Woods Chandler Memorial Prize (Yale University, for an outstanding piece in a large form)
1996 Presser Foundation Award (University of Maryland, College Park, for outstanding scholarship in the humanities)
1996 First Place, Homer Ulrich Soloist competition, string division (University of Maryland, College Park)
For more information see list of works.
Performance Experience
| 2004–2005 | Fairfield, CT |
| Performed as part of the Live Music Project, a conductorless string orchestra | |
| 2001–present | New Haven, CT |
| Performed as part of Sound Underground concert series (formerly New Haven Worx). Premiered works for solo viola by John Orfe and Alphonse Izzo | |
| 2002–2003 | New Haven, CT |
| Performed as part of Group 435, a conductor–less string orchestra that premiered new works or arrangements by Chen Yi, Evan Ziporyn, and Padma Newsome | |
Education
| 2005–2007 | University of Michigan, Ph.D. Music Theory Program |
| Enrolled in Doctoral program in Music Theory | |
| 1999–2000 | Yale School of Music, Master of Musical Arts program |
| Studied composition with Alvin Singleton and David Del Tredici; completed dissertation “A Hierarchical Interpretation of Jean–Claude Risset’s Sud” (an analysis of Risset’s work based on the Generative Theory of Music developed by Lerdahl and Jackendoff) | |
| 1997–1999 | Yale School of Music, Master of Music program |
| Studied composition with Evan Ziporyn, Ned Rorem, and Ezra Laderman | |
| 1993–1997 | University of Maryland, College Park, Bachelor of Music program |
| Studied composition with Robert Gibson and Mark Wilson; studied viola with Daniel Foster and Roberto Diaz | |
Teaching Experience
| 2006–present | University of Michigan School of Music |
| Instructor in undergraduate aural skills for music 149 and 249. | |
| Summer 2006 | University of Michigan School of Music Education |
| Taught 6-week summer course in music theory review. | |
| 2003–2005 | ACES Educational Center for the Arts |
| Taught AP Music Theory, Instrumental Music Composition, and introduction to Theory and Musicianship with Practica Musica at arts magnet program in New Haven. | |
| 2000–2002 | Yale School of Music |
| Taught music 499, a class in hearing, analysis, and musicianship. | |
| 1999–2000 | Yale Department of Music |
| Instructor in undergraduate aural skills for Music 210 and Music 211. | |
Other Work Experience
| 1999–present | New Haven, CT |
| Editorial Associate and Media Technician for Oral History, American Music, an archiving project that conducts and archives interviews with American composers. Editorial and research assistant for Voices of America’s Musical Century, a book and CD publication on Twentieth Century American concert music. Assistant for fundraising, helped to prepare proposal that resulted in a grant from the Federal Save America’s Treasures program. | |
Professional Affiliations
- American Music Center
- Chamber Music America
- American Composers Forum
- American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
- Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Society for Music Theory