CURRICULUM VITAE & ANNUAL REPORT OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES COMBINED
Anthony G. Holland
Associate Professor of Music
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Doctor of Musical Arts 1982 Cleveland
(Composition) Institute of Music
and Case
Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio
Master of Music 1982 Cleveland
Institute of Music
(Music Theory) and Case Western
Reserve University
Master of Music 1980 Cleveland
Institute of Music
(Composition) and Case Western
Reserve University
Bachelor of Music 1978 Baldwin-Wallace
College Conservatory
(Composition) of Music
Berea, Ohio
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English: fluent speaking/reading
German: advanced speaking/reading
Czech: beginner reading/speaking
Italian: beginner reading/speaking, some college work
Spanish: formerly intermediate level speaking/reading
Awards, Grants, Honors, Commissions, Reviews,
Invited Papers & Performances
* Grant: Meet the Composer Grant: for partial support of my
composition
"Four Poems for New England" for the 1993 National Flute
Association
Convention. Boston, Ma. August 1993
* Grant: New England Foundation for the Arts, for public appearance
and discussion of my music at the 1993 international Flute
Convention
Boston, Ma. August 1993
* Grant: Massachusetts Cultural Council, for partial support of my
composition
"Four Poems for New England" for the 1993 National Flute
Association
Convention. Boston, Ma. August 1993
*Grant: National Endowment for the Arts, for partial support of my
composition
"Four Poems for New England" for the 1993 National Flute
Association
Convention. Boston, Ma. August 1993
* Commission: work for solo flute and percussion, commissioned by the
National Flute Association for the 1993 NFA Boston
Convention:
"Four New England Poems"
* INVITED Performance of composition: "Three Poems Without Words",
for
flute, guitar and cello: National Flute Association
Convention, Boston 1993
* Invited article: "A Composer's Approach to Composing for Flute and
Electronic Technology", The Flutist Quarterly, (Winter) 1993
(Projected)
* Reviews: the Compact Disc of my work "Three Poems Without Words"
has received international attention and highly favorable
reaction from reviewers
around the world
* Inducted to membership in the Moravian Composer's Society, Brno,
Czech Republic, December 1992
* Finalist: in composition contest: "Prix de la Electroacoustique a
Programme" by the 18th Concours International de Musique
Electroacoustique of Bourges, [for my work: "Die Heiligenstadter
Testament"] France 1991
* Grant: Meet the Composer Grant: for rehearsals and public
appearances
associated with the Albany Symphony Orchestra performance
of my "Concerto for Piccolo and Orchestra". January 1990
* Commission: Incidental music for the play "Brecht on Brecht"
Skidmore College Theater Department: 1990
* Grant: W.M. Keck Foundation Grant for collaborative research
on the "BESSIE" program [with Jon Ryan '92] Skidmore College
1990
* Grants: Skidmore College Faculty Research Grants for music
composition work. 1984,86
* Awarded: Research Sabbatical Skidmore College 1988 -1989
for work as a Visiting Composer at Stanford University's
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
* Grant: Meet the Composer Grant: for rehearsals and public
appearances
associated with the Saratoga Springs High School performance
of my work "Saratoga Gallop" 1987
* Commission: Incidental music for the play "Red Noses", November
1989
Skidmore College Theater Department
* Invited Lecture/Performance: "Epitaxy'", for solo flute and
real-time computer
synthesizer (performance) and lecture entitled "Digital
Sampling and the Kurzweil 250: Today's Aesthetic Choices"
International Computer Music Conference. The Hague, The
Netherlands 1986
* Invited Participant: workshop - Synthesis and Composition on a
Real-time Digital
Synthesizer, Center for Computer Research in Music and
Acoustics,
Stanford University, Stanford, California. 1986
**[one of six composers selected world-wide]
* First Prize: Composition Contest: James-Madison University Flute
Choir
Composition Contest, for my work "Angstrom". 1984
PUBLICATIONS & RECORDINGS
* COMPOSITION:"Four Poems for New England" for solo flute, narrator
and percussion.
Cimarron Music, Dallas, Texas 1995
* COMPOSITION: "The Global Village Samba", under consideration for
publication
Cimarron Music, Dallas, Texas 1995
* COMPOSITION: "Nostradamus", under consideration for publication
Cimarron Music, Dallas, Texas 1995
* COMPOSITION: "Fanfare", under consideration for publication
Cimarron Music, Dallas, Texas 1995
* RECORDING: Compact Disc: "Five Premieres"
by Albany records, features my composition "Three Poems
Without Words".
This is an internationally distributed recording. Released
January 1993
* PAPER: "Digital Sampling and the Kurzweil 250: Today's Aesthetic
Choices",
in Proceedings of the 1986 International Computer Music
Conference,
The Hague, The Netherlands. 1986
* COMPOSITION: "Angstrom", for flute ensemble: Southern Music
Publications, San Antonio, Tx 1985
* COMPOSITION: "The Visions of Timberlaine", for flute ensemble,
Zalo, 1984
* COMPOSITION: "Three Poems Without Words", under consideration for
publication
by McGinnis & Marx
RECENT COMPOSITIONAL ACTIVITIES
* "Four Poems for New England" for solo flute, narrator and
percussion. COMMISSIONED by the National Flute Association 1993
* "Fanfare for 16 French Horns": Premiered Skidmore College: Spring
1993
* "Three Poems Without Words", for flute, guitar and cello
COMMISSIONED for an Albany Records Compact Disc Release
composed 1992
* "Suite for Solo Piano": January 1991
* Concerto for Piccolo: piccolo and orchestra 1990
* "Sun Flight": Concerto for flute ensemble and orchestra 1990
Commissioned by the El Camino Youth Symphony, Palo Alto, Ca
* "Die Heiligenstadt Testament" for computer generated tape and
baritone
voice using extended vocal techniques 1989 -1990
* "Minimal Breakdown": for Kurzweil 250 synthesizer and
"actor/performer" 1988
* "Saratoga Gallop": for Young Orchestra
Commissioned by the Saratoga Springs High School Orchestra
1988
* note: please see complete listing of compositions below
SELECTED PERFORMANCES (in which I was the performer)
* Performed percussion and narration in WORLD PREMIERE of my work
"Four Poems for New England", National Flute Association, Boston,
Ma. 1993
Four Poems: projected performance: May 1995, Salt Lake City
Utah
* Vocal Soloist: CANADIAN PREMIERE of "Die Heiligenstadt Testament",
my composition for voice and computer generated tape.
October 1991
International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, Canada
* Vocal Soloist: WORLD PREMIERE: "Die Heiligenstadt Testament"
my composition for voice and computer generated tape
Stanford University, July 1989
* Vocal Soloist: "Die Heiligenstadt Testament", Skidmore College,
December 1990
* Vocal Soloist: WORLD PREMIERE: "Die Heiligenstadt Testament"
for voice and computer generated tape. Stanford University,
July 1989.
* Guest Conductor: "Grass", by David Jaffe, for voices and computer
generated tape. Stanford University Electronic Music Concert,
November 1988.
* Kurzweil 250 Synthesizer Performer: In a performance of my work
"Epitaxy" for flute and Kurzweil Synthesizer. Stanford
University, 1988.
Selected Performances and Broadcasts of My Compositions
"We'll Drive the Machine into a Ditch"
projected performance: February 1995, Rutgers Univ.
Judith Nicosia Civitano, soprano
"The Global Village Samba", flute ensemble
1994 National Flute Association Convention, Kansas City
project performance: May 1994, Salt Lake City, Utah
"Three Poems Without Words", flute, guitar and cello
Radio broadcast: Sept. 20: "Croatia Radio", Zagreb, 1994
Radio broadcast: multiple broadcasts: July 1994, Brno, Czech
Republic
Various upstate NY colleges: Fall 1994
Rutgers: "Summerfest", International Music Festival, July
1994
Saratoga Springs, NY, Skidmore College: February 1994
The Pauling School, NYC 1994
Schenectady Community College, Schenectady, NY 1994
National Flute Association Convention, Boston, Ma. August
1993
several performances in the upstate NY area including:
SUNY Cobleskill. 1993
Keuka College, Penn Yan, NY. 1992
"171 Cedar Art Center", Corning, NY. 1992
"The Visions of Timberlaine", for flute ensemble and narrator
James-Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va. October 1993
University of North Carolina, 1981
University of Oklahoma, 1980
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, march 1980
University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Debember 1979
James-Madison University, November 1979
Bennington College, Vermont, August 1979
The New York Flute Club, December 1978
Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music, January 1978
"Four Poems for New England", for flute, narrator & percussion
WORLD PREMIERE: August 1993
1993 National Flute Association Convention, Boston, Ma.
Projected performance: May 1995, Salt Lake City, Utah
"Concerto for Piccolo": WORLD PREMIERE (new version) for piano and
piccolo
(reduced from the original version for orchestra
and piccolo)
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 1993
Orchestral Version: Albany, NY, Albany Symphony Orchestra Jan. & Feb.
1990
Radio broadcast: WMHT FM, Albany, NY, March 1990
Central Washington University, February 1990
Cleveland Institute of Music 1990
"Sun Flight", for flute ensemble and orchestra
Carnegie Hall, NYC, NY, El Camino Youth Symphony, June 1990
Los Altos, Ca, El Camino Youth Symphony May 1989
Los Altos, Ca, El Camino Youth Symphony June 1989
Saratoga Springs, NY, Skidmore Orchestra, December 1990
"Suite for Solo Piano", several performances in upstate NY region
by soloist Pola Baytelman: February & March 1991
Skidmore College, Union College, Hyde Museum Concert
Series
"Epitaxy", for flute and Kurzweil 250 Synthesizer (alternate version
flute+tape)
Skidmore College Summer Flute Institute: July 1994
Stanford University (sponsored by the Center for Computer
Research
in Music and Acoustics), December 1988
London, England, May 1987
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, October & June 1987
International Computer Music Conference, The Hague, The
Netherlands, October 1986
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, January 1986
"Angstrom", for flute ensemble
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, November 1993
Beijing, China, National Flute Association's China Tour,
August 1987
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 1987
National High School Flute Ensemble, National Flute
Convention
Chicago, Ill. August 1985
University of California, Redlands, Ca. , August 1985
University of Tampa, Tamp, Florida, June 1985
James-Madison University, March 1985
"Incidental music for Brecht on Brecht", Skidmore Theater Dept. 1990
Composition Recital: including performances of "Epitaxy", "Four
Scencens",
and world premieres of "Three Movements for Solo Guitar",
"Concerto for Solo Piano", and songs from opera-in-progress "The
Mad Woman of Chaillot",
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. 1987
"Four Scencens" for solo marimba and computer-generated tape
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 1987
The XV Annual International Electronic Music Plus Festival,
Kansas City,
Missouri, 1985 [this performance is mentioned in "High
Fidelity" magazine]
The Cleveland Institute of Music, 1982
Premiere Performance: orchestral arrangement of an Armenian Folk
Song
[voice and orchestra], Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY.
1985
"Four Scencens", "The Screams of Saturn" & "Slaughter of The
Innocent",
works for electronic tape performed at the SEAMUS [Society
for Electro-Acoustic
Music in the United States] Festival, California Institute of
the Arts. 1985
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Music Center
Broadcast Music Inc. [BMI]
National Flute Association [NFA]
International Computer Music Association [ICMC]
Minnesota Composers Forum
Moravian Composer Society, Brno, Czech Republic
College Music Society
Compositions by Anthony Holland:
* = Commissioned work
FP = First Performance
"The Global Village Samba"
for flute ensemble
FP: August 1994, Kansas City
National Flute Association Convention
*Four Poems for New England 1993
for solo flute, percussion and narrator
FP: August 1993, Boston, Ma
National Flute Association Convention
Fanfare for 16 French Horns 1993
FP: April 1993, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
*Concerto for Piccolo 1992
new version for piano and piccolo
FP: March 1993, Skidmore College
*Three Poems Without Words 1992
for flute, guitar and cello
commissioned for Albany Records by guitarist Joel Brown
FP: CobleSkill, NY 1992
Joel Brown, guitar; Ann Alton, Cello; Jan Vinci, Flute
Suite for Solo Piano 1991
FP: Skidmore College, March 1991
Pola Baytleman, soloist
*Sun Flight 1990
a concerto for flute ensemble and orchestra
FP: Palo Alto, California 1990
El Camino Youth Symphony
Die Heiligenstadt Testament 1989-90
for voice and computer generated tape
FP: July 1990, Stanford University, Stanford, Ca.
Minimal Breakdown 1988
for live computer instrument and one keyboard player
FP: May 1988, Saratoga Springs, NY
Skidmore College
Charles Joseph, Kurzweil 250 digital synthesizer
Three Pieces for Solo Guitar 1987
FP: October 1987, Saratoga Springs, NY
Skidmore College
Joel Brown, guitar
Concerto for Solo Piano 1987
FP: October 1987, Saratoga Springs, NY
Skidmore College
Renee Hostetler, piano
We'll Drive the Machine into a Ditch & Aurelia's Revenge 1987
two "concert arias" for soprano from the opera-in-progress
"The Madwoman of Chaillot"
FP: October 1987, Saratoga Springs, NY
Skidmore College
Maria Argyros, soprano
Et Facta Est Lux for SSA chorus 1987
FP: September 1987, Saratoga Springs, NY
written in honor of the inauguration of Dr. David Porter
as President of Skidmore College.
Skidmore College Chorus
The Master Singers for SSA chorus 1987
FP: April 1987, Saratoga Springs, NY
Skidmore College Chorus
*Saratoga Gallop for orchestra 1987
FP: December 1987, Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga High School Orchestra
*Ancient Wonders for orchestra 1986
FP: April 1986, Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga High School Orchestra
Suite for Computer-Generated Sound 1986