CHRISTOPHER ALLEN PAUL FULKERSON, PH.D.
Composer, Conductor, Writer on Music, Teacher
CURRICULUM VITAE
A Selective List
Address available upon request
Home (650)343-3760
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The sections of this CV are: Skills; Education; Academic and Professional Experience; Compositions; Performance Repertoire; Published Recordings; Published Materials; Honors and Awards; Recommendations; Scores and Recordings in Research Collections; Web Links.
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SKILLS
Musical Composition
And Related Theoretical Disciplines
Conducting
Especially Contemporary Music and Opera
Includes Several Published Recordings
Music and Art Criticism
Musicianship
Computer Music (Midi; Beginning Website Design)
EDUCATION
PhD Music: The University of California at Berkeley, 1986
Dissertation: THE RECOGNITIONS for orchestra 1985
MA Music: The University of California at Berkeley, 1979
Thesis: CONCERTO FOR HARPSICHORD, 1979
BMus Conservatory of Music, The University of the Pacific, 1976
Double Major in Theory/Composition and Music History
Double Concentration in Piano and Guitar
Also: Voice
Composition Studies with Andrew Imbrie,
S.R. “Dan” Beckler, Olly Wilson, Richard Felciano,
Walter Winslow, Edwin Dugger, John Thow
Master Classes with Hans Werner Henze; Oliver Knussen;
Charles Wuorinen; Bernard Rands; Morton Feldman; Lejaren Hiller; Earle Brown
Occasional Studies with Elliott Carter, Bernard Rands, and Anthony Milner
Master Classes in Conducting with Harold Farberman
Conducting and Schenker Studies with Michael Senturia; James Dixon
Counterpoint with William Denny; Criticism with Joseph Kerman
Anton Webern with Walter Winslow; Acoustics with Richard Felciano
Voice and Opera with George Buckbee
Continuing Education:
U.C Extension Courses(2006-07): Norse Myth and Saga I and II; The Odyssey; The Iliad
Stanford Continuing Studies Beginning Website Design Class 2003, Course Grade, A; Dreamweaver Course, Grade, A
Cortina Institute (“Famous Writer’s School”) Writing Course 2002-04
Private Greek and Sanskrit Studies with Paul Howard Brown, 1996-98
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching
2/2006-3/2007 Director of Academic Studies
The San Francisco Institute of Music
1/2000-6/2000 Visiting Instructor in Music
The University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music
Stockton, California
1980-Present Private Teaching, Musical Composition
9/95-2/96 Mentor in High School Musical Composition Project
Christopher Allen, student in Olympia, Washington
8/82-3/91 Founder and Director, Musicianship Program
The San Francisco Girls Chorus
6/85-2/91 Instructor, The University of California Extension
Music Appreciation and UC Extension Singers
6/86-2/91 Self Employment: Music Appreciation Classes
Course Outlines are Available Upon Request:
History of Music
Contemporary Music
The Music of Brahms
American Transcendentalist Composers
Wagner
The Beethoven String Quartets
The String Quartets of Schoenberg and Bartok
6/85-6/86 Instructor, The Music and Arts Institute of San Francisco
8/82-12/82 Lecturer B (Assoc. Prof.), San Jose State University
Sabbatical Replacement of Brent Heisinger,
Head, Theory Division
Courses Presently Called:
Music Systems 1,2,3, and 4
Form and Analysis 103B (Former 146B)
Music Appreciation 10A
9/81-6/82 Associate in Music: Musicianship Instructor
The University of California at Berkeley
9/80-9/82 Contributing Editor for Music, The Berkeley Graduate
9/80-6/81 Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Music
The University of California at Berkeley
Assitant to Lawrence Moe, Daniel Heartz, and Bonnie Wade; Total of Thirteen Classes
9/79-6/77 Director, Stockton Sol-Fa Music Classes for Children
Professional
9/2005-12/2006 Bass Section Leader, Viva La Musica Choir
Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California
Austrian Tour of Salzburg and Vienna, December, 2006
3/1999-Present Midi Computer Music Studio
Principally with Encore Program about 50 realizations complete
Power Macintosh with Os. 9.; SK-88 Pro Keyboard sound source
1/94-Present President, ChristopherFulkerson.com
On Demand Publication of Works of CF
Initially called White Sphere Group Publications
2/1999-8/2000 Principal Conductor, The San Francisco Lyric Opera
Conductor of Full Productions of SIEGFRIED,
FIDELIO, CARMEN, CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA AND I PAGLIACCI
Cast and coach singers; run rehearsals; form orchestra; etc.)
5/96-8/98 Cantor, Schola Gregoriana of San Francisco
Two Concert Tours as Guest of the
Mexican Government; State of Puebla, Mexico
1/95-7/95 Computer Music Studio of John Caston, San Francisco
8/88-10-88 Composer Fellow, The Tanglewood Music Festival, The Boston Symphony
1/82-5/88 Founder and Music Director
ARIEL, a Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
Numerous reviews and programs available upon request
6/86-5/88 Founder and Music Director
The Composers Chamber Players
Reviews and programs available upon request
9/85-5/86 Founder and Director, the UC Extension Singers
9/81-7/84 Associate Conductor,
The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
6/88 Composer-in-Residence, the June in Buffalo Festival
8/87 Participant, Composer/Conductor Program
Conductor’s Guild Summer Institute
University of South Carolina at Columbia
6/87 Composer-in-Residence, The June in Buffalo Festival
8/86 Participant, Composer/Conductor Program
Conductor’s Guild Summer Institute, The University of West Virginia
6/86 Participant, Contemporary Music Festival
California State University at Long Beach
12/85-1/86 Composer-in-Residence
The Layton Artist’s Colony, The Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, Canada
8/75 Participant in Vocal Performance
Internationales Jugendfestspieltreffens, Bayreuth, Germany
Also Attended Richard Wagner Fest, Bayreuth, Germany
Community and Church Work and Employment
8/14/2009 Granted San Francisco Taxicab Medallion #43
SF Municipal Transit Authority
3/2006 Granted San Francisco Taxicab Medallion #9073
Unanimous Vote by the SF Taxi Commission
8/2004-12/2005 Editor, Luxor Newsletter. Monthly.
2/02-Present Driver, Luxor Cab Company
9/99-10/03 Music Director, St. Gregory’s Catholic Church, San Mateo, CA
Direction of Two Choirs; Preparation of CD; Position also involved piano performance; commissioned compositions; arranging
7/98-Present Member, Committee of 1,000; St. Joseph Foundation
6/93-2/02 Driver, Yellow Cab Co-Op, San Francisco
10/2000 Chorus Member, Cathedral Choir,
Archdiocesan Millenium Mass; San Francisco
9/92-2/93 Tour Driver, Cable Car Charters, San Francisco
3/92-6/92 Tour Bus Driver Guide, The Gray Line, San Francisco
7/91-3/92 Driver, Yellow Cab Co-Op, San Francisco
10/88-3/92 Music Director, Christ United Presbyterian
Church, Japantown, San Francisco
9/88-6/89 Music Director, Christ Lutheran Church, San Lorenzo,CA
9/85-3/88 Music Director, St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco
2/83-2/88 Tenor Soloist, Church of Christ the Saviour
Convent of Our Lady of St. Vladimir, San Francisco
Russian Orthodox Services, Slavonic in Kyrillic script
3/84-9/84 Music Director, Ebenezar Lutheran Church, El Cerrito
9/82-3/84 Music Director, St. Raymond’s Catholic Church, San Ramon
9/81-6/82 Music Director, Grace Presbyterian Church, Walnut Creek
3/81-9/81 Music Director, St. James Lutheran Church, San Leandro
10/78-9/80 Music Driector, First Congregational Church, Alameda
9/76-6/77 Music Director, Grace Presbyterian Church, Stockton
9/74-6/76 Music Director, Immanual Lutheran Church, Stockton
Community Involvement
2008-Present Editor, Wikipedia
2000-Present Consultant, Medianet Music Appreciation Project,
In Conjunction with Naxos Records, mmm@medianet.pl.
1997-1998 Founder, the Party of Universal Responsibility
1987-1989 Founding Member, Planning Committee
The San Francisco New Music Calendar
9/88-12-89 Member, Plan Development Group
to recommend an Arts Policy Plan for the City of San Francisco
The San Francisco Arts Commission
With the San Francisco Planning Commission
And the State/Local Partnership
7/86-2/88 Chairman, Music Programming Committee
The Waterfront Theater Project, Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco
1985-1988 Board of Directors, American Concert Association
5/86 Adjudicator, Scholarship Program, the SF Musical Club
9/84-6/85 Consultant, American Institute of Architects for
SETTINGS: A Celebration of the Urban Arts. Festival June 1985
In Conjunction with the 1985 National AIA Convention
6/84 Adjudicator, SF Young Pianists Competition, San Francisco State University
1/83-6/83 Producer, Spring Concert Series, Saint Raymond’s Catholic Church
COMPOSITIONS
Works marked with an asterisk* are part of a multi-event music festival work in progress
Commissions Outstanding
For Emily Stern, of Zurich, Switzerland: a song cycle
Dramatic Compositions
A MIRACLE OF RARE DEVICE* (2001-03) (Bradbury)
Dramatic Recital in Three Acts
For soprano, clarinet, and piano
For Concert or Stage Performance
Music for Orchestra
MOYS ICOS (2006-2008)
THE CAVERNS OF THE SACRED RIVER* (1988)
For string orchestra with percussion
THE RECOGNITIONS (1985)
Music for Voices with Instruments
ECHOES OF T.S.ELIOT (1976-2004) for soprano and piano
SONGS, BOOK ONE: A.R.AMMONS POEMS (2001-present)
For tenor and guitar (Collection in Progress)
Talking – Gain – Muse
SONGS, BOOK TWO: POEMS BY VARIOUS POETS (2001-Present)
For tenor and guitar (Collection in Progress)
To Artemis – Tiburon
KUBLA KHAN* (2002) (Coleridge) for tenor, alto flute, viola, and guitar
THE HIDDEN LAW, LIKE LOVE* (1995) (Auden) for tenor and guitar
Law Like Love – Interlude – The Hidden Law
THE TRUTH ABOUT CINDERELLA* (1988) (Roger Mitchell)
For mezzo with quartet of viola, guitar, and two clarinets
Written for a Tanglewood Liederabend for Hans Werner Henze
ONE WINTER SPARROW* (1988) (W.S.Merwin)
Soprano, treble chorus, and piano
REMEMBER THE STARS* (1985) (W.S.Merwin)
For SATB soloists and treble chorus with viola, guitar and two clarinets
SCRITTI DI LEONARDO* (1983) (Italian text by Leonardo da Vinci)
For tenor solo, SATB quartet, flute, bass clarinet, viola, guitar, and harp
NIGHT LITANY* (1981) (Ezra Pound)
For mezzo soprano, flute, bassoon, and percussion
SO THAT* (1981) (Ezra Pound: Canto XVII)
For soprano, mezzo soprano and baritone soloists and chamber orchestra
RHAPSODY CONCERTANTE (1978) (Latin text by Catullus)
Chamber Music for Instruments
THE SWEEP OF THEIR LYRE (2009) for piano, two harps, electric guitar, chimes, vibraphone, and marimba (doubling xylophone)
Part Two of ECHOES OF OUR BARDS
CEREMONIAL III* (2004) for oboe, trumpet, horn, and cello
CEREMONIAL II* (2000) for flute and bassoon
Commissioned by Katharine Hammond
DEL SUO PEL CONTESTA* (1996) (“With Its Billowing Hair”)
Fourth Michelangelo Fantasy
Commissioned by John Casten
Cadenzas and Miniatures for violin solo, two violins and two violas
DOMES* (1996) A Study of Del Suo Pel Contesta
Third Michelangelo Fantasy; For three players of thirty cymbals
L’ALTRUI MAN VESTE* (1995) (“Clothes Another’s Hand”)
Second Michelangelo Fantasy; for string trio
WILLOW, or, FREEDOM’S FAVOR’S FALCONER* (1995)
For four recorders or four melody instruments
Commissioned by the Prairie Pipes
DUO NEVI* (1993) “(Two Snows”) for violin and contrabass
First Michelangelo Fantasy
E PIU DI CENTO SPIRTI* (1989) (“And More Than A Hundred Spirits”)
Quartet for harp, glockenspiel, vibraphone, and marimba
Companion piece for L’UCCEL DIVINO for harp
MA PER QUEL POCO* (1988) (“But Through That Small Space”)
Third Purgatory Sonata, octet
Written at the Request of Oliver Knussen
LA TURBA CHE RIMASE LI* (1988)
(“The Crowd That Remained There”)
Second Purgatory Sonata, trio for viola, harp, and percussion
OH OMBRE, VANE* (1988) (“Oh Vain Shades”)
First Purgatory Sonata, quartet for viola, guitar, and two clarinets
THE CHILDERMASS* (1986)
Septet for two clarinets, horn, violin, bass, and percussion
Written for The Composers Chamber Players
SAINT PEREGRINE’S CONCERTO* (1987)
Chamber Concerto, for bass clarinet and percussion
Written for the Duo Contemporaine (Amsterdam)
A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY* (1985)
For two antiphonal woodwind quartets
Commissioned by David Hall
CANTILENA DI FIORITURE* (1980) (“Florid Cantilation”)
Duodecimet for brass; Written for the UC Concert Band
CONCERTO FOR HARPSICHORD AND SEVEN INSTRUMENTS (1979)
With oboe, clarinet, mandolin, guitar, harp, violin and viola
First Prize in the US System I.C.E. Competition (Which See)
CAPRICCIO (1980) for viola and piano
Music for Vocal Ensembles
CELESTIAL SIXTIES II (2009) for male sextet
Texts by Thomas Pynchon, Robert Hunter, Buddhist and Gregorian Sources
MISSA PRO OMNIS ERGO QUI AUDIT* (1997)
(“A ‘Sending’ For Anyone Who Will Listen”)
Mass in six movements for two concelebrants, soloists and chorus
IN IMAGINE PERTRANSIT* (1976/1994) (“We Move About As In Dreams”)
For four soloists and double chorus; Latin text from the Vulgate
Written at the request of Rabbi Bernard Rosenberg
MAGICA MEZZA MUSICA* (1995) (“Medium Magic Music”)
Paganini Variations for antiphonal female octet
Text from the Hebrew Names of God
MERA MUSICA MAGICA* (1990) (“Sheer Magic Music”)
Paganini Variations for antiphonal female octet
Text from the Hebrew Names or God
CELESTIAL SIXTIES I* (1990) for male sextet
Texts by Bob Dylan, Melanie, and Buddhist Chant
Commissioned by Chantilcleer
AT THE PARTY (1990) (W.H.Auden) for SSAA voices
EIN BLUEMLEIN (1989) (German text by Maria Brubacher) for chorus
E IO ETTERNO DURO* (1986) (“And Eternal I Endure”) (Italian text
by Dante) For male sextet; Commissioned by Chanticleer
THE SCREAM THAT PEAKS PAST FEAR* (1986) for antiphonal octet
Written for Ariel
ECHOES OF HART CRANE (1984) for vocal octet; Written for Ariel
Commissioned through the American Institute of Architects
For the SETTINGS Festival (Which See)
Opus One Records release in preparation
THE WHITE STAG* (1982) (Ezra Pound) for chorus or SATB soli
Solo Music
SUITE for Violoncello (1999-2005)
DIPTYCH for Trumpet (2004)
SONATA for Oboe (1999-2004)
CEREMONIAL I for Violoncello (1998)
SONATA (1998) for violin
HEBREW SETTINGS* (1995-present) for voice
Biriashiyithu; Aritsa; Shimeai; Psalm 117
L’UCCEL DIVINO* (1998) (“The Divine Bird”) for harp
Companion piece for E PIU DI CENTO SPIRTI for quartet
THE VIRGIN IN THE FIELDS* (1981) Flute Study in Florid Line
CAPRICCIO for viola and piano 1980
VIOLIN FANTASY Palimpsest on Bach (1979)
PIANO SONATA (1976)
SONATINA (1976) for violin
Arrangements
WHAT’S BECOME OF THE BABY (Garcia/Hunter) (2008)
For Voice, Violin, Cello, and Guitar
ARRANGMENTS OF BEETHOVEN FOLKSONGS (2007-2008)
For Voice, Violin, Cello, and Guitar
UTILITY MUSIC and TEACHING MATERIALS
SWEET LITTLE JESUS BOY (2003) for chorus
THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (2002) for two equal voices
MASS OF THE RESURRECTION (2001) for Unison Choir and Piano
Commissioned by the St. Gregory’s Choir
SYRINGA* (1997) for flute
AVE* (1992) for harp
PSALM 26 (1989) (In English) for chorus
THE LANTERN IN THE CRYPT* (1988) for double string orchestra
HYMNS (1985-present)
VOCAL MUSICIANSHIP
Third Edition 1990 in Three Volumes, ca. 400 pages
Musicianship Method for ages 6-Adult; Used by the author in teaching
A MUSIC THEORY AND SIGHT-SINGING CURRICULUM(Which See)
For the San Francisco Girls Chorus
THE SCHOOL OF VELOCITY Vocal Musicianship Exercises
TRANSCENDENTAL ETUDES Musician Exercises
200 Two- and Three-Part Dictation Exercises
LISTENING TO MUSIC or MUSIC AS IT IS
A Music Appreciation Course in the form of a history survey
PERFORMING EDITIONS
Performances Given by Ariel under CAPF’s direction
Orlando di Lasso PROPHETIAE SIBYLLARUM motet cycle (1552)
A reading emphasizing the work’s madrigalistic and ensemble devices
Gerald Humel ET IN TERRA PAX (1987)
An idiomatic edition of this work, commissioned by CAPF
PERFORMANCE REPERTOIRE
As conductor unless otherwise indicated
Operas and theater pieces are of full productions unless otherwise indicated
This list does not include the repertoire of twenty six years of
work with amateur choruses at churches and other venues
OPERA
Works in Alphabetical Order by Composer
FIDELIO by Ludwig van Beethoven, 1814 version in German; three casts
Conductor; Eight performances in 2000
San Francisco Lyric Opera; McAteer Theater, San Francisco
FIDELIO by Ludwig van Beethoven; 1805 version (West Coast Premiere)
Chorus Master; The Berkeley Opera
CARMEN by Georges Bizet; in French; three casts
Conductor; Nine performances in 1999
San Francisco Lyric Opera; Victoria Theater, San Francisco
THE DEVIL AND KATE by Antonin Dvorak
Chorus Master; the Berkeley Opera
THE SCARLET LETTER by Martin Herman; concert performance
Conductor; UC Berkeley Music Department Noon Concert
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA by Pietro Mascagni; in Italian
I PAGLIACCI by Ruggiero Leoncavallo; In Italian
Conductor; Double-Bill with the SFLO at the McAteer Theater, 2000
THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE BY HER BATCHELORS, EVEN
By Charles Shere; Chorus Master and Second Conductor; Mills College
LUISA MILLER by Giuseppe Verdi
Chorus Master; The Berkeley Opera
SIEGFRIED by Richard Wagner; in German; two casts
Conductor; Six performances in 2000;
San Francisco Lyric Opera; McAteer Theater, San Francisco
THE GROWING CASTLE by Malcolm Williamson
Baritone II soloist; performances in California and Bayreuth, Germany
WORKS COMMISSIONED AND PERFORMED BY CAPF
For Ariel, A Contemporary Vocal Ensemble; All World Premiere Performances
Robert Basart (American) STILLNESS AND THE NIGHT BECOME vocal octet
Gerald Humel (German) ET IN TERRA PAX for vocal octet
Charles Shere (American) REQUIEM WITH OBOE
for vocal octet with oboe
Opus One Records recording in preparation
Ezra Sims (American) THE CONVERSIONS for vocal octet
Anatol Vieru (Romanian) OH, THAT YOU WERE LIKE A BROTHER TO ME for vocal octet
OTHER REPERTOIRE
Milton Babbitt
AN ELIZABETHAN SEXTETTE for female voices; Local Premiere
MORE PHONEMENA for twelve voices; World Premiere
Luciano Berio
A-RONNE for vocal octet; Local Premiere
Preparation, theatrical direction, conductor and baritone soloist
CRIES OF LONDON for vocal octet
Pierre Boulez
LE MARTEAU SANS MAITRE for mezzo and instruments
MESSAGESQUISSE for cello solo and cello ensemble
William Byrd
MASS FOR THREE VOICES
Elliott Carter
SYRINGA for mezzo, baritone, guitar soloists and orchestra
Local Premiere; two separate preparations
TRIPLE DUO for Pierrot ensemble with percussion
Peter Maxwell Davies
ALMA REDEMPTORIS MATER for chorus; local premiere
AVE PLENA GRATIA for chorus; local premiere
THE LORD’S PRAYER for chorus; local premiere
THE MEDIUM theater piece: mezzo soprano; CAPF coach; US Premiere
VESALII ICONES for male dancer, cello solo, and players
Two separate full productions
WESTERLINGS large choral cycle; American Premiere
Claude Debussy
TROIS CHANSONS DE CHARLES D’ORLEANS for chorus
Norman Dinerstein
CINQUE LAUDE PER CORO MISTO
Vivian Fine
TEISHO oratorio; West Coast Premiere
Christopher Fulkerson
About two dozen of the works given their World Premiere performances
Don Carlo Gesualdo
MADRIGALI LIBRO VI
Paul Hindemith
DER SCHWANNENDREHER viola concerto, arr. Wilbur Sudmeier
KYRIE from MASS
Hans Holewa
CONCERTINO VIII for Chamber ensemble; World Premiere
Laszlo Kalmar
HORA EIUS for three sopranos
Opus One Records recording in preparation
Hi Kyung Kim
STRING QUARTET WITH A SOPRANO World Premiere
Gyoergy Kurtag
A LITTLE PREDICAMENT Local Premiere
SCENES FROM A NOVEL American Premiere
S.K. REMEBRANCE NOISE Local Premiere
Robert Hall Lewis
KANTATEN Local Premiere
Olivier Messiaen
O SACRUM CONVIVIUM! For chorus
Luigi Nono
SARA DOLCE TACERE for vocal octet; Local Premiere
Nigel Osborne
CHORALIS I for vocal quintet
CHORALIS II for vocal quintet
CHORALIS III for vocal quintet
American Premieres; Also, Baritone Soloist
Bernard Rands
OBLIGATO MEMO 2C for trombone and string quartet;
Local Premiere
Aribert Reiman
JOHN III, 16 for chorus; American Premiere
Opus One Records recording in preparation
John Donald Robb
REQUIEM for chorus and organ
Recording: Opus One #114
Laszlo Sary
INCANTO for vocal quintet; American Premiere
Arnold Schoenberg
PIERROT LUNAIRE for voice and instrumentalists
Heinrich Schuetz
JOHANNESPASSION (Oratorio)
William Schuman
CAROLS OF DEATH for chorus
Ruth Crawford Seeger
CHANT 1930 for soprano and chorus
Roger Sessions
MASS For Unison Chorus and Organ
Opus One Records recording in preparation
C. James Sheppard
LUMINARIA (Sky Music)
for soprano, tape, and instrumentalists
Local Premiere
Recording: Opus One #126
Smith, Lani
THE DARK HOURS, Tenebrae Cantata, SATB Chorus and Piano
Igor Stravinsky
ANTHEM, THE DOVE DESCENDING for chorus
AVE MARIA for chorus
Richard Strauss
DIE GOETTIN IM PUTZZIMMER for vocal octet
David Vayo
SALMOS for voice and instruments; World Premiere
Anton Webern
KONZERT for nine instruments
Willan, Healey
RESPONSARIES FOR THE OFFICES OF TENEBRAE for chorus
Walter Winslow
NINETEEN MADRIGALS for five voices
Cori descrittivi di statti di animo di Didone; World Premiere
Recording: Opus One #131
Stefan Wolpe
PIECE IN TWO PARTS FOR SIX PLAYERS; Local Premiere
Charles Wuorinen
ARABIA FELIX Local Premiere
OTHER PERFORMANCE REPERTOIRE
Concert, NON NOBIS DOMINE, 12/16/2001, Choir of St. Gregory’s
Roman Catholic Church, San Mateo, California
Works of Bruckner, Messiaen, Janacek, Stravinsky, Holst, Sowerby, ives, Byrd, etc.
Concert, A CHRISTMAS JUBILEE, 12/3/2000,
Choir of St. Gregory’s Roman Catholic Church, San Mateo, California
Works of Holst, Sowerby, Palestrina, Janacek, et cetera
Concert, CHRISTOPHER FULKERSON AND HIS FRIENDS
5/29/1998 at Fulkerson Recital Hall, Humboldt State Univ.
5/30/1998 at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco
Works of CF, including two “Magic” and three Michelangelo pieces
PUBLISHED RECORDINGS
MODERNISM FOREVER, Double CD Set
Nine works composed by CF, and one each by Babbitt, Carter, and Davies, with CF conducting
Released in 2006. First pressing of 300 copies sold out
St. Gregory’s Choirs NON NOBIS DOMINE (CD) (12/16/2001)
Works of Fulkerson, Janacek, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Bruckner, Mozart, Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, Lasso, Victoria, Sowerby, etc.
24-page program guide by CF. Edition of 600 copies sold out
“This CD is wonderful. It is nothing short of a masterpiece.”
(Anonymous internet reviewer)
Walter Winslow
NINETEEN MADRIGALS for five voices
Cori descrittivi di stati d’animo di Didone; World Premiere
Recording: Opus One #131
A limited number of copies are available from CF
C. James Sheppard
LUMINARIA (Sky Music) for soprano, tape, and instrumentalists
Local Premiere
Recording: Opus One #126
John Donald Robb
REQUIEM for Chorus and Organ; Opus One #114
PUBLISHED MATERIALS
Articles About, and Interviews With, CF
Article, “Driving San Francisco Sane,” by Curt Sanburn
SF Weekly, Volume 24, No. 22: June 29-July 5, 2005
Earlier, unpublished interview with CF quoted several times
Brief Article, “Christopher Fulkerson,” NEWS AND NOTES,
Newsletter of the Wagner Society of Northern California, volume VI Number 3, September 2001. Summary of April 28, 2001, lecture.
Listing, DICTIONARY OF INTERNATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, 29th Edition
Melrose Press Limited, Cambridge;
info@melrosepress.co.uk; Reg. #965274
Listing, WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD, 17th Edition, 2000;
Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, N.J.
Brief Quotation of CF, in Silke Tudor’s “Night Crawler” column,
Re Blessing of Cabs at St. Boniface Church;
San Francisco Weekly Magazine, Sept. 8-14, 1999, p. 10.
“Christopher Fulkerson And His Friends To Appear at Fulkerson Hall”
ARTWAVES Program, Interview with Wendy Butler
KHSU Radio, Arcata, May 29, 1998
“Christopher Fulkerson, a Vocal Composer With Heart and Soul”
Mitch Hampton, Interview with CAPF
ORGANICA Magazine, Tampa, Summer 1989
“An Interview With the Composer Christopher Fulkerson”
Marilyn Pittman, THE WELLNESS PROGRAM
KQED FM Radio, San Francisco, October 3, 1988
“San Francisco: Chanticleer, Ariel”
Article by Paul Moor, MUSICAL AMERICA, New York, November 1986
“Upcoming Events”
Gordon Engler, Interview with CF
KKHI FM Radio, San Francisco, April 4, 1986
“Popularizing the New”
Article by Gina Arnold, SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY, January 1985
“Fulkerson Blitz”
Four Hours of Music, Conversation and Readings
With Barbara Golden, CRACK O’DAWN Program
“A Conversation with CF About His Recent Work”
Charles Amirkhanian with CF
KPFA FM Radio, Berkeley, May 3, 1985
Published References to Christopher Fulkerson
NEWS AND NOTES Volume VIII Number 4, December 2003;
Newsletter of the Wagner Society of Northern California; Announcement of the 2/28/04 reading of A MIRACLE OF RARE DEVICE.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BORDER - Email Newsletter of
Borderlands Bookstore, 866 Valencia Street, San Francisco, in the months prior to the 2/28/2004 reading done there by CF. Reading included playback of significant portions of A MIRACLE OF RARE DEVICE.
SFCMP 30 YEARS – Commemorative Book, Issued March 26, 2001
Page 30 re world premiere of SCRITTI DI LEONARDO
Page 32 re “Former Assistants to the Music Director”
PACIFIC REVIEW, Class Notes, Page 27, Fall 2000, Vol. 87, No.3
Update re: Opera Conducting, Publishing
THE NEW YORKER, Andrew Porter, July 1988
CF Attends the PepsiCo Festival
THE NEW YORKER, Andrew Porter, April 1987
Susan Jolles Performs the CF Harp Sonata at Merkin Hall
SUPPLEMENT TO MUSIC SINCE 1900, Nicolas Slonimsky
Five Entries Re: SCRITTI DI LEONARDO and Premiere Performances given by CF of Babbitt, Maxwell Davies, Kalmar and Shere
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA CHORAL DIRECTORY
Two Listings in each of the 1985, 1987 and 1989 Editions
EDITIO MUSICA BUDAPEST NEWSLETTER
January 1985, Re: Premiere of Sary INCANTO
November 1985, Re: “First American All-Kurtag Program”
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY MAGAZINE
Michael Steinberg Quotes CF on Andrew Imbrie
San Francisco, January 1985
THE SACRAMENTO UNION
Nancy Steidtman on the Bay Area Music Scene
September 1984
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Joseph Kerman Re: CF article on Dragon Lore in Wagner’s Ring
December 1983
THE BOOSEY AND HAWKES NEWSLETTER
Re: CF Conducts Donatoni at UC Berkeley Italian Festival, Spring 1979
Various Newspaper and Magazine reviews and performances
With Ariel, A Contemporary Vocal Ensemble;
With the Composer’s Chamber Players;
Of the Berkeley Opera Chorus, CF, Chorus Director;
At Old First Concerts;
With the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players;
At the June in Buffalo Festival’
At Mills College, et cetera.
Individual Lectures and Talks by CF
STOP PAYING THE PIED PIPER!
"Creating an Integrated Music Performance Program:
Expanding Student Knowledge and Skills Across the Classical-Vernacular Divide"
A Videoconferenced Address to the College of Arts, University of New England, Australia, Nov. 30, 2009
“On the Flying Dutchman”
1 1/2 –Hour talk for the Wagner Society of Northern Calif.
The Dollar Board Room of the San Francisco Ballet,
June 7, 2003
“Why Is Wagner’s Music So Exhilaratingly Exciting?”
Two-Hour Talk on Wagner’s Tonal, Textural, and Orchestrational Devices
For the Wagner Society of Northern California
The Board Room of the San Francisco Ballet, April 28, 2001
“New Approaches to Solfege”
Lecture on Fixed Chromatic Solfege
With Performances of Duets from VOCAL MUSICIANSHIP
At the College Music Society
Pacific Central Chapter Annual Conference
Stanislaus State University, March 6, 1996
“On Art and Entertainment”
To the Women’s Relief Society, Orinda, March 1989
“An Introduction to Dissonant Counterpoint”
To the UCLA Music Department, May 6, 1985
“The State of the Arts”
To the Economic Round Table, January 8, 1985
“Pre-Performance Preparation for Tension in Performance”
Paper read to the International Society
for the Study of Tension in Performance
Westminster Choir College, Princeton, July 31, 1985
“Structure and Idiom in Gesualdo’s Sixth Book of Madrigals”
To the Conservatory of Music, The University of the Pacific, March 18, 1985
“Regarding Pierre Boulez”
Paper read to the UC Berkeley Music
Department “Camerata,” February 1981
Published Essays, Reviews, and Letters by CF
“Inmates’ Story Intriguing”
Letter in The Catholic Herald, Archdiocese of Sacramento, 10/26/1998
“Fantasy Hammered Into Unity: The Art of Ariel Parkinson”
WOMEN’S STUDIES, Volume 22, Number 1, 1992
“One Hour With Opera America”
On the Opera America Annual Convention
Commissioned for OPERA GUIDE December 1988 Issue
“Eugene Onegin: A Pushkin Collage”
The San Francisco Opera, Fall 1986 Program Guide
“An Introduction to the Pops” and “Biographies of Pops Performers”
San Francisco Symphony, Summer 1986 Program Guide
“The Music of Gyorgy Kurtag”
Program Note for “The First American All-Kurtag Program” (which see)
Note” excerpts of this essay appeared without acknowledgement in a New Yorker article by Andrew Porter
“The Canti Lunatici of Bernard Rands”
For the San Francisco Symphony Magazine, 1985
“Prokofieff’s First Violin Concerto”
The San Francisco Symphony Magazine, January 1984
Records Reviews
HIGH/PERFORMANCE REVIEW 1984
Program Notes for the Concerts of the Inaugural Season
The Chamber Symphony of San Francisco, 1983-84
Program Notes
Chamber Music West 1984 Season
“Dragons, Sirens, and Heroes: Uncoiling the Combat Myth in Wagner’s Ring”
Essay for the Pacific Northwest Wagner Festival 1983 Program Guide
Works of Peterson, Rochberg, Felciano, and Boone
Liner Notes to Granadilla Records GS-1063
The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
EDWARD HOPPER: MUSIC OF HIS TIME
Program Guide to a series of SFCMP Concerts, February 1982
Respighi and Bennett Violin Sonata
Liner Notes to Orion Records ORS 82439
The Malan-Sutherland Duo
“Understanding Contemporary Music”
THE BERKELEY GRADUATE February 1982
EXPRESSIONISM IN MUSIC
A 29-page program book for a concert series
given by the SFCMP in conjunction with the Goethe Institute and the SFMOMA, January 1982
“Andrew Imbrie: Piano Concerto Number Two”
San Francisco Symphony Magazine, November 1981
“Music as Place”
THE BERKELEY GRADUATE January 1981
Also: numerous short program notes and reviews, particularly for concerts given by Ariel, a Contemporary Vocal Ensemble; The Composers Chamber Players; the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players; and THE BERKELEY GRADUATE
UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH And Research in Preparation
In Music
On Bach’s Treatment of the Minor Sixth
Some Notes On Dissonant Counterpoint
Including Thoughts On Non-Tonal Species Counterpoint
A Theory of Adjunct Pitches
A Theory of Intervals as Non-Invertible
On Karl Popper’s Notion of What Musical Expressionism Is
What a “Vocal Ensemble” Is and How to Rehearse It
On Planning How Fast the Words Go By
Schoenberg’s Beethoven Quotations: Structure and Detail
Humor in the Scherzo of Beethoven’s Opus 18 #4 String Quartet
Sonata Principle in the Music of Wagner (see also lecture
of 4/28/2001)
John Coltrane, Giant Steps, and Jazz
Research on Topics Outside Music
SamSKrTa, A New Transliteration System for Sanskrit
Unlike any previous transliteration methods, with this system the Western typewriter may be used to notate the Sanskrit syllabary
Available in a One-Page Summary
The BhaGaWad GiiTaa
Complete Transliteration of the Hindu Scripture “Bagawad Gita” from the SaMSKrTa or “Sanskrit”
Gematria of Poetic Rhythm in the Latin text of Swedenborg’s
last treatise
The Pornography of Boredom
(Against Minimalism from Satie to Adams)
The Real Difficulty of the Ontological Proof of the Existence of God
TRANSLATION IN PREPARATION
THE RING OF THE DARKLING, a prose-poetic translation of DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN by Wagner. Literary, not intended for singing. This incorporates additional mythological and linguistic research into a translation of Wagner’s libretti. This translation preserves Wagner’s Stabreim and meter while rendering his large and idiosyncratic vocabulary and grammar into idiomatic English. The character and place names are also translated into a completely Englished literary fabric. Work is complete up through SIEGFRIED Act One. The projected titles are:
THE PURE GOLD
THE GODDESS OF WAR
VALIANT
THE ENSHADOWING OF THE IMMORTALS
HONORS AND AWARDS
Grant from the Wagner Society of Northern California to assist CF
while preparing and performing SIEGFRIED with the SF Lyric Opera, August 2000.
Recognition for Participation in the Schola Gregoriana
Tecamachalco Technological University
Puebla, Mexico, July 28, 1998
Recognition for Participation in the Schola Gregoriana
City of San Martin Texmelucan
Pueble, Mexico, July 27, 1998
Recognition for Participation in La Difusion Cultural
City of Atlixco, Pueble, Mexico
Recognition for Artistic-Cultural Activies
Atlixco House of Culture, Puebla, Mexico July 21, 1996
First Prize, Arts Project Composition Competition of
the Intercampus Cultural Exchange of the University of California (Systemwide; all campuses) 1979
This award, for the CONCERTO FOR HARSICHORD AND
SEVEN INSTRUMENTS, is the only “First” yet awarded by the entire University of California system
Two Cash Awards, totaling $15,000, from the Rex Foundation, 1989-1991
Aaron and Abby Schroeder and Margaret Lee Crofts Composer Fellow
The Tanglewood Music Festival, The Boston Symphony, 1988
Numerous Personal Grants to Assist Ariel Events
Meet the Composer Foundation
Three Travel Grants, 1985 and 1986
Composer Assistance Grant from the American Music Center
To assist performance of SCRITTI DI LEONARDO, 1983
Associate in Music, the Music Department, UC Berkeley
1977-1978 and 1979-1981
The Sandy Price Memorial Fellowship
of the University of the Pacific, 1972-1976 For Undergraduate Studies
Second Place, Mills Junior High School Speech Contest, 1968
Second Place, Mills Junior High School Speech Contest, 1967
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The American Music Center
The Wagner Society of Northern California
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia: former Beta Pi Chapter President
OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
California Alumni Association
Academy of American Poets
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Reading and Spoken
German
Varying Degrees of Ability With:
French; Italian
Biblical Hebrew; Classical Greek; Latin
Russian, Including Old Slavonic Script
Sanskrit (SaMSKrTa)
HOBBIES
Reading Aloud, English and Foreign Language Poetry,
Drama and Literature
Cryptography
RECOMMENDATIONS AVAILABLE FROM
Elliott Carter
(212) 929-1618
31 West 12th Street, New York, New York 10011
Olly Wilson, Professor of Music, Former Provost of the U.C.
(510) 527-3604
500 The Alameda, Berkeley, California 94707
George Buckbee, Professor of Music,
Former Conservatory Dean, Ret.
Gbuckbee@compuserve.com
Krouvintie 2.B.14, Siuntio 02580, Finland
The Right Reverend James L. Jelinek, Bishop of Minnesota
(612) 871-5311; Fax (612) 871-0552
Suite 201, 1730 Clifton Place, Minneapolis, Minn. 55403-3242
ALSO AVAILABLE
Letters of recommendation from performers and students
Copies of numerous outdated recommendations from:
Andrew Imbrie; Ward Swingle, Jean-Louis LeRoux, Anthony Milner FRCM,
And Michael Century
Short Biography
Chronological List of Compositions by Title Only
SCORES AND RECORDINGS IN RESEARCH COLLECTIONS
The New York Public Library
The American Music Collection
Contact: George Boziwick, Curator
(212) 870-1647
GBoziwick@NYPL.Org
Bibliotheque Bozidar Kantuser
Centre International d’Information de Musique Contemporaine
Conservatoire Superior de Paris
Mediatheque Hector Berlioz
Telephone 01 44 70 64 21 Fax: 01 43 87 82 01
Didier Duclos, President; Jacques Taddei, Director
www.conservatoiresup-paris.com
WEB LINKS
I. Website:
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II. YouTube
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