Stephen James
641 Salem End Road
Framingham, MA 01702
Telephone: (508) 620-1626
EDUCATION
May ’91 D.M.A. in Composition, Boston University
May ’84 M.M. in Piano and Composition, Boston University
May ’78 B.A. in Music, Amherst College
MAJOR TEACHERS
Composition Bernard Rands, Lewis Spratlan, Leon Kirchner, David Del Tredici, John Harbison, Girolamo Arrigo, Charles Fussell, Marjorie Merryman
Piano Beveridge Webster, Luis Batlle, Samuel Lipman, Fernande Kaeser, Robert Miller, Vincent Marlotti
AWARDS, HONOR SOCIETIES
May ’87 Award for Continuing Excellence, Boston University
Summer ’86 Full Scholarship, Aspen Center for Compositional Studies
April ’86 First Prize, Malloy Miller Composition Contest, Boston University
Summer ’85 Margaret Lee Crofts Fellow in Composition, Tanglewood Music Center
May ’84 Graduate Composition Prize, Boston University
– inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda (music honor society)
May ’78 B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College
– Sundquist Prize in Music
– Associate in Music (one year teaching fellowship)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Sept. ’97 – May ’17 Adjunct Professor at Worcester State College, teaching:
– individual piano lessons
– class piano (2012 – present)
– Music Fundamentals (2006 – 2013)
Jan. ’02 – May ’02 Adjunct Professor and Staff Accompanist at Anna Maria College, teaching:
– Class Piano I-IV
– individual piano lessons
Sept.-Dec. ’98 Visiting Lecturer at Bridgewater State College, teaching two sections of Music Appreciation
Sept ’97 – May ’98 Teaching Associate at Boston University, teaching:
– Music Theory I/II
– individual composition lessons
Sept. ’96 – May ’97 Visiting Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, teaching:
– Music Theory I/II
– Music Theory/Composition I/II
Sept. ’74 – present Private piano instructor – up to 37 students
Sept. ’87 – June ’88 Piano Instructor at the Brookline Music School
Sept. ’84 – May ’87 Doctoral Fellow at Boston University, teaching:
– sections of Theory Practicum: ear training and musicianship for upperclassmen
and graduate students (9/86 – 5/87)
– Freshman Honors Ear Training
– keyboard harmony (9/85 – 5/87)
– tutorials in music theory for upperclassmen and graduate students
– Remedial Music Theory (9/84 – 5/85)
Sept. ’83 – May ’84 Graduate Assistant at Boston University, teaching:
– keyboard harmony
– sections of Freshman Music Theory
April ’79 – June ’82 Primary piano instructor at Deerfield Academy
Sept. ’78 – June ’82 Adjunct piano instructor at Amherst College
Sept. ’78 – June ’79 Associate in Music at Amherst College, teaching:
– undergraduate ear training
– sections of a music survey course
OTHER EXPERIENCE
March ’01 – Aug. ’03 Director of Just in Time Composers and Players
Jan. ’98 – Oct. ’03 Member composer and performer of Just in Time Composers and Players
Sept. ’97 – present Music Director of the Eliot Church of South Natick, MA
Oct. ’96 – Sept. ’97 Music Director of the Presbyterian Church in Needham, MA
Aug. ’95 – Sept. ’96 Music Director of the First Parish Church in Wayland, MA
Sept. ’87 – Nov. ’95 Organist and choir director of the First Parish Church of Framingham, MA
Nov. ’86 – Dec. ’89 Classical pianist in the main dining room of the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston
Sept. ’88 – June ’89 Adjunct accompanist/teacher at the Walnut Hill School of Performing Arts
Sept. ’84 – May ’87 Member composer and performer of Underground Composers, a concert series described by the Boston Globe as showing “finish, elegance, confident individuality …”
June ’84 – Aug. ’87 Music Director of the Eliot Church of South Natick, MA
Sept. ’83 – May ’84 Pianist for the Boston University Contemporary Collegium
May-Sept. ’81 Music director/conductor of The Dragon (produced by Present Stage, Northampton, MA)
Experience with computer use (IBM, VAX, and Macintosh) and programming (Pascal and C), and analog and digital music synthesis (MIT Experimental Music Studio 1986/87)
References available on request