Experience

Education

"B & Me" with Bennie Wallace

University of Tennessee, Knoxville
B.M. in Composition, 1969

summa cum laude

Phi Kappa Phi
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
M.A. in Music Composition, 1971
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ph.D. in Music Composition, 1979
Teachers of Composition
David Van Vactor

Leon Kirchner

Lukas Foss

Earl Kim

Honors and Fellowships

Michael Arenson Jazz Composition Award
B and Me (2010)
University of Tennessee
Honor Scholarship (1966–1969)

David Van Vactor Composition Award (1967–1968)

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Scholarship (1968–1969)

memberships in Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Kappa Lambda
Harvard University
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1969–1970)

Graduate Prize in Composition (1969, 1970, 1972, 1973)

Paine Traveling Fellowship (1971)
CUNY, New York City
NEH Fellowship Seminar for College Teachers given by Leo Kraft in Summer of 1979
California State University, Bakersfield
Outstanding Professor (1989)

Alumni Professor of the Year (1986–1987)
California Arts Council
Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition (1996)
Contemporary Recording Society (C.R.S.)
Award and selection for recording of composition "Love Letter" (1985)
Bakersfield Centennial Certificate of Achievement
For the Bakersfield Jazz Festival and musical composition "A Wish to Behold" (1998)
Arts Council of Kern
Outstanding Contribution to the Arts (1993)

Outstanding Contributions in Music (1999)

25-Year Festival Award for Bakersfield Jazz Festival (2002)
Kern County Music Educators
Jazz Educator Award (2000)
"Contrasts" Festival Award of Lviv, Ukraine
Token for soprano and orchestra (2000)
MACRO Award Honorable Mention
"Psalm of an Orange Angel" for orchestra (2001)
LA Weekly "Pick of the Week" for a Hollywood performance
14 settings from John Berryman's "Dream Songs" entitled "Henry's Return" (2002)
Wang Family Excellence Award
System-wide Outstanding California State University Faculty in Visual and Performing Arts and Letters (2003)
Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition
"Psalm of an Orange Angel" for orchestra (2008)

Doug conducting the CSUB orchestra

Teaching Experience

California State University, Bakersfield
Professor

Director of Theory/Composition and Jazz Program, 9/82–present

Conductor of Chamber Orchestra, 9/82–6/85

Director of Vocal Jazz Ensemble, 9/88–6/93

Conductor of CSUB Community Concert Band, 9/03

Director of Jazz Ensemble, 9/82–present

Music Department Chair, 9/03–present
Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia
Assistant Professor, 9/76–6/82

Music history, theory, music appreciation, chamber and symphonic literature,
interdisciplinary humanities course for freshmen, Great books
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Teaching Fellow in composition, including electronic medium, harmony, basic piano, ear-training, 1971–1972 and 1973–1974
American Center for Artists and Students, Paris, France
Seminars in composition and analysis, piano, improvisation, 1972–1973