E-Mail: Ross.Feller@oberlin.edu Office: Robertson 115 Office Phone: 440-775-5286 Address: 77 W. College St. Oberlin, OH 44074 Visit also: New Conservatory Faculty Appointments Back to: Division of Composition		Ross Feller Assistant Professor of Composition Education: B.M. 1986 American Conservatory of Music, Chicago M.M. 1989, D.M.A. 1994 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Awards and Honors (partial listing): Research Grant, Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel, Switzerland) International Gaudeamus Foundation Composers' Competition (finalist) ASCAP Raymond Hubbell Composition Award (New York City) ASCAP Young Composers' Competition (finalist) American Academy of Arts & Letters Award (nomination) Theodore Presser Dissertation Award (nomination) Phi Kappa Phi Professional Affiliations: Society of Composers, Inc. Southeastern Composers' League College Music Society Atlantic Center for the Arts (associate fellow) Double Edge Dance and Music (co-founded with Kora Radella) Teaching Background: Visiting Lecturer in Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1993-1994) Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition, Minnesota State University, Moorhead (1998-2000) Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition, Georgia College & State University (2000-2004) Works (partial listing): Rip, Rag, and Panic: Seven Contrafacts for Septet (jazz combo) Cry Fowl (multimedia, choreography: Kora Radella) Przemsyl (baritone saxoophone & tape) Glossolalia (solo cello) Propeller (violin and piano) Endgame (woodwind quintet and percussion) Untrimmed (oboe, clarinet, violin, percusion, and dancer, choreography: Kora Radella) Trellis (SATB saxophone quartet) Triple Threat (mixed chamber ensemble with 12 performers) Performances (partial listing): Park West (Chicago) Chicago Public Library Cultural Center De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam) Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Urbana) Plateau (Brussels) Theatre Roxy (Basel) Renee Weiler Concert Hall (New York City) Music Paradise Marathan (Essen) Publications (partial listing): Book Chapters: "E-Sketches: Brian Ferneyhough's Use of Computer-Assisted Compositional Tools," in A Handbook to Twentieth-Century Musical Sketches, Patricia Hall & Friedemann Sallis, eds., Cambridge University Press, U.K. "Resistant Strains of Postmodernism: The Music of Helmut Lachenmann and Brian Ferneyhough," in Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, Judy Lochhead and Joseph Auner, eds. Routledge, New York City Articles: 2004 "On Busking, or the body and Soul of Street Performance," The Open Space, Vol. 5, Spring 2004, Red Hook, New York 2001 "Slippage and Strata in Brian Ferneyhough's Terrain," ex tempore, Vol. IX/2 Conference Papers: 2003 "Involuntary Grimace: A Semiotic Morphology of Facial Gesticulation in Jazz Improvisation," Sixth Annual Conference of the Dutch Society for Music Theory (Utrecht, The Netherlands) 2002 "Tools of Resistance: The Role of Parody in Frank Zappa's 'Serious' Music," Eleventh Annual Meeting of Music Theory Southeast, Florida State University (Tallahassee)