E-Mail: lewis.nielson@oberlin.edu Office: Bibbins Hall 202 Office Phone: (440) 775-6297 Address: 77 W. College St. Oberlin, OH 44074 Visit Also: • Composer Has His Moment at Carnegie Hall • Associate Professor of Composition Lewis Nielson's Year of Living Dangerously • Works of Faculty Composers Showcased in May 12 Concert Back to: Composition		Lewis J. Nielson Professor of Composition Education: B.A. Magna cum laude in Music (1972); Clark University M.A. in Music Theory and Composition (1973); University of Iowa Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition (1977); University of Iowa Professional Affiliations: American Composers Alliance Broadcast Music, Inc. Society of Composers, Inc. Southeastern Composers League Honors, Awards, and Commissions (partial listing): French Government Grant (Fulbright-Hays) National Endowment for the Arts grants Meet the Composer, Inc., grants Resident Composer-Fellow, Charles Ives Center for American Music University of Georgia Senior Faculty Research grants University of Georgia Bicentennial Celebration commission Maelstrom Percussion Trio, Buffalo, New York, commission Minneapolis Guitar Quartet commission Aurora Brass Quintet commission Teaching Background: Assistant, Associate, and Professor of Music Theory, University of Georgia, 1979-2000 Lecturer, Electronic Music, Grinnell College, 1979 Visiting Artist in Music, Cornell College, 1978-79 Works (partial listing): Counterpoint I (percussion quartet) Traveler (tape) Birds to Sing (tape) A Generation of leaves (mezzo soprano voice and orchestra) Wednesday¹s Child (flute and vibraphone) De Profundis (soprano voice and string quartet) Outside of Time (violin and piano) Nights behind the Days (trombone and piano) In Dreams, Five Angels (guitar solo) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Colossus (brass quintet) Break Out (clarinets and piano) New World Rising (saxophone quarter) Recordings: Fantasies for Soprano Saxophone and Tape Black Magic (Mojo Hand) (flute and piano) Valentine Mechanique (Eating Carmen) (cello and percussionist) The Quality of Mercy (symphonic band) Surrealistic Portraiture (soprano saxophone) Crosscurrents on the Vertical River (orchestra) Vortex Procession Works Performed at or by (partial listing): Musique Expèrimentale de Bourges O.R.T.F. Radio Broadcast, Paris Smithsonian Institution WGMS Live Radio Broadcast, Washington, D.C. American New Music Consortium Festival National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. American Society of University Composers national convention Society of Composers Inc. national convention Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague College Band Directors National Association national conference, Athens, Georgia World Saxophone Congress, Valencia, Spain Thamyris, Subscription Concert, Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Great Hall of Tchaikovsky, Russia I Seminario Nacional Pesquisa em Performance Musical, Brazil