john dorhauer comp resume

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225 W School St Villa Park, IL 60181 Phone (314) 303-6015 [email protected] www.johndorhauer.com John Dorhauer Composing Experience Honors & Awards 2010-present Commissioned to compose works for The New Collaborative (NYC) Chicago Composers Orchestra, El Sistema-Ravinia Orchestra, Riverside- Brookfield High School Concert Band, Wredling Middle School, Elmhurst College Percussion Ensemble, bassist Matt Kline, Shout Section Big Band, and Jazz Time Big Band Three-time Recipient, ASCAP-Plus Award First Place, ICE/CSIC “The Listening Room” Workshop Contest First Place, Fifth House Ensemble Young Composer Contest Two-time Winner, CCPA Wind Ensemble Composition Contest First Place, Orion Ensemble Composition Contest Original composition recorded by Timothy Munro of eighth blackbird Heisenberg Uncertainty Players 2011-present Director, Composer, and Gig Coordinator for a jazz big band devoted to performing original compositions/arrangements Coordinated, produced, and composed music for a CD of all original works fresh inc. festival June 2013 Selected to participate in two-week summer composition workshop by Fifth House Ensemble and composers Stacy Garrop & Dan Visconti Notable Performances of Compositions Heisenberg Uncertainty Players July 2013-present Phyllis’ Musical Inn, Chicago, IL: various compositions for jazz big band Kelley Dorhauer, alto sax; Jennifer Ruggieri, harp October 2015 Buik Recital Hall, Elmhurst, IL: “Burn off the clouds” Elmhurst College Percussion Ensemble w/ April 2015 Glenn Kotche Hammerschmidt Chapel, Elmhurst, IL: “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” (arr) Matt Kline, bass; Michael Matsuno, flute; November 2014 Kyle Adam Blair, piano UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center, San Diego, CA; “Inarritu” International Contemporary Ensemble May 2014 Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC; “Groove Haiku” The New Collaborative May 2014 New York University Performance Space, New York, NY: “The Mermaid” Kelley Dorhauer, alto sax; Marta Honer, viola April 2014 DePaul University Recital Hall, Chicago, IL: “Isurus” Latitude 49 March 2014 Constellation, Chicago, IL: “Puzzle Lunch Tulips Cheezeborger” Education Master of Music, Composition April 2011 Chicago College of Performing Arts, Chicago, IL GPA: 4.00 Bachelor of Music, Music Education/Music Theory-Composition June 2008 Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL summa cum laude GPA: 3.97

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Page 1: John Dorhauer comp resume

225 W School St Villa Park, IL 60181

Phone (314) 303-6015 [email protected]

www.johndorhauer.com

John Dorhauer

Composing Experience

Honors & Awards 2010-present • Commissioned to compose works for The New Collaborative (NYC)

Chicago Composers Orchestra, El Sistema-Ravinia Orchestra, Riverside-Brookfield High School Concert Band, Wredling Middle School, Elmhurst College Percussion Ensemble, bassist Matt Kline, Shout Section Big Band, and Jazz Time Big Band

• Three-time Recipient, ASCAP-Plus Award • First Place, ICE/CSIC “The Listening Room” Workshop Contest • First Place, Fifth House Ensemble Young Composer Contest • Two-time Winner, CCPA Wind Ensemble Composition Contest • First Place, Orion Ensemble Composition Contest • Original composition recorded by Timothy Munro of eighth blackbird Heisenberg Uncertainty Players 2011-present • Director, Composer, and Gig Coordinator for a jazz big band devoted to

performing original compositions/arrangements • Coordinated, produced, and composed music for a CD of all original works fresh inc. festival June 2013 • Selected to participate in two-week summer composition workshop by Fifth

House Ensemble and composers Stacy Garrop & Dan Visconti

Notable Performances of Compositions

Heisenberg Uncertainty Players July 2013-present Phyllis’ Musical Inn, Chicago, IL: various compositions for jazz big band Kelley Dorhauer, alto sax; Jennifer Ruggieri, harp October 2015 Buik Recital Hall, Elmhurst, IL: “Burn off the clouds”

Elmhurst College Percussion Ensemble w/ April 2015 Glenn Kotche Hammerschmidt Chapel, Elmhurst, IL: “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” (arr)

Matt Kline, bass; Michael Matsuno, flute; November 2014 Kyle Adam Blair, piano UCSD Conrad Prebys Music Center, San Diego, CA; “Inarritu”

International Contemporary Ensemble May 2014 Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC; “Groove Haiku”

The New Collaborative May 2014 New York University Performance Space, New York, NY: “The Mermaid”

Kelley Dorhauer, alto sax; Marta Honer, viola April 2014 DePaul University Recital Hall, Chicago, IL: “Isurus”

Latitude 49 March 2014 Constellation, Chicago, IL: “Puzzle Lunch Tulips Cheezeborger”

Education Master of Music, Composition April 2011 Chicago College of Performing Arts, Chicago, IL GPA: 4.00 Bachelor of Music, Music Education/Music Theory-Composition June 2008 Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL summa cum laude GPA: 3.97