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Christopher Culp 1 CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL CULP 29 College St. Apt 2 Buffalo, NY 14201 (570) 762-1720 CMCulp@gmail.com EDUCATION University at Buffalo, State University of New York PhD in Historical Musicology and Music Theory– (expected 2013) University at Buffalo, State University of New York Master of Music in Clarinet Performance (2011) University at Buffalo, State University of New York Master of Arts in Philosophy specializing in Aesthetics (2011) Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Robert E. Cook Honors College Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (2006) Minors: Music, Psychology, English, Women’s Studies American College of Thessaloniki - Thessaloniki, Greece (Spring 2004) King’s College, Wilkes Barre, PA Young Scholars Program (2001-2002) TEACHING APPOINTMENTS University at Buffalo, State University of New York – Buffalo, NY Adjunct Instructor: Applied Music: Clarinet Lessons (Spring 2013) Music and Society: Glee and the TV Musical (Sum 2011, Sum 2012) Genres of Music: The Broadway Musical (Sum 2009) Trocaire College – Buffalo, NY Adjunct Professor: Music: Music Appreciation (Fall 2011, Fall 2012) Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Indiana, PA Teaching Assistant: Women’s Studies: Introduction to Women’s Studies (Sum 2005, Spring 2006) English: Introduction to Women’s Literature (Fall 2005) Christopher Culp 2 Associated Educational Positions Professor of Clarinet at Hartwick College Summer Music Festival Summer 2011-2012 – Oneonta, NY Math Specialist and Algebra Teacher with Americorps/EducationWorks in Edison High School – 2009-2010 Academic Year – Philadelphia, PA Music Instructor and Bunk Counselor at Appel Farm Arts and Music Camp – Summer 2007-2010 – Elmer, NJ Teaching Assistant and Bunk Counselor at Robert E. Cook Honors College Summer Honors Program – Summer 2005 - Indiana, PA RESEARCH INTERESTS Philosophy of Music Subjectivity and Expression in Music Feminist/Queer Theory Metaphysics of Musical Drama, Music Theatre, Film Music, Television Music Contemporary Music Performance (clarinet) and Pedagogy PRESENTATIONS 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“No Place Like Queer Utopia: Failed Optimism in Musical Theatre,” Northeastern Popular Culture Association, Rochester, NY, October 26-27, 2012. “The Somewhere Not Sung: The “I Want” Song as Critical Utopian Performance,” University of Western Ontario Graduate Student Symposium, London, Ontario, CA, August 24-25, 2012. “Breaking into Song: Breaking the Fourth Wall of Television” Music and the Moving Image, New York City, NY, June 1-3, 2012. “The Somewhere Not Sung: The “I Want” Song as Critical Utopian Performance,” Music: Parts and Labor – NYU Graduate Student Conference, New York City, NY, April 27-28, 2012. “The ‘I Want’ Song as Critical Utopia Practice: How to Productively Fail in a Musical” Popular Culture Association National Conference, Boston, MA, April 11-14, 2012. “’Did anyone last night… burst into song?’: When Serial Television Puts on a Musical” Society for American Music – Seminar on “Music and Television”, Charlotte, Christopher Culp 3 NC, March 14-16, 2012. “The Somewhere Not Sung: The “I Want” Song as Critical Utopian Performance” McGill Graduate Student Symposium, Montreal, CA, March 9-11, 2012. 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“’Did anyone last night… burst into song?’: Genre Conventions when Television Puts on a Musical” Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association Conference, Session in Television Studies, Philadelphia, PA, November 3-5 2011. “The ‘Bedazzled’ Subject: Messiaen’s Ideal Listener” University at Buffalo Music Graduate Student Colloquium, Buffalo, NY, April 9, 2011. “Out of the Blue: Moving Image from Static Screen” Hybridity in Music Conference, Miami, FL, March 26, 2011. “The ‘Bedazzled’ Subject: Messiaen’s Ideal Listener” University at Buffalo Music Graduate Student Symposium, Buffalo, NY, March 4-5, 2011. 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Horror, Music and the Mean Green Mother from Outer Space” Popular Culture Association 2009 National Conference, New Orleans LA, April 8-11, 2009. “America’s Opera: The Integrated Musical” American Studies Graduate Student Association Storyteller’s Conference, Buffalo, NY, April 4, 2009. “Music and Disease: A Study of HIV/AIDS and Blue” University at Buffalo Music Graduate Student Symposium, Buffalo, NY, March 27-28, 2009. 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Escaping Enchantment in Enchanted” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Reno, NV, October 7-11, 2008. “Feminism and the Pleasure of Critique” University of Missouri – St. Louis Philosophy Graduate Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 11-12, 2008. 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“‘Life’s a Song’ at Least for an Episode” Popular Culture Association 2007 National Conference, Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007. “’It's mortal and stupid.’ - Coming to Terms with Tragedy in the Buffyverse” University of North Carolina - Greensboro’s Buffy Conference: It's the End of the World...Again: Why Buffy Still Matters, Greensboro, NC, March 16, 2007. Christopher Culp 4 INVITED TALKS 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Contemporary Music Clinic for Quincy Middle School, Boston, MA, April 11, 2012. Lecture on Clarinet and Contemporary Techniques for Music Theory for Non-Majors, University at Buffalo, SUNY, March 27, 2012. Lecture on Clarinet and Contemporary Techniques for Music Theory for Non-Majors, University at Buffalo, SUNY, November 20, 2012. PUBLICATIONS 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Winning at Music and Losing at Life: The Aesthetics of Sexuality and Failure in Glee” chapter in forthcoming collection on Glee, McFarland Press. 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Scholarship included in Don Macnaughton. The Buffyverse Catalog: A Complete Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel in Print, Film, Television, Comics, Games and Other Media, 1992-2010. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011. 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“’But... you're just a girl.’ The Feminine Mystique of Season Five.” Watcher Junior 2 (2006): 30 pars. <http://www.watcherjunior.tv/02/culp.php> 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"’What does it take to strike a spark?’ Nietzsche's Apollonian/Dionysian Balance in Buffy.” Watcher Junior 1 (2005): 22 pars. <http://www.watcherjunior.tv/01/culp.php> LANGUAGES Spanish (good reading, some conversational) Modern Greek (reading, some conversational) French (reading) German (reading) Christopher Culp 5 HONORS, AWARDS, & AFFILIATIONS Participant in Fresh inc. Music Festival – June 4-17th, 2012 Member of International Clarinet Society (2011-present) Member of American Musicological Society (2010-present) Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music Travel Grant 2011 (UB) Honorary Mention in UBSO Concerto Competition 2009 (UB) Morris Arts Fellowship for 2008-2009 (UB) Honors Track Degree in Philosophy, Latin Honors: Magna cum Laude (IUP) Spring 2004 Robert E. Cook Endowment Fund for Study Abroad (IUP) Dean’s List, Provost Scholar (IUP) Member of Delta Epsilon Iota, Academic Honors Society (IUP) PERFORMANCE GROUPS Professional: Color Field Ensemble (visiting musician) Slee Sinfonietta (visiting musician) Wooden Cities University of Buffalo: CUBE Contemporary Music Ensemble Babel... An Experimental Vocal Ensemble (performer/composer) UB Symphony Orchestra (principal clarinet) Concert Band (concertmaster) Clarinet Choir Chamber Ensembles Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Wind Ensemble Symphony Band Concert Band IUP Marching Band Symphony Orchestra Clarinet Quartet Clarinet Choir RECENT AND UPCOMING PERFORMANCES 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6/17/12 - fresh inc. festival closing concert, University of Wisconsin-Parkside – Kenosha, WI 6/16/12 - fresh inc. festival at Ravinia Concert Series – Chicago, IL Christopher Culp 6 6/12/12 - Rush Hour Concert Series as part of the fresh inc. festival – Chicago, IL 6/7/12 - Milwaukee Art Museum as part of the fresh inc. festival – Milwaukee, MN 5/18-19/12 - Jonah Interrupted (vox) directed by Ella Joseph – Buffalo, NY 5/6/12 - Chamber Music Recital of UB Composers (clarinet, bass clarinet) performance of Apple Symphony (composer)- Buffalo, NY 4/26/12 - CUBE Ensemble Concert for John Cage (clarinet), Music For Buffalo, NY 4/20/12 - UB Symphony Orchestra, “A Night at the Opera” – Buffalo, NY 4/19/12 - CUBE Ensemble Concert for John Cage (vox/piano) – Cheap Imitation with Laura Neese, dancer, and Selections from John Cage Song Books with Babel vocal ensemble – Buffalo, NY 4/6/12 - Color Field Ensemble - Visiting Musician (clarinet) for permutations concert series in Harlem, New York City, NY 4/5/12 - Color Field Ensemble - Visiting Musician (clarinet) hosted by Contagious Sounds Series at Gershwin Hotel, New York City, NY 4/5/12 - Color Field Ensemble Visiting Musician (clarinet), Manhattan School of Music 3/31/12 - Assisting Musician (clarinet) in Senior Recital for Jacqueline Potts, cello – Trio Op. 11 - Beethoven - Buffalo, NY 3/28/12 - CUBE Ensemble Concert for John Cage (clarinet) – Sonata for Clarinet – Buffalo, NY 3/25/12 - Wooden Cities Concert performing composer works of Wooden Cities at Unity Church – Buffalo, NY 3/7/12 - UB Symphony Orchestra, Principal, Symphony no. 6 – Beethoven, 1812 Overture – Tchaikovsky – Buffalo, NY 3/2-6/12 - Western NY Tour as Visiting Musician (clarinet) with Color Field Ensemble, Concerts in Buffalo, Rochester, Fredonia, NY 1/27/12 - Babel Vocal Ensemble (vox) at Hallwalls – Buffalo, NY 2011 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12/9/11 - CUBE Ensemble (clarinet/bass clarinet) including Notturno by Donald Christopher Culp 7 Martino and Night Music by Erik Ericson – Slee Hall, Buffalo, NY 12/4/11 - Chamber Music Recital (clarinet), with Jacqueline Potts, cello, and Antonella DiGuilio, piano – Buffalo, NY 10/21/11 - CUBE Ensemble (vox) for Architecture Alumni Association in Buffalo’s grain elevators for the Preservation National Trust – Buffalo, NY 8/12/11 - Babel Vocal Ensemble (vox) at The Vault - Buffalo, NY 5/1/11 - Dance Charity Variety Show (solo clarinet) - Artspace– Buffalo, NY 4/29/11 - Contemporary Ensemble, the Music of Mauricio Kagel (bass clarinet) – Buffalo, NY 4/27/11 - UB Symphony Orchestra, Principal (clarinet) - Buffalo, NY 4/20/11 - UB Symphony Orchestra with UB Chorus presenting Mozart’s Requiem, Principal (bassett horn) - Buffalo, NY 4/16/11 - Babel Vocal Ensemble (vox) in Voice Studio Recital – Buffalo, NY 4/12/11 - Assisting musician for M.M. Chamber Recital for Mo Su, piano – Max Bruch’s Eight Pieces (clarinet) – Buffalo, NY 4/7/11 - Assisting musician for M.M. Conducting Recital for Brendan Fitzgerald featuring an Improvisation and excerpts from Igor Stravinsky’s Historie du Soldat (clarinet, bass clarinet) - Buffalo, NY 4/5/11 - Assisting musician for M.M. Chamber Recital for Antonella di Guilio, piano – Johannes Brahms Sonata in Eb (clarinet) – Buffalo, NY 4/5/11 - Babel Vocal Ensemble Brown Bag Concert (vox) – Buffalo, NY 3/9/11 - UB Symphony Orchestra, Principal (clarinet) - Buffalo, NY 3/3/11 - M.M. Solo Clarinet Recital featuring works by Brahms, Debussy, Druckman, Smith, and Berio – Buffalo, NY 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12/17/10 - Performance of Apple Symphony by Outer Circle Ensemble (composer) Pittsburgh, PA 12/10/10 - UB Symphony Orchestra, Principal (clarinet) - Buffalo, NY 12/9/10 - Contemporary Music Concert, the Music of Frederic Rzewski (bass clarinet) - Buffalo, NY Christopher Culp 8 12/2/10 - Chamber Music Concert, Selections from Eight Pieces by Max Bruch (clarinet) - Buffalo, NY 11/8/10 - UB Symphony Orchestra, Co-Principal (clarinet, bass clarinet) - Buffalo, NY 11/2/10 - UB Symphony Orchestra Preview Concert – En Saga Septet (clarinet), Buffalo, NY 10/6/10 - NAI-U KESHTO by Jenece Gerber (clarinet, flute) – Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center - Buffalo, NY 8/18/10 - Performance of The Mortar for Appel Farm Session II (composer/conductor) - Elmer, NJ 8/7/10 - Performance of Apple Symphony (composer/conductor) - Elmer, NJ 7/28/10 - Performance of Dizzy Spells for Appel Farm Session I (composer/conductor) - Elmer, NJ 5/20-23/10 - Center Stage Theater Company Pit Orchestra for Into the Woods, (clarinet/flute) - Philadelphia, PA 4/16-25/10 - St. Francis Community Theater Pit Orchestra for Me and My Girl, (clarinet/flute) - Philadelphia, PA 3/14/10 - Philadelphia Freedom Band Spring Concert at Settlement Music School, Concertmaster (clarinet) - Philadelphia, PA 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8/20/09 - Performance of Envy with Ethan Turner, co-composed for Appel Farm Dance Studio in memorial of Merce Cunningham – Elmer, NJ 8/17/09 - Performance of Beethoven’s Awkward Revival for Appel Farm Session II (composer/conductor) - Elmer, NJ 7/21/09 - Performance of Overture to a Carnival for Appel Farm Session I (composer/conductor) - Elmer, NJ 4/30/09 - On the Edge Recital, Sonata for Clarinet by Leonard Bernstein (clarinet) - Buffalo, NY 4/28/09 - Babel Vocal Ensemble, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (vox/composer) – Buffalo, NY 4/27/09 - UB Symphony Orchestra, Co-Principal (clarinet) – Buffalo, NY Christopher Culp 9 4/17/09 - Contemporary Ensemble Concert (clarinet/bass clarinet) – Buffalo, NY 4/17/09 - Babel Vocal Ensemble Concert at Baird Recital Hall, (vox/composer) – Buffalo, NY 4/6/09 - Slee Sinfonietta Concert with Derek Charke (clarinet) – Buffalo, NY 4/6/09 - Slee Sinfonietta / Brown Bag discussion with composer Derek Charke (clarinet) – Buffalo, NY 3/1/09 - M.M. Chamber Recital featuring Weber, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Sollberger, and Byerly (clarinet/bass clarinet) – Buffalo, NY 2/25/09 - UB Symphony Orchestra, Co-Principal (clarinet) – Buffalo, NY 2/3/09 - Brown Bag concert, Sonata for Clarinet by Francis Poulenc (clarinet) – Buffalo, NY SERVICES - Program Committee Chair for Music Graduate Student Association Symposium 2012, University at Buffalo - Music Lessons in Clarinet, Flute, Oboe, and Saxophone - Composer of Contemporary Pieces for middle-high school students to learn and practice contemporary techniques and notation - Graduate Student Representative with University of Buffalo Music Faculty 2008-09, elected by Music Graduate Students - Volunteer Peer Educator and Counselor with SBI Health Education 2008 (UB) - Secretary for Graduate Philosophy Association - University at Buffalo 2007-08 - Volunteer and Actor with V-Day Campaign to End Violence Against Women. Charity Performance of “A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, A Prayer” ed. by Eve Ensler March 28, 2008 (UB) - Pit Musical Player with neighboring high schools (IUP) - Academic Mentor in the Robert E. Cook Honors College (IUP)
