Mark Brennan Doerries
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… EDUCATION …

φ   D.M. (Conducting) Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (July 2010 - ABD)    
      Specializations: Choral Conducting, Music Theory
      Student of Carmen Tellez, William Gray, & John Poole

φ    M.M. (Choral Conducting) Temple University (2007)
      Specialization: Conducting; Founded Luminescence Project: Experiments in Visual Acoustics
      Student of Alan Harler

φ   Queens College/ The Graduate Center, CUNY; 32 hours of graduate music theory
      Specialization: Conducting, Schenkerian Analysis
      Student of James John & William Rothstein

φ   B.A.  (Music) College of William and Mary (2003)
     B.S.  (Biology) College of William and Mary, Honors (2003)
     Specializations: Music Theory, Organ, & Deep-Sea Ecology
     Student of Constance Defotis & Carol Oja

… CURRENT ARTISTIC WORK …

φ  INDIANA UNIVERSITY OPERA THEATER AND BALLET (Assistant Conductor)
    Light in the Piazza (2009); (Chorus Master) Die Zauberflöte (2009); (Chorus Master)    
    Nutcracker (2009). Prepared choruses for Mark Gibbons, Dan Riddle, & Jeffery Cook.

φ  LUMINESCENCE PROJECT: Experiments in Visual Acoustics (Artistic Director)
    Interdisciplinary performance ensemble fusing choral music, theater, lighting, dance, literature,
    and visual art. www.luminescenceproject.org.
    
φ  LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC CENTER, INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Assistant Conductor)
    Unicamente la Verdad! opera premiere; Carmina Burana 2009, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

φ ALL SOULS UNITARIAN CHURCH (Music Director) Indianapolis, IN.

… ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL
       CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE …

φ  Artistic Director - Luminescence Project: Passionate Convictions: Bach’s St. John Passion staged
     and re-imagined as a rock concert (2010), Dreaming in Darkness: Interactive light and music show (2008),
     Ensnaring Hate: Staged production of William G. Still’s oratorio And They Lynched Him On A Tree (2008),
     Luminescence: experiments in visual acoustics, interactive choral music, movement, video,
     and light production at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival (2007).
φ  Assistant Conductor of Carmina Burana with the University of Sao Paulo Chorus and Chamber Ensemble,
     Brazil; guest engagement (2009).
φ  Conductor Égloga representada en requesta de unos amores, Juan Del Encina; Recreated and fully staged (2010).
φ  Conductor, Silence and Explosion, Arts Week Festival, Bloomington, IN; William Grant Still's
     And They Lynched Him on a Tree; Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar, (2008).
φ  Intern Conductor of Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia, Elijah, Carmina Burana,
     opera choruses Turandot & La Rondine; prepared choruses for Alan Harler (2007).

… ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC
         CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE …

φ   Assistant Conductor of Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble (2010).
φ   Associate Conductor of Indiana University ProArte Early Music Singers (2008-09).
φ   Conductor of Indiana University's All Campus Chorus (2008-09).
φ  Conductor of Pro-Arte Singers & Baroque Orchestra, De Profundis:
     Staged performances of Carissimi's Jonas and JS Bach's Aus der Tiefen, rufe ich - BWV 131 (2008).   
φ  Assistant Conductor/ Production Manager of Unicamente la Verdad!; opera commissioned by the
     Indiana University Latin American Music Center; music by Gabriel Ortiz-Torrez (2008).
φ  Conductor, Temple University Recital Chorus (2005-07).
φ  Conductor, Graduate Conductor’s Chorus, Scandinavian Soundscapes (2006).

… LESSONS …

φ    Conducting Instruction with Carmen Téllez, Vance George, Dale Warland, Robert Porco,
       Alfred Calabrese, William Gray, John Poole, and Jörg Ritter; Indiana University (2007-2010).
φ    Voice Lessons with Marietta Simpson, Indiana University (2008-2010).
φ    Conducting Instruction with Alan Harler, Temple University (2005-07).
φ    Conducting Instruction with Luis Biava, Temple University (2007).
φ    Conducting Instruction with Lone Larsen, Temple Summer Study Grant - NYC; Scandinavian and Baltic literature (2006).
φ    Conducting Instruction with Harold Farberman, Bard College Conservatory (2005).
φ    Conducting Instruction with James John, Queens College CUNY (2003-05).
φ    Conducting Instruction with Constance DeFotis, College of William and Mary (2003).

… MASTER CLASSES/
WORKSHOPS …

φ    Meredith Monk & Ensemble Workshop, Music and dance composition workshop (2009).
φ    Master Class with Dale Warland, Temple University 2006; Brahms’ Op. 104; Temple University; Spring 2006.
φ   Bard Conductor’s Institute, Summer 2005, five weeks of technique lessons from Harold Farberman
      with institute orchestra; works of Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Strauss, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Dvorak, Berlioz;
       contemporary works by S. Paulus, R. Sierra, and J. Schwantner.
φ    Master Class with Hans Michael Beuerle, Spring 2005, Queens College, 2005,
φ    Organ Lessons with Jan-Piet Knijff and Thomas Marshall, Queens College and College of William and Mary, 2000-2005.  
φ    Goethe Institute Summer Immersion Program in Freiburg Germany; 100 hours of language instruction, Summer 2006.

… TEACHING EXPERIENCE …

φ     Undergraduate Conducting, Indiana University (G370); gestural technique, aural skills, & rehearsal technique (2009-2010).
φ     Masters Level Conducting - Education & Composition Majors Indiana University (G371) (2009).
φ     Undergraduate Conducting, Temple University (101, 202, 301); basic technique & aural skills through
        advanced metrical and orchestral work (2005-07).

… PAPER PRESENTATIONS …

φ    Modern Language Association Annual Conference (2009): "Music and Literature in the Deep South,
       Civil Rights and Lynching Dramas."
φ    City University of New York Graduate Music Symposium: "Representing Music--or--Music Representing" (2009);
       Accepted Panel Participant.
φ    William Grant Still Symposium: Music and the Art - Still Our Only Hope (2009); Louisiana.
       Lynching Dramas and Narrative Structure in William Grant Still's 'And They Lynched Him On A Tree'.
φ    Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities (2009). New Audiences for Classical Music; paper presentation.
φ    All Souls Unitarian Church, Guest Speaker (2009): Classical Music in Contemporary Culture.
φ    Festival 500, Sharing the Voices (2007), St. John, Canada, Multi-Sensory Choral Music.

… PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH …

φ    C.L. Van Dover and M.B. Doerries (2005) Community structure in mussel beds at Logatchev
      hydrothermal vents and a comparison of macrofaunal species richness on slow- and fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges.  Marine Ecology 
      26:110-20.
φ   M.B. Doerries (2003) Higher-Taxon Richness as a surrogate for species richness in chemosynthetic communities.
      Poster Session at Benthic Ecology Conference.
φ   M.B. Doerries and C.L. Van Dover (2003) Higher-Taxon Richness as a surrogate for species richness in
      chemosynthetic communities.  Deep-Sea Research I 50: 749-55.
φ   C.L. Van Dover, M. Doerries, et. Al. (2003) Blake Ridge methane seep, characterization of a soft-sediment,
      chemosynthetically based community.  Deep-Sea Research I 50: 281-300.

… AWARDS AND GRANTS …

φ    Indiana University Art Museum Sponsorship, Luminescence Project: Passionate Convictions (2010).
φ    Indiana University Art Museum & Dominion Power, IN Sponsorship, - Luminescence Project: Dreaming in Darkness (2009).
φ    General Activities Fund Grant ($9,000) to found the Luminescence Project: Experiments in Visual Acoustics. 
      16 member paid vocal ensemble to sing in Philadelphia Fringe Festival.   Interdisciplinary performance between
      choral music and theatrical lighting.
φ   Temple Summer Study Grant ($500) private conducting lessons and repertoire study with
      Scandinavian conductor Lone Larsen; Summer 2006.
φ   William A. Singer Memorial Award ($500), Temple University, for excellence in choral music research and conducting potential.
φ   Indiana University Teaching Assistantship, 2007-2010.
φ   Temple University Teaching Assistantship,  2005-07.
φ   Discimus us Serviamus: Princips-“First Among Equals” Award, CUNY; 2005.
φ   Aaron Copland School of Music Service Award, CUNY; 2005.
φ   Majorine S. Curtis Award for Exceptional Research and Writing in Biology,
      Community Structure in Mussel Beds at Logatchev, a Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 
      College of William and Mary

… EMPLOYMENT HISTORY …

φ    Director of Music, All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis (2008-present).
φ    Indiana University Associate Instructor (2007-present)
φ    Managing Producer of Latin American Music Center (2008-present)
φ    Intern Conductor of Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia (2006-07).
φ    Temple University Teaching Assistant, Taught conducting 123, 124, 330 (2005-07).
φ    Director of Music, Wesley United Methodist Church, Indianapolis, IN (2007-08).
φ    Director of Music, St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, New Rochelle, NY; organist and choir director (2004-2007).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
… REFERENCES …
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"Imagine a HUGE GOB of remarkable artistic talent squeezed into a zip-lock bag, and that bag then compressed even further until the only possible outcome is a
most excellent energetic explosion of creative spewage."

 -- The Ryder, December 2008



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"An Exquisitly asmospheric concert"

-- Herald Times,
December 2008