David Gaines

Current

• Composer at Verda Stelo Music (Self-employed)

Past

• Keyboardist at Surrender Friday
• Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Maryland University College
• Adjunct Instructor at Connected Education, Inc./New School University

• Assistant Director of Music at Appel Farm Arts Camp

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Education

• Peabody Conservatory of Music/Johns Hopkins University
• American University
• Northwestern University

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Music

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• ReverbNation

David Gaines’s Summary

Musician with over thirty years of experience as a classically-trained composer, arranger, performer, and music journalist.

Collaborations and performances include: Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, Afghan pop music legend Ehsan Aman, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic), PJ Veyvanovsky Symphony Orchestra (Czech Republic), Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic (Connecticut), Bulgarian Esperanto Choir, Master Singers of Virginia, and the Peabody Wind Ensemble (Baltimore, Md.); conductors Kirk Trevor, Harlan Parker, Viktor Kozanek, Salvatore Princiotti, and Vit Micka; performers Marx Cox (professor of tuba, Central Michigan University), Eileen Meyer Russell (professor of trombone, Southwestern University), Robert Kozanek (principal trombone, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra), James DeJoie (Seattle area baritone saxophonist), Darel Stark (assoc. principal 2nd violin, Honolulu Symphony Orchestra), and Double Play (flute and tuba duo).

Commercial orchestral and concert band recordings are available on the MMC Recordings and Verda Stelo Music labels; a CD/digital download album of chamber music is scheduled to be released in 2010 on the Navona Records label.

Have also conducted interviews with Ian Anderson and Martin Barre of Jethro Tull, Daryl Stuermer of Genesis, Michael Dunford of Renaissance, and pianist Liz Story resulting in feature stories published in the Washington Times and other Washington, D.C. area periodicals.

David Gaines’s Specialties:

Music for concert band, wind ensemble, and symphony orchestra; chamber music for low brass instruments & unusual instrumental combinations; electronic music.

Multi-keyboardist with experience in rock, pop, wedding, ska, and reggae bands.

David Gaines’s Experience

• Composer

  Verda Stelo Music (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Music industry)

  1983 — Present (26 years )

• Keyboardist

  Surrender Friday

  (Music industry)

  January 2009 — November 2009 (11 months)

  DC-area classic/modern rock cover band
  
  www.surrenderfriday.com

• Adjunct Associate Professor

  University of Maryland University College

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  2004 — 2006 (2 years )

  Taught traditional, in-person introductory classes in ehtnomusicology and the history of jazz. Assisted in the development of a non-traditional, online, distance education course based on the history of jazz class.

• Adjunct Instructor

  Connected Education, Inc./New School University

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

  Developed, maintained, and taught an online, distance education course in the history of electronic music technology (the first of its kind - this was prior to the invention of the Worldwide Web).

• Assistant Director of Music

  Appel Farm Arts Camp

  (Music industry)

  1993 — 1993 (less than a year)

David Gaines’s Education

• Peabody Conservatory of Music/Johns Hopkins University

  DMA , Music (composition) , 1992 — 1998

  Was also Assistant Director of Public Information at Peabody from 1995 to 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Pi Kappa Lambda music honor society (equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa)

• American University

  MA , Music (composition) , 1985 — 1987

• Northwestern University

  BMus, BA , Theory & Composition / Philosophy , 1979 — 1984

  Activities and Societies:

  Lambda Chi Alpha, freeform radio host at WNUR-FM

Additional Information

David Gaines’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• ReverbNation

David Gaines’s Interests:

Music, Classical music, Contemporary classical music, Progressive rock music, Film scoring, Podcasting, Teaching, Music journalism, Blogging

David Gaines’s Groups:

ASCAP, Muzika Esperanto-Ligo, World Esperanto Association, Esperanto-USA, American Ferret Association

•    Northwestern University Alumni
•    Friends of Esperanto
•    Esperanto

David Gaines’s Honors:

2009 Nominee, Just Plain Folks Music Awards, Contemporary Classical Music category

Pi Kappa Lambda, Peabody Conservatory of Music/Johns Hopkins University

ASCAPlus Awards annually since 2000

First Prize, 1997 College Music Society MidAtlantic Chapter Student Composers Competition (for Lyric Fanfare for trombone and piano)

First Prize, song division, 1995 World Esperanto Association Fine Arts Competition (for Povas Plori Mi Ne Plu for unaccompanied SATB choir)

Honorary Member, "Society and Esperanto" Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria

Honorary President, Muzika Esperanto-Ligo, Victoria, Australia

David Gaines’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch