Owner at Buckthorn Studios
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Owner at Buckthorn Studios
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Since 1999 -
Owner and Executive Director of Buckthorn Studios and its 3 divisions:
(1) Buckthorn Music Press (an ASCAP World Member Publisher/MPA),
(2) Buckthorn Books
(3) Buckthorn Records
Seeking to derive recording and performance revenue streams from a catalog of over 100 original works, as well as grow the catalog through new commissions.
Artist BIO
http://www.buckthornstudios.com/bio.htm
http://www.buckthornstudios.com/Bio_article.pdf (1-page)
copyright, music royalties, music commissions, composition, Finale, music publishing, audio editing, score layout, career promotion, music history, music notation, music theory
(Publishing industry)
March 1999 — Present (10 years 9 months)
-New Creations in Music, Literature & Performance-
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 10 months)
Music Appreciation, Department of Fine Arts. 3 (9 hrs) core curriculum classes per semester.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
October 2000 — July 2007 (6 years 10 months)
Concerts and Reservations Office, College of Music
(Public Company; TXN; Semiconductors industry)
March 1988 — September 1998 (10 years 7 months)
Defense Systems Engineering Group (DSEG) becomes Raytheon/TI Systems. Salaried, exempt. Left as rank JG28, with supply support (radar manuals and provisioning) and integrated logistics contracts experience, foreign and domestic.
(Government Agency; Military industry)
September 1986 — September 1994 (8 years 1 month)
National Defense Medal, Persian Gulf War
(Public Company; GMH; Defense & Space industry)
September 1978 — July 1982 (3 years 11 months)
Technical Publications, drafting wiring schematics and exploded diagrams, unionized 32-hr/wk permanent/part-time.
Doctor of Musical Arts , Composition/Theory , 1988 — 1998
Worked all through school. Self-supporting.
Master of Music , Composition/Musicology , 1982 — 1988
Bachelor of Music , Composition/German , 1977 — 1982
Worked all through school, self-supporting.
Non-pop sound art constructions (e-music and acoustic compositions), creative writing, Biblical archaeology
Music Publishers Association of the US (MPA), American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP), Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society (PKL), College Music Society (CMS), The American Music Center (AMC), National Association of Composers-USA (NACUSA), Vox Novus, Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC), Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies Composers Bureau (SAI), Electronic Music Foundation (EMF)
Annual ASCAPlus Award for Music Composition, Concert Music Division (8 times, 2001-2009)
Lifetime inductions: (1) Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society; (2) Sigma Alpha Iota Composers Bureau; (3) National Association of Composers, USA
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