{"id":8137,"date":"2023-07-16T10:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomswafford.com\/welcome\/?page_id=8137"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:46:19","slug":"cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomswafford.com\/welcome\/cv\/","title":{"rendered":"CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Tom Swafford, Ph.D.<\/b><\/p>

composer, violinist, educator<\/p>

(206) 719-5385<\/p>

tswaf@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>

www.tomswafford.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>

EDUCATION<\/b><\/p>

2001-2002\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Post-doctoral studies in composition<\/p>

Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Netherlands<\/p>

Principle teacher: Louis Andriessen<\/p>

1995-2001\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0M.A., Ph.D. music composition<\/p>

University of California, Berkeley<\/p>

Principle teacher: Olly Wilson<\/p>

Dissertation: Night Terrors<\/i> (for orchestra)<\/p>

1991-1995\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0B.A. double major in music and clinical psychology<\/p>

Tufts University, Medford, MA<\/p>

Principle teacher (composition): John McDonald<\/p>

TEACHING EXPERIENCE<\/b><\/p>

2023\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rhode Island College<\/b><\/p>

<\/b>Music Theory IV<\/p>

Non-tonal and post-tonal harmonies and 20th century compositional practices.<\/p>

Text: Clendinning and Marvin, The Musician\u2019s Guide to Theory and Analysis, 4th Edition<\/i> (Norton, 2021)<\/p>

Graduate Seminar in Music History and Literature<\/p>

The Use of Folk and Jazz in Western Classical Music<\/p>

Topics include: Native American, Eastern European, Romani music; Bart\u00f3k, Copland, Ellington<\/p>

Authors include: Richard Taruskin, Beth Levy, Olly Wilson, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Somfai<\/p>

2022-2023\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Community Music Works, Providence, RI<\/b><\/p>

<\/b>Improvisation<\/p>

Group class, ages 9-15<\/p>

2022-2023\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Providence School of Music<\/b><\/p>

<\/b>Private lessons in violin and piano<\/p>

Ages 6 to adult<\/p>

2013-2020\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn, NY<\/b><\/p>

<\/b>private instruction in violin, theory, composition<\/p>

chamber music coaching<\/p>

ages 5 to adult<\/p>

online lessons March-June, 2020<\/p>

2012\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0PS 230, Brooklyn, NY<\/b><\/p>

beginner violin class, grade 3 after school program<\/p>

2011-2016.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0In Performance Music Workshop, Brooklyn, NY<\/b><\/p>

<\/b>private instruction in violin and piano for ages 5 to adult<\/p>

2010\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Northeastern University, Boston, MA<\/b><\/p>

<\/b>Music in the U.S.A.<\/p>

U.S. Sino Pathways Summer Bridge Program<\/i><\/p>

Summer program for students from China entering college in the U.S.<\/p>

Text: Judith Tick, ed., Music in the USA<\/p>

2008-2016\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 PS 89, New York, NY<\/b><\/p>

Beginning and intermediate middle school string orchestra (substitute teacher)<\/p>

2006-2007\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Buck\u2019s Rock Creative Arts Camp, New Milford, CT<\/b><\/p>

Supervised music staff; conducted orchestra, pit band, and jazz band; violin, composition, and piano instructor; organized concerts, wrote program notes, and organized daily schedule for music department. Students ages 11 through 17<\/p>

2006\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Art Institute of Seatte, Seattle, WA<\/b><\/p>

Instruction in beginning and intermediate music theory, classical, jazz and popular music analysis, and music appreciation for college students in the Audio Production program<\/p>

2006\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Community School, White Center, WA<\/b><\/p>

<\/b>violin class instructor, ages 4-7<\/p>

2005-2007\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Academy of Music Northwest, Bellevue, WA<\/b><\/p>

Coached chamber ensembles, class instructor in composition and theory for advanced middle and high school level music students<\/p>

2005\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Washington Middle School, Seattle, WA<\/b><\/p>

Teaching Assistant; led orchestra string section rehearsals<\/p>

1996-2001\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Student Instructor, <\/b><\/p>

Music Appreciation
(text: Joseph Kerman,Listen<\/i>)<\/p>

Musicianship
(text: Robert Ottman, Basic Ear Training Skills<\/i>)<\/p>

Introduction to Theory (texts: Peter Spencer, Practice of Harmony<\/i>; William Duckworth, A Creative Approach to Music Fundamentals<\/i>)<\/p>

Orchestra
librarian and conductor\u2019s assistant<\/p>

1993-present\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Private Violin and Piano Instructor<\/b><\/p>

Students ages 5 through adult<\/p>

SELECTED RECENT AND UPCOMING <\/b>PERFORMANCES AND PRESENTATIONS<\/b><\/p>

October 14, 2023\u00a0Alphabet City Cycle<\/i> (violin)<\/span><\/p>

Sheltered Garden <\/i>(composer)<\/p>

with Rachel Hannauer, soprano; Nathaniel Baker, piano<\/p>

University of Rhode Island, University Artist Series<\/p>

May 4, 2023 Ben Copperhead and the Stringed Serpents, album release (violin)<\/p>

NUBLU, New York, NY<\/p>

February 26, 2023\u00a0Never Ending Flicker<\/i><\/p>

with Zan Berry, cello, and Matt Crane, percussion<\/p>

White Electric Coffee, Providence, RI<\/p>

January 15, 2023 I<\/p>

mprovised Music Performance<\/p>

with Stephen Haynes, cornet; Nate McBride, bass; Matt Crane, drums<\/p>

Speed Shop, Providence, RI<\/p>

December 10, 2022 Rocket Appliance <\/i><\/p>

with Eric Barber, saxophone and Matt Crane, drums<\/p>

Warren House of Pizza, Warren, RI<\/p>

October 20, 2022\u00a0\u00a0Music and Butoh performance<\/span><\/p>

with Vanessa Skantze, Butoh artist; Jesse Canterbury, clarinet; Jim Knodle, trumpet; Greg Campbell and Eveline M\u00fcller, percussion<\/p>

Wayward Music Series, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA<\/p>

June 25, 2022 Jason Kao Hwang\u2019s Myths of Origin <\/i>(violin)<\/p>

Vision Festival, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>

April 3, 2022 Composition concert<\/p>

with Rachel Hanauer, voice and Yoon Chung, piano<\/p>

Providence College, Providence, RI<\/p>

September 24, 2021 Solo violin performance<\/p>

IBeam, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>

June 24, 2021 UCI – Un Dia Cambio La Historia<\/p>

video performance for installation by artist Damian Toro<\/p>

Toro Art Studio, Quito, Ecuador<\/p>

September 28, 2020 Virtual Lecture on my recent composition and performance activity<\/p>

Composition Seminar<\/p>

Tufts University, Medford, MA<\/p>

August 1, 2020 <\/b>Me, Myself and Eye<\/i><\/p>

<\/i>online solo performance to artwork by Grady Swafford<\/p>

hosted by Connection Works Inc., Brooklyn, NY<\/p>

(violin, improvisation)<\/p>

July 13, 2020 \u201cCorona Etude: A New York City Busker Returns to Composition\u201d<\/p>

Article about my recent performance and composition activity published on violinist.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>

February 26, 2020 The Thursday Experiment<\/i><\/p>

<\/i>solo violin performance<\/p>

Gateway City Arts<\/p>

Holyoke, MA<\/p>

(violin, improvisation)<\/p>

December 15, 2019 Me, Myself and Eye<\/i><\/p>

<\/i>solo violin performance<\/p>

440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>

(violin, improvisation)<\/p>

February 16, 2019 Olly Wilson Memorial Symposium<\/i><\/p>

new composition for solo violin<\/p>

University of California, Berkeley<\/p>

(violin, composition)<\/p>

October 17, 2018 Daniel Carter with Strings\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><\/p>

Combination of freely improvised music with Arabic and Turkish traditional music<\/p>

Happy Lucky#1, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>

(violin)<\/p>

February 2, 2018 Blues Influence <\/i><\/p>

Music by Tom Swafford, Blind Willie Johnson,<\/p>

W. C. Handy, M. Ravel, and Ampa Youtou <\/i>(traditional West African song)<\/p>

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Faculty Concert<\/p>

(violinist, composer, presenter)<\/p>

October 19, 2017 Bad Actor<\/i>, a musical comedy<\/p>

The Tank, NYC<\/p>

(composer, lyricist, co-writer, pianist)<\/p>

April 20, 2016 String Power, Barb\u00e9s, Brooklyn<\/p>

(composer, arranger, violinist)<\/p>

September 10, 2015 String Power, album release concert<\/p>

Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn<\/p>

(composer, arranger, violinist)<\/p>

March 29, 2013 Icarus, <\/i>puppet musical based on the Greek myth<\/p>

Jim Henson Carriage House, NYC<\/p>

(composer, violinist, music director)<\/p>

May 20, 2012 Becoming Human<\/i><\/p>

funded in part by Brooklyn Arts Council, Community Arts Fund Grant<\/p>

PS 217, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>

(composer, violinist, producer)<\/p>

February 11, 2012 Your Voice\/ My Violin<\/i><\/p>

workshop for children<\/p>

Roulette, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>

(composer, violinist, leader)<\/p>

Fall, 2011 Butch Morris\u2019 Lucky Cheng Orchestra\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><\/p>

Fall residency with composer\/conductor Lawrence \u2018Butch\u2019 Morris<\/p>

Lucky Cheng\u2019s, New York, NY<\/p>

(violinist, improvisor)<\/p>

August 5, 2011 Finger Games<\/i> (for solo piano)<\/p>

The Cell, New York, NY<\/p>

(composer)<\/p>

May 8, 2011 Mostly Solos<\/i> (composition concert)<\/p>

The Stone, New York, NY<\/p>

(composer, violin)<\/p>

January 21, 2011 Suspensions of Disbelief<\/i><\/p>

Detour New Music Ensemble<\/p>

Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>

(violin, composer)<\/p>

March 10, 2010 The Real (?) Me (composition concert)<\/p>

Roulette, New York, NY<\/p>

(composer, violinist, presenter)<\/p>

HONORS, AWARDS, COMMISSIONS<\/b><\/p>

2012 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Fund Grant<\/p>

\u201cBecoming Human,\u201d composition performance at PS 217, Brooklyn<\/p>

2008 National Endowment for the Arts grant<\/p>

\u201cAnthropomorphic,\u201d musical for The Puppetry Arts Theatre<\/p>

Seattle Philharmonic Cello Choir<\/p>

\u201cTango Izquierda\u201d (commission)<\/p>

2008 Tufts University New Music Ensemble, \u201cBad Old Songs\u201d (commission)<\/p>

2006 4Culture Grant, Seattle, WA<\/p>

trio (piano, clarinet, violin) performance and recording<\/p>

2005 CityArtist Grant, Seattle, WA<\/p>

Production of a concert of original compositions<\/p>

2005 Jack Straw Foundation Artist Support Program,Seattle, WA<\/p>

A CD of original compositions: Golden Crackers <\/i>and Dubious Diversions<\/i><\/p>

2003 Music Northwest, Seattle, WA \u201cBonnie George Campbell\u201d<\/p>

Composition selected for concert performance from a nation wide call for scores<\/p>

2001 Charles Ives Scholarship,<\/p>

American Academy of Arts and Letters<\/p>

2001 Alfred Hertz Memorial Traveling Fellowship, U. C. Berkeley<\/p>

1997-98 Bella Zellerbach Cross Scholarship
1997 Roslyn Schneider Eisner Prize for Composition
1996 Helen Williams Wallace and Morton Walker Scholarship<\/p>

1996 Departmental Block Grant Fellowship
1994 Tufts University Concerto Competition (violin)<\/p>

performed original violin concerto with the Tufts Orchestra, 1995<\/p>

1994 Mabel Daniels Prize for music, Tufts University, 1994<\/p>

1990 Soloist award (piano), Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival SELECTED RECORDINGS<\/b><\/p>

2022 Rough Spaces<\/i><\/p>

Solo improvisations for violin<\/p>

Self released on BandCamp<\/p>

2021 Bound to Go Away <\/i>(violin, composer, arranger)<\/p>

Solo violin album<\/p>

Self released on BandCamp<\/p>

2021 Scythe Paths Through the Nettles <\/i>(violin)<\/p>

Duo album with contrabassist Zachary Swanson<\/p>

Self released on BandCamp<\/p>

2018 Cispontine <\/i>(violin, composer)<\/p>

Multi-track violin album. Made in response to the RPM Challenge. Musicians are challenged to write and record a complete album in the month of February.<\/p>

Self released<\/p>

2015 Tom Swafford\u2019s String Power <\/i>(violin, composer, arranger)<\/p>

11 member string ensemble<\/p>

Original music by Swafford and arrangements of music by Charles Mingus, The Velvet Underground, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, The Carter Family, and The Stranglers<\/p>

Funded by an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign<\/p>

Self released<\/p>

2013 Songs from the Inn <\/i>(violin, piano, arranger, composer)<\/p>

Inspired by my summers as the in-house musician at the Old Faithful Inn, Yellowstone National Park<\/p>

Self released<\/p>

2011 Violin for Christmas <\/i>(violin, arranger)<\/p>

Multi-track violin arrangements of Christmas carols<\/p>

Self released<\/p>

2011 Aram Bajakian\u2019s Kef (violin)
Arrangements of Armenian folk music and originals<\/p>

Aram Bajakian, guitar, composer; Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, bass<\/p>

Tzadik<\/p>

2009 \u00a0 7th Ave (violin, composer, arranger)<\/p>

Solo violin CD of folk songs, jazz and classical arrangements and original compositions created over a year of performing in the New York City subway stations.<\/p>

Self released<\/p>

2007 Stonehouse Songs<\/i> (violin)<\/p>

Jarrad Powell, composer, Jessika Kenney, vocalist<\/p>

Present Sounds Recordings<\/p>

2005 Cistern<\/i> (violin)<\/p>

Improvisations with the DoublendsVert ensemble, recorded in an empty underground reservoir with a 45-second reverberation<\/p>

Line Records<\/p>

2004 DoublendsVert,<\/i> (violin)<\/p>

Present Sounds Recordings<\/p>

2004 “Imposition” (composer)<\/p>

Intrada<\/i> (Ryan Hare, bassoon)<\/p>

Present Sounds Recordings<\/p>

2003 Violin Improvisations <\/i>(violin)<\/p>

solo improvisations recorded at Seattle University<\/p>

Self released<\/p>

1995 “Window” (violin)\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>

Parachute <\/i>(Guster)<\/p>

Reprise Records<\/p>

1995 “Passion Play” (violin\/arranger)<\/p>

Papas Fritas<\/p>

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