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EDUCATION
D.M.A. Yale School of Music, 1989
M.M.A. Yale School of Music, 1983
M.M. Yale School of Music, 1982
B.A. (cum laude) Yale University, 1981
FACULTY POSITIONS
1998-Present. Associate Professor of Music, Tufts University
2000-2003. Chair, Music Department, Tufts University
1992-1998. Assistant Professor of Music, Tufts University
1990-92. Lecturer in Music, Tufts University
1990-91 Artist in Residence, M.I.T.
1989-91. Instructor in Composition, Longy School of Music
1987-89. Teaching Associate, Boston University
1986-88. Co-Chair, Piano Department, Longy School of Music
GRANTS/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES (selected)
2004 Faculty Research Grant-In-Aid Award, Tufts University (for "Parallel Play")
2003-2004 Duke University Composer/Performer Residency
2003 Faculty Research Grant-in-Aid Award, Tufts University (for "Inventious Network")
2001-2002 American Composers Forum Community Partners Grant (Boston Chapter)
1999-2000 Composer-in-Residence, Performing Arts Youth Symphony Orchestra of Massachusetts
1999 American Composers Forum Project Grant (Boston Chapter)
1998 Finalist, Auros Group for New Music Competition
1998 Faculty Research Grant-In-Aid Award, Tufts University, for promotion of "The Piccolo Project"
1997 Performance Award, Culver Chamber Music Series (California)
1997 First Prize, Leo M. Traynor Competition for Music for Viols, Viola da Gamba Society of America
1996 Mellon Research Fellowship, Tufts University
PERFORMANCE
1990-Present Director of NME (New Music Ensemble at Tufts)
1989-91 Pianist, Boston Musica Viva
1988-2003. Composer/Performer/Co-Director, Extension Works
Composer/Performer Consortium, Boston
1983-Present Freelance Pianist, Boston. Performances with Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Collage, Alea III, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, New World Quartet; solo recitals and collaborations
1981-Present Collaborator with Soprano Karol Bennett (as pianist/composer)
"When Karol Bennett and John McDonald met, it was a red-letter day for composers." -John Harbison
COMMISSIONS (Selected, past three years only)
2005 Pianist Yoko Hagino: "Hagino Potpourri" (piano solo)
2004 Worldwide Concurrent Premieres Commission: "Transcriptions" for alto saxophone and string quartet
2004 Master Singers of Greater Boston: "Stafford Diptych" (chorus and violin solo)
2004 Triple Helix Piano Trio: "Calpentyn Alternatives"
2004 Robert Black, bassist: "Second Solo Contrabass Album," part of "The Hartford Commissions" for New York Merkin Hall Series
2004 Brave New Works/Firebird Ensemble: "Parallel Play" (two ensembles)
2004 Goddard Chapel/Organist Libor Dudas: "Goddard Organ Booklet"
2003 Fleet Boston Celebrity Series: "Meditation Before A Sonata: Dew Cloth, Dream Drapery" (piano solo); for pianist Andrew Rangell
2002 Brave New Works (Ann Arbor): "Inventious Network" (large ensemble)
2002 American Composers Forum: "The Veldt Of Night," for clarinet and marimba
2002 Educational Bridge Project and St. Petersburg Spring Festival: "Piano Quintet"
PUBLICATIONS
Music
-Encore Music Publishers
Little Duet for Two Flutes; Oracular Miniature for Solo Cello; Menuetto Fantastico for String Orchestra; Lyrical Study for String Quartet; Four Etudes for Solo Flute; Spirewise for Solo Piccolo; Self-Referential Solo No. 4 for Solo Piccolo; Sonatina for Piccolo and Piano; Album for Solo Piccolo; others
-League ISCM
Boston Piano Book: Three-Page Suite
-Viola da Gamba Society of America Edition: Ricercata, for Three Bass Viols
Recordings
As Pianist:
-Jonathan Harvey: From Silence (with Karol Bennett, soprano). Bridge Records (1990).
-Music of Olly Wilson, Peter Lieberson with Boston Musica Viva. Neuma Records (1991).
-With Videmus: Donal Fox "Dialectics" (with Vivian Taylor-New World Records); George Walker "Five Fancies" (with Vivian Taylor and Eric Thomas-Albany Records, 1993).
-John Harbison: "Simple Daylight" (with Karol Bennett, soprano). Archetype Recordings (1994).
-Music by Armand Qualliotine. Nepenthe Recordings (1995).
-Songs by Gardner Read, with D'Anna Forunato, Mezzo-Soprano. Albany Records (1999).
-Piano Music by Julia Werntz. Capstone Records (2003).
-Piano Music By Gardner Read, with John McDonald, soloist; Lydian String Quartet. (In progress)
-"Das Marienleben" by Paul Hindemith (with Karol Bennett). (In progress)
-Gunther Schuller: "Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano;" with Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone; Boston Records (In progress)
-Robert Carl: Violin Sonata No. 2; with violinist Katie Lansdale; New World Records (scheduled 2006 release); also Surge for bass and piano (with Robert Black, contrabass) and three solo piano works (In progress)
-Arthur Levering: Tesserae, for viola and piano (with Scott Woolweaver) (In progress)
As Composer:
-McDonald: Duetto for Piano (1990). Jeffrey Jacob, piano. New Ariel Recordings (1997).
-McDonald: Khayyam Quatrains (with Liza Lehmann's "In a Persian Garden") (GM Label; In progress))
-McDonald: Ricercata; VdGSA Label (1999)
-McDonald: Works for Solo Cello; Thomas Rutishauser, cello; CRS label (2000)
-McDonald: Sonatina for Soprano Saxophone and Piano, "Big Crunch;" Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone; John McDonald, piano; Boston Records (2001).
-McDonald: Barrier Music (2000); Central Air (1999). Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone; Lauren Radnofsky, cello; John McDonald, piano; Boston Records (In progress)
-McDonald: Piano Album 2005; John McDonald, piano. (In progress)
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