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Name: |
David Kulma |
| Title: |
Adjunct Professor of Music |
| Education:
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M.A., Music Composition, Kent State University
B.M., Instrumental Performance (Oboe), Kent State University |
| Office: |
104 Conservatory of Music |
| Phone: |
803-323-3795 |
| E-mail: |
kulmad@winthrop.edu |
| Web: |
David Kulma's Website |
| Area(s):
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Music Theory and Aural Skills
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David Kulma is a composer-performer currently living in Charlotte, NC.
David serves as an Adjunct Professor of Music at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC where he teaches freshman-level music theory and aural skills. He has taught previously at Chicago State and Kent State Universities. As a graduate teaching assistant, he coauthored Kent's new first-year music theory textbook,
How Music Works. This past summer he worked at Interlochen Arts Camp.
David's holds two degrees from Kent: a Bachelor's degree in oboe performance and a Master's degree in music composition. His principal teachers were Danna Sundet and Frank Wiley. He has also worked privately with microtonal pioneer Ben Johnston. He is helping the Kepler Quartet create a blog where he interviews Ben about his music and Just Intonation.
His compositions include a variety of chamber music. His largest work to date is his master's composition thesis, Emily, a half-hour long song cycle on poems of Emily Dickinson. David is a member of ASCAP.
A freelance oboist, David has performed with the Erie Philharmonic, Trinity Chamber Orchestra, Warren Philharmonic, Akron Baroque, and Ashland Symphony. He trained as a conductor in undergraduate, and spent one summer at the Pierre Monteux School.
With his fellow composer-performer friend,
Dorian Wallace, he has formed the avant-duo
Trystero to perform Robert Ashley's Perfect Lives, and other Awesome Music.
David's website is
http://davidkulma.com.