EDUCATION

Ph.D., Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 2007. Dissertation: The Impact of the Second Vatican Council on the Concert Mass in the United States. Chair: Dr. Alejandro Planchart (Emeritus)

Certificate of College and University Teaching, University of California, Santa Barbara, conferred September 2007. Awarded after completion of a portfolio that documents five requirements which include teaching a course as the instructor of record, an independent research project on the use of media in the classroom, and an assessment of teaching experiences. Please see: http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/academic/ccut/require/ for more information.

Certificate in Performing Arts Administration, Emerson College. Expected Summer 2009.

M.A., Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2003.

Bachelor of Arts, Music, cum laude, Scripps College, Claremont, California, May 1998. Thesis: Gail Kubik’s Cantata “A Record of our Time” as a War Protest Piece. Advisors: Dr. Michael Lamkin and Dr. William Alves

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
Twentieth-century American sacred music
Secondary interests in religious aesthetics, film music, music of Joseph Haydn

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Doctoral Research, UC Santa Barbara, 2000-2007.
An examination and discussion of the American concert mass after the Second Vatican Council. Particular focus on those masses that addressed issues of genre, or represented the more traditional Latin Mass. Specifically examines masses by Paul Creston, Lou Harrison and Leonard Bernstein. Advisors: Alejandro Planchart, William F. Prizer, and Derek Katz.

Research Assistant, UC Santa Barbara, 1998-9.
Collected and compiled archival materials on Mildred Hill, a collector of African-American folk songs and correspondent with Antonin Dvorák. Research used in Michael Beckerman’s New Worlds of Dvorák (W.W. Norton, 2003). Primary research conducted in Louisville, Kentucky in May 1999. Advisor: Dr. Michael Beckerman, Musicology (NYU)

Undergraduate Research, Scripps College, 1996-8
Produced a senior thesis which investigated the choral works of Gail Kubik with special attention to his cantata “A Record of Our Time.” Obtained copies of personal documents; majority of research based on interviews with Kubik’s longtime companion, Marilyn Goetsch.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Special Lecturer, Providence College (Providence, RI), Fall 2008 to Present
Music 226: Music of the United States. A discussion and lecture based course for non-majors and music minors, cross-registered with American Studies, with an enrollment of twenty-five students. Covered both vernacular and cultivated styles. Text: Richard Crawford’s America’s Musical Life.

Music 218: Music of the Twentieth Century (current term). A discussion and lecture based course for non-majors and music minors, focusing on the development of aesthetic and musical trends in the twentieth century. Text: Alex Ross’ The Rest is Noise.

Advising, serving as advisor for a music major’s Senior Lecture-Recital on the choral music of Arvo Pärt

Adjunct Professor, Clark University (Worcester, MA), Spring 2008
Music 102: Music of the Classical & Romantic Periods. A discussion and lecture based course for both majors and non-majors, with an enrollment of approximately twenty students.

Adjunct Faculty/Lecturer, Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA), Fall 2003, Fall 2004
Survey of Western Music History. Lectures met three times a week, with an enrollment of twenty-two students. Students were non-music majors and music minors.

History of Western Music. The course met twice a week and was the first half of a two-semester history sequence for music majors. Class was discussion-based and listening-intensive.

Associate, Music Appreciation. UC Santa Barbara, Winter 2001, Spring & Summer 2002.
Instructor of record. Lectured twice a week for broad-based survey course on the history and styles of Western art music. For Winter and Spring, course enrollment was 350-450 students and consisted of two papers, a midterm and final exam. Course advisor: Dr. William F. Prizer, Musicology.

Lead Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, UC Santa Barbara, 2001-2003.
Taught and constructed a required course (Fall 2001, 2002) for new teaching assistants in the music department focusing on pedagogical techniques, issues in assistant teaching, and campus wide academic procedures and policies. Implemented an online forum for departmental teaching assistants to interact and engage in thoughtful discussions regarding their roles as TAs. Attended three-day Lead TA Institute offered through the TA Development Program at UCSB.

Teaching Assistant, Music Appreciation. UC Santa Barbara, 1998-2001, 2002-2003.
Led three discussion sections a week, graded two papers, three exams, listening journals and assisted approximately 90 students per quarter. Dr. William Prizer, Musicology.


PUBLICATIONS, CONFERENCES & EDITING

Marchand, R.G. Paper. “Beauty Abandoned by the Church: Paul Creston’s Op. 97 Protest Mass” to be delivered at the Winter 2009 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Boston College, January 31, 2009.

Marchand, R.G. Book Review. Eagle Minds: Selected Correspondence of Istvan Anhalt & George Rochberg, 1961-2005. Edited by Alan Gillmor (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007) Forthcoming in the Bulletin for the Society for American Music.

Marchand, R.G. The Music of Tom Myron An essay designed as a reference for those wishing to research the works of composer Tom Myron. Examines his major stylistic tendencies through an examination of five representative works.

Marchand, R.G. Symphony No. 2 by Tom Myron.Program note, Portland Symphony Orchestra (Maine), 2005-6 concert season.

Editorial Assistant. January 2004 to January 2005. Worked for an Italian doctoral student (Princeton University) writing a dissertation on Heinrich Isaac and the Medici. Provided assistance with English and content.

Giacosie, R.D. December 2003. Clearing Customs in the Choral Community. in the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award-winning webzine of the American Music Center, NewMusicBox, Issue 56, vol. 5, no. 8 (http://www.newmusicbox.com/page.nmbx?id=56vw02)

Program notes, April 2003. Arts and Lectures (Santa Barbara) subscription series: Lang Lang, piano, April 3, 2003. Works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Schumann and Liszt.

Program notes, November 2002. Arts and Lectures (Santa Barbara) subscription series in conjunction with Chamber Music in Historic Sites: Perlman/Nikkanen/Bailey Piano Trio, November 3, 2002. Works by Lotti, Beethoven, Schubert and Liebermann.

Giacosie, R.D. 2001. “The History of Music in America and Canada.” Educational subscription website produced by ABC-CLIO.

Editorial Assistant, to Eunice Schroeder, then Book Review Editor for the Music Library Association’s journal Notes. Summer 2000.

Giacosie, R.D. 1997. 'The Andrews Sisters'in Music in the 20th Century, vol. 1. (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997).

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE/VOICE

Opera Tour, April and May of 2003. Assistant director and title role in concert version of Antonio Cesti's Orontea. Director, Alejandro Planchart.

Cappella Cordina/Musica Antiqua, Assistant Director and vocal soloist. 1998-2002. Early Music collegium under the direction of Alejandro Planchart.

Polyhymnia, soloist. A cappella ensemble with performances ranging from Gregorian chant to madrigals of Luca Marenzio (release of recording pending). Director: Alejandro Planchart.

Current Sounds, performed in an ongoing concert series in Santa Barbara, CA, devoted to new music. Premiered a vocal work written by composer Leslie Hogan.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE, AWARDS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Secretary, Founding Member, Haydn Society of North America, 2006-2008

Administrative Assistant (formerly Graduate Intern), Classical Music Festival, Eisenstadt, Austria. August 1998, 2000-2003, 2005, 2007.

Outstanding Graduate Student Award, UC Santa Barbara, Department of Music, Spring 2003.

Musicology Search Committee Member, UC Santa Barbara, Voting member on Search Committee for new faculty position, Winter 2002.

Music Department Representative, Graduate Student Assembly, UC Santa Barbara, 2001-2

Graduate Reference Assistant, Arts Library (Music), UC Santa Barbara. 1999-2004.

Sickinger Fellowship Recipient, UC Santa Barbara, 1998-1999.

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, 2008
Haydn Society of North America, Secretary, 2006 to present
Society for American Music, 2001 to present.
American Musicological Society, 1999 to present.
College Music Society, 2005 to present





REFERENCES

Derek Katz, Ph.D., Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. katz@music.ucsb.edu (805) 893-4354


Benjamin Korstvedt, Ph.D., Musicology, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610
bkorstvedt@clarku.edu (508) 793-7369


Shirley Mullen, Ph.D., President, Houghton College, One Willard Ave., Houghton, NY, 14744.
Shirley.Mullen@houghton.edu (585) 567-9526 x 5260

Alejandro E. Planchart, Ph.D., Professor of Music Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106. ockeghem@cox.net (805) 967-8736

William F. Prizer, Ph.D., Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. prizer@music.ucsb.edu (805) 893-4367

Stefanie Tcharos, Ph.D., Musicology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. stcharos@music.ucsb.edu (805) 893-4027