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Curriculum Vitae
Thomas D. Svatos Department of Music Faculty of Arts and Sciences Eastern Mediterranean University Gazimagusa via Mersin 10 Turkey
Office Tel.: (+90) 392 630 2593 Home Tel.: (+90) 392 365-1009 Mob.: (+90) 0533 844 2296 E-mail: thomas.svatos@emu.edu.tr
Degrees:
9/95-6/01: Ph.D. (Musicology). UC, Santa Barbara. Dissertation Title: Martinů on Music and Culture: a View from his Parisian Criticism and 1940s Notes.
9/93-12/95: Master of Music (Music History and Literature, Double Bass Performance). Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL. Thesis Title: Towards the Social Themes in Janáček's Works.
1/90-12/92: Bachelor of Music (Major: Composition, Double Bass; Minor: German Language and Literature). Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL.
9/87-6/90: Associate of Arts (Music). Triton College, River Grove, IL.
Other Education:
7/99: Certificate of Proficiency in the Czech language; Ministry of Education, Czech Republic.
8/98: Summer Program in Slavic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Language Proficiencies:
Primary: Czech, German Secondary: Russian, French
Papers:
8/05: "The Two Ideologies of Miroslav Barvík and Bohuslav Martinů's legacy under Czechoslovak Communism." Fourth Biennial International Conference on Twentieth-Century Music, University of Sussex, UK.
6/04: A Programmatic Work without a Program: Bohuslav Martinů's Fantaisies Symphoniques. Inscriptions in the Sands ¡®04: an Arts and Culture Conference and Festival, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus.
10/01: "Surrealism vs. Realism: Bohuslav Martinů's Julietta as a Reactionary Work to the Historical Lines in Czech Musical Thought." Socialist Realism and Music: Anti-Modernisms and Avant-gardes, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Published in Socialist Realism and Music. Ed. Mikuláš Bek, Geoffrey Chew, and Petr Macek (Prague: Koniasch Latin Press, 2004), 228-235.
5/01: "Martinů's American Diaries: Perspectives on Publication" Editing the Works of Bohuslav Martinů, Bohuslav Martinů Institute, Prague, Czech Republic.
10/99: "On Bohuslav Martinů's Aesthetics: a View in Relation to Janáček's Aesthetics" Janáček: A Tale of Three Cities, University of London, UK.
7/99: "Towards an Edition of Martinů's Essays on Music" Institute for Musicology, Prague, Czech Republic.
Forthcoming Articles: Reasserting the Centrality of Musical Craft: Martinů and his American Diaries.
A Clash over Julietta: the Martinů/Nejedlý Political Conflict and Twentieth-Century Czech Critical Culture.
A Forgotten Zhdanovite: Miroslav Barvík and his Revisions of Czech Music History.
Translations:
The Soldier and the Dancer. A libretto translation of Martinů¡¯s opera with expression markings for the music and stage. Bohuslav Martinů Institute, 1999.
Reviews:
"Janáček's ¡®Fate¡¯ at the Prague National Theater." Dvořák Society Newsletter. October, 2002.
"Two Faces of Janáček" The Prague Post. September 22-28, 1999, Section B, pg. 4.
Work Experience:
9/02-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus.
1/04-present: Associate Editor, ex tempore.
2/02-9/02: Writer/Translator, Supraphon Records, Prague, Czech Republic.
1/02-2/02: Lectures for the Manhattan String Quartet's Workshop "Dvořák in Prague," Prague, Czech Republic.
3/98-5/98: Program Contributor, Translator, and Lecturer for the Festival of Czech Chamber Music, the Villa Bertramka, Prague, Czech Republic.
1/98-3/98: Consulting editor for Iša Popelka's Catalogue of Autographs, Manuscripts, Facsimiles and Editions of Compositions by Bohuslav Martinů at the Bohuslav Martinů Museum, Polička, Czech Republic.
1/95-6/95: Source Program, Rockford, IL. Double Bass lecture performances for grammar school students.
9/90-6/95: Rockford Symphony Orchestra, Double Bass.
5/94-8/94: Du Page County Opera Company, Double Bass.
Assistantships:
9/95-12/97; 9/99-6/00: Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, UC, Santa Barbara.
11/98-5/99: Archival Research Assistant, Museum of Antonín Dvořák, Prague, Czech Republic (for the monograph The New Worlds of Dvořák by Michael Beckerman).
3/97-6/97: Research Assistant for the Program "Mozart in Prague" (for lectures by Michael Beckerman, Lincoln Center, New York).
1/95-6/95: Teaching Assistant, School of Music, Northern Illinois University.
1/89-12/89: Music Theory Tutor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Triton College, River Grove, IL.
Courses Taught:
Eastern Mediterranean University: Survey of Western Art Music I (Mus 131), Survey of Western Art Music II (Mus 132), Music of the Baroque (Mus 233), Classic-Romantic Music (Mus 234), The Nineteenth-Century Lied (MUVO 261), Neo-Romanticism and the Twentieth Century (Mus 335), Topics in Music History I: Music in Russia and Czechia (Mus 336), Topics in Music History I: Opera Literature (Mus 336), Topics in Music History II: The Symphony (Mus 438).
UC, Santa Barbara: Music Appreciation (Mus 15).
NIU: Introduction to Concert Music (Mus 220).
Master¡¯s Thesis Supervision:
Ogur, Volkan. Visions of a Culture: Towards an Ethnography of Musical Culture in Harput, Elazig, Department of Communications and Media Studies, EMU, 2004.
Karimova, Gulnara. Color as Influence on Consumers in Advertising. Department of Communications and Media Studies, EMU, 2003.
Grants and Awards:
6/01: Erna Fischer Dissertation Prize.
5/00: Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship Award, UC, Santa Barbara.
5/98: Humanities and Social Sciences Research Assistantship Award, UC, Santa Barbara.
1/98: Fee Fellowship Award, UC, Santa Barbara.
1/98: Research Stipend, Bohuslav Martinů Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic.
5/88: Academic Merit Award for Students of Music at Triton College, Women's Club of Elmwood Park, IL.
Professional Affiliations:
American Musicological Society College Music Society Czech Musicological Society Czech and Slovak Music Society International Bohuslav Martinů Society
Compositions:
1992: Seven Episodes for Five Stringed Instruments.
1991: Four Songs on Texts by Jaroslav Seifert.
References:
Professor Michael Beckerman, Chair Department of Music 726 Broadway, 6th Floor New York University New York, NY 10003 E-mail: michael.beckerman@nyu.edu tel. (212) 988 8312 - office
Professor Jan Smaczny, Chair School of Music The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Northern Ireland E-mail: j.smaczny@qub.ac.uk tel. +44 (0) 28 9033-5201 - office
Jon Snyder Department of French and Italian 5206 Phelps Hall UC, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4140 Tel. (805) 893-7549 - office Tel. (805) 893-3111 - department office E-mail: snyder@french-ital.ucsb.edu
Jean-Michel Boulay Via Argentieri 17 I-39100 Bolzano Italy E-mail: jeanmichel_boulay1@aliceposta.it Tel. (+39) 0471 97 86 31
Professor Lee Rothfarb, Chair Department of Music UC, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106 E-mail: rothfarb@music.ucsb.edu Tel. (805) 893-3261
John MacKay, Editor Ex tempore 126 8-10 Union St. Westfield, MA 01085 E-mail: johnwmackay@yahoo.com ¡¡ ¡¡ ¡¡ ¡¡ |