EDUCATION

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, May 2010
Dissertation: “Warping and Splintering” for orchestra
Minor areas: Theory & Analysis, Piano Performance, Electroacoustic Music
Teaching Assistant, Composition/Pedagogical Technology
Sadye J. Moss Composition Prize, 2010
Composition studies with Donald Crockett, Frank Ticheli & Tamar Diesendruck

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Master of Music in Composition, 2005
Bachelor of Music in Composition with High Honors, 2002
Bachelor of Arts in English with High Honors, 2002
Thesis: “Fragments of the Dreaming World” for orchestra
James B. Angell Scholar, Eugene V. Dumesnil Scholarship, Regents-Alumni Scholarship
Composition studies with William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Michael Daugherty, Evan Chambers, Erik Santos, James Aikman & Susan Botti
Piano studies with Philip Bush & Sergio de los Cobos

RESIDENCIES & FESTIVALS

USC Music Cognition and Computation Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
Artist in Residence, 2010-present
Music technology and improvisation research including several published papers; guest lectures in electronic music; co-creation of BoeBot Music Ensemble, Harvester audio installation, Mimi4x audio installation; live performances with Mimi (Multimodal Interaction for Musical Improvisation) software

Catalysis Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Resident Artist, 2010-present
Performance of “Honey, Milk and Blood” for women’s chorus and electronics; co-organization of interdisciplinary “Microtextual” concert

Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
Associate Artist, 2009
Composition studies with Mark Applebaum
Performance of “Mobile 0” for accordion and electronics; live improvised performances; arranger and accompanist for performance artist Brian Feldman’s “Under the Covers”

Brevard Music Center, Brevard, NC
Teaching Fellow, 2007; Ensemble Director, 2006; Composition Fellow, 2004-07
Composition studies with Robert Aldridge, Don Freund, Bright Sheng, David Cutler & Maria Newman; taught advanced music theory curriculum (2007); directed and conducted new music ensemble “itch” (2006); various performances

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

As guest lecturer:
Structure in Music, ISE 575a
University of Southern California, Spring 2011
Experimental Sound Practices: Rules & Space, MC617
California Institute of the Arts, Spring 2011
Special Studies in Post-Tonal Analysis: Electronic Music, MUCO 575
University of Southern California, Spring 2011
Advanced Improvisation and Game Pieces
Machine Project, Spring 2010

As instructor/teaching assistant:
Composition Camp Instructor, Summer 2010-11
MacPhail Center of Music, Minneapolis, MN
Teaching Assistant, Composition/Pedagogical Technology, 2007-08
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Music Theory Instructor, Summer 2007
Brevard Music Center, Brevard, NC
General Music Teacher, 2006
USC Thornton School of Music Outreach, Los Angeles, CA
Composition, Theory, Piano and Accordion Teacher, 2001-present
Private studio instruction

NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

Mobile I for violin and electronics
    -To be performed 9/2011, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY
    -Performed 4/2010, SEAMUS Conference, St. Cloud, MN
    -ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composition Competition Finalist
Light and Power, chamber opera with libretto by Jillian Burcar
    -Performed 6/2011, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Cambridge, MA
Ghost Almanac for seven players (fl., cl., asx., vln., hp., pno, perc.)
    -Performed 6/2011, HEAR NOW Festival, Venice, CA
Honey, Milk and Blood for women’s chorus and electronics
    -Performed 4/2011, Microtextual concert, Los Angeles, CA
The Harvester, interactive audio installation
    -Presented 4/2011, Electronics Live!, Riverside, CA
Man on Wiire for piano, accelerometer and electronics
    -Performed 3/2011, Cal State Fullerton New Music Festival, Fullerton, CA
4/four, collaborative compositions with Bibi Calderaro (2 vln., 2 cl., 2 tba., 2 acc.)
    -Performed 11/2010, Little William Theater Festival of New Music, Los Angeles, CA
Mimi4x, audio-visual installation with Alexandre François
    -Presented 7/2010, IEEE Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Singapore, Singapore
Prisoner of Vampires for voice and electronics
    -Performed 6/2010, International Computer Music Conference, New York, NY
Mobile II for viola and electronics
    -Performed 5/2010, the Los Angeles Composers Project, Los Angeles, CA
Splintering for orchestra (2 + picc, 2 + e.hn, 2 + b.cl, 2 + cb / 4331 / 3, pno, hp / str)
    -Performed 2/2010, USC Thornton Symphony, Los Angeles, CA
Sharp for soprano and chamber ensemble (fl., cl., vln., vc., pno., perc.)
    -Performed 9/2008, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Boston, MA
    -Performed 11/2007, USC Contemporary Music Ensemble, Los Angeles, CA

PUBLICATIONS

Smith J. and Schankler I. (forthcoming). Review of the 3rd International Conference on Mathematics and Computation in Music. Computer Music Journal 35:4 (Winter 2011).

Schankler I., François A. R., and Chew E. (forthcoming). Preparing for the unpredictable: Identifying successful performance strategies in human-machine improvisation. In Proceedings of the International Symposium of Performance Science, Toronto, ON, August 2011.

Schankler I., Smith J., François A. R., and Chew E. (2011). Emergent formal structures of factor-oracle driven musical improvisations. In C. Agon, M. Andreatta, G. Assayag et al. (eds.), Proceedings of Mathematics and Computation in Music. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

François, A. R. J., Schankler, I., and Chew, E. (2010). Mimi4x: An Interactive Audio-visual Installation for High-level Structural Improvisation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Installations and Digital Art (IMIDA 2010), Singapore, July 23.  (Expanded version to appear in International Journal of Arts and Technology.)

AWARDS, GRANTS & COMMISSIONS

Commission of new work for alto sax and electronics; The Illumina Project, 2011
Commission of new work for oboe and electronics; The Loboe Project, 2011
Meet the Composer Grant, MetLife Creative Connections, 2011
Commission of chamber opera Light and Power; Juventas New Music Ensemble, 2010
Subito Grant, American Composers Forum, 2010
USC Sadye J. Moss Composition Prize, 2010
ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition Finalist, 2010
Commission of Mobile II for viola and electronics; What’s Next Ensemble, 2010
Commission of Man on Wiire for piano and electronics; Aron Kallay, 2010
Commission of 4/four for 2 cl., 2 vln., 2 tba. and 2 acc.; Machine Project, 2010
Commission of Mobile I for violin and electronics; Andrew Tholl, 2009
ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award Finalist, 2008
Damien Top Prize, ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition, 2007
Commission of Ma Ville for high voice and piano, Lotte Lehmann Foundation, 2007
ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award Finalist, 2007
Carolyn Alchin Endowed Music Scholarship, USC Thornton School of Music, 2005
James B. Angell Scholar, University of Michigan, 2001
Eugene V. Dumesnil Scholarship, University of Michigan, 2000
Regents-Alumni Scholarship, University of Michigan, 1997

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer (articles), International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2011
Reviewer (concert works), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), 2010

ADMINISTRATION & CONCERT PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE

People Inside Electronics
Artistic Co-director, 2009-present
With co-director Aron Kallay, production of ongoing electroacoustic music concert series

Dog Star Orchestra
Assistant Producer, 2009
Organization of concert featuring John Cage’s Song Books

Brevard Music Center
New Music Ensemble Director, 2006
Conductor and concert director of student new music ensemble, “itch”

University of Michigan
Chair, Composers Forum Committee, 2004-05
Coordination of student new music series

DISCOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY

Music for short film: Blocking the Exits by Christopher O’Leary, 2011 (composer)
Album: AK and Her Kalashnikovs, AK and Her Kalashnikovs, 2011 (accordion)
Album: The Shpil, The Shpil, 2011 (composer, arranger, piano, accordion)
Album: Prisoner of Vampires, Prisoner of Vampires, 2009 (composer, electronics)
Music featured in full-length film: Half-life, dir. Jennifer Phang, 2008 (improviser, piano)
Album: Into the Freylakh, The Shape of Klez to Come, 2004 (composer, piano, accordion)
Album: Into the Freylakh, Into the Freylakh (piano)

AFFILIATIONS

American Composers Forum
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
College Music Society
Society of Composers, Inc.
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS)

REFERENCES

Available upon request.