Stephen Jaffe

Guest Composer Seminar - University of South Carolina School of Music · 2019 Invited Talk University of South Carolina School of Music, Columbia, South Carolina

Also in 2003.

Maurice Abravanel Distinguished Composer - Abravanel Distinguished Composer Series · November 2015 Other University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Conductor, HIP Concerto (Chamber Concerto No. 3) - North Carolina HIP Festival · 2014 Other Mallarme Chamber Players, Durham, NC

Panelist - Take A Stand Conference, Duke University · December 15, 2013 Other Supporting Social Change Through Music Regional Professional Development Session. National initiative between the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Longy School of Music, and Bard College whose goal is social change through music., Duke University

Invited Lectures ; Stephen Jaffe, Panelist ; http://www.kidznotes.org/2013/take-a-stand/ ; Take A Stand: Supporting Social Change Through Music Regional Professional Development Session. National initiative between the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Longy School of Music, and Bard College whose goal is social change through music.

On My Compositions · May 12, 2013 Invited Talk Lithuanian Composers Union, Vilnius, Lithuanian House of Composers, Vilnius

Reflections On New Media, The Orchestra, and the Documentary Impulse · May 10, 2013 Lecture Kaunus University of Technology, Lithuania, KUT, Kaunas, Lithuania

Invited Lectures ; http://ktu.lt/hmf/naujienos/naujuju-mediju-orkestro-ir-dokumentuoto-impulso-refleksijos

Guest Composer - New Music Festival · December 16, 2011 Lecture Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Invited Lectures ; Attended the festival and rehearsals for POETRY OF THE PIEDMONT, for orchestra, conducted by Emily Freeman Brown.

Composer in Residence · December 16, 2011 Lecture Walden School, Dublin New Hampshire

Invited Lecture

Composer in Residence · December 16, 2011 Lecture Rice University School of Music, Houston, TX

Invited Lectures

Guest Composer · December 16, 2011 Lecture Furman University,

Invited Lectures

Participant · August 14, 2011 Other National Flute Association Convention, Charlotte, NC

Invited Lectures ; National Flute Association Convention Session by Sue Ann Kahn, Flute and Andrew Willis, piano devoted to two compositions: Stephen Jaffe "Three Figures and a Ground" (1989) and George Rochberg "Between Two Worlds" (1982).

Composers Conference, Guest Composer · January 17, 2008 Lecture Wellesley College, Massachusetts

Featured Composer - Lontano Festival of Contemporary Music · 2008 Other Lontano, London, London

Guest Composer · 2007 Invited Talk Academy of Music, Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Coincident with first performance in Europe of my Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, by Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Toshiru Yonezu, conducting, David Hardy, cello solo.

Guest of the Festival - Tanglewood Music Center, Festival of Contemporary Music · 2006 Other Boston Symphony Orchestra, Lenox, MA

Also 1989 and 1991

Guest Composer - Composer's Forum · 2005 Other Juilliard School of Music, New York

Guest Conductor, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble Stephen Jaffe Chamber Concerto ("Singing Figures") · 1996 Other Orchestra of St. Luke's, Guggenheim Museum, NY

Guest Composer, Conductor and Pianist - Music Now! Prague · 1995 Other Music Now! Prague, Music Academy, Prague, and Sala Martinu

Guest Conductor, Stephen Jaffe Four Songs with Ensemble - Spectrum Concerts · 1993 Other Spectrum Concerts, Berlin, Kammermusiksaal der philharmonie, Berlin

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Master Artist - Atlantic Center for the Arts · 2006 Innovation Atlantic Center for the Arts , New Smyrna Beach flag

Florida

Guest Composer - Oregon Bach Festival "Bach and the Americas" · 1996 Event Participation Oregon Bach Festival , Eugene flag

Oregon

Service to the Profession

Member, Awards Panel - BMI Awards for Student Composers · April 2019 Committee Service Broadcast Music, Inc., New York

Member, Awards Panel - Music Awards · 2015 - 2019 Committee Service American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York

Evaluator for US and International Music Departments and Foundations · 2015 Consulting Various,

Member : External Review Committee, Haverford College · December 15, 2013 Editorial Activities Haverford College Department of Music

Member of the Jury : Juventus 2013 International Choral Competition · May 2013 Editorial Activities Kaunas, Lithuania

Member : Final Judging Panel, RedNote Composition Competition, School of Music, Illinois State University · November 2012 - December 2012 Editorial Activities Illinois State University School of Music

Member : External Review, Department of Music, Brown University · October 2012 Other

Member : External Review, Department of Music, Boston College · April 30, 2012 - May 3, 2012 Other

Member : External Advisory Committee, Bogliasco Foundation · 2012 Editorial Activities Bogliasco, Italy and New York

Service to Duke

Director of Graduate Studies (Department) · 2020 Committee Service Duke University Department of Music,

This is my third stint as DGS in our department. During the pandemic, it is my privilege to assist graduate students in their studies.

Academic Priorities Committee (University) · 2012 - 2015 Committee Service Office of the Provost,

Supervisor . Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship · December 16, 2011 Other

Other ; Dr. Daniel Thomas Davis ; http://www.danielthomasdavis.com/

Chair, Department of Music · 2007 - 2010 Other Duke University,

Acting Chair, Department of Music . Duke · January 2002 - July 2002 Other Duke University,

Chair, Department of Music · 1993 - 1996 Other Duke University, Durham

Graduate Studies, Director (DGS) (Program) · 1990 - 1993 Committee Service Duke University Department of Music,

Artistic and Administrative Direction . Encounters: With the Music of Our Time and Mary Duke Biddle Distinguished Composer Residency · 1981 - 2010 Event/Organization Administration Duke University Department of Music, Durham

Artistic and administrative direction, of contemporary music concert series Encounters: with the Music of Our Time, 1981-91; Co-director 1992- (with Professor Scott Lindroth). Presented over three hundred new works in an annual series of concerts including such twentieth century classics as Ligeti's Chamber Concerto as well as newer works ranging from Carter, Andreissen, Donatoni to John Supko, Jennifer Higdon and David Lang. Annual fund raising from such organizations as Meet The Composer, Inc., Netherlands Ministry of Culture, Chamber Arts Society, Duke/UNC Program in Latin American Studies, North Carolina Arts Council, etc.
--Mary Duke Biddle Distinguished Composer Residency, was coordinated with Professor Lindroth, 1989-2000. Program brought distinguished composers to campus for extensive visits and master classes, seminars, and related concerts in the department. (Reorganized as Visiting Composers Program, 1999).
--Duke/UNC Consortium for New Music initiated, 1999. Festivals held at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill: Milestones 2002, 2004 and 2007.

Academic & Administrative Activities

Director of Graduate Studies, Duke University Department of Music, 2020-