Michael D. Golden, DMA Academic Administration - Undergraduate Program Staff Faculty - Full-Time Professor of Music Composition and Theory Director of Creative Arts Phone: 949-480-4025 Fax: 949-480-4263 Email: golden@soka.edu

• D.M.A., Univ. of Washington (1992)
• M.M., Univ. of Oregon
• B.M., Univ. of Oregon

• At SUA since 1998
• 1995 - 1998, Assoc. Prof. of Music, Marshall University
• 1993 - 1995, Visiting Asst Prof. of Music, Colby College

• Music Composition and Theory (incl. Jazz and Computer applications)
• World Music
• Music and: Philosophy, Cognition, Culture, Religion, . . .

• FramesetuDe, Les Productions D'Oz, 2000
• FramesetuDe (recording), LaFlame, Records, 1997
• The Sea Change, and Other Stories, New Ariel Records, 1997
• Echoes in Eternal Light (a setting of Ko-jyo-no Tsuki), Kansai 21st Century Symphony Orchestra, 2004
• Bidder to Better, New Albany Records, 2004
• Suite Ceremonial, Commission: Aliso Viejo Symphony Orchestra, 2001
• Three Friends, Commission: South Orange County Chamber Orchestra, 2003
• It's a Long, Long River, Commission: Huntington Symphony Orchestra, 1997

• Introduction to Music Composition
• Music Composition II: Composing Tonal Music
• Music Composition with the Computer
• Introduction to World Music
• Core I: Enduring Questions of Humanity
• Learning Cluster I: The El Toro Re-use Issue
• Jazz Piano
• Jazz Ensemble

• 1st Prize, Guitar Foundation of America Intl. Composition Comp., 1996
• Meet the Composer/Commission Music USA Award, 1997
• ASCAP Standard Panel Award, 1997 - 2005

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