Resume

Stefan Kac

stefan [at] stefankac [dot] com

Education

Schools Attended

•Master of Fine Arts, Performer-Composer (California Institute of the Arts, 2013)

•Bachelor of Music, Tuba Performance (University of Minnesota, 2005)

•National Student Exchange (University of Northern Colorado, 2003-04 School Year)

Teachers (Tuba)

•Douglas Tornquist, California Institute of the Arts, 2011-13

•David Werden, U.S. Coast Guard Band (ret.), University of Minnesota, 2004-05

•Jason Byrnes, University of Northern Colorado, 2003-04

•Ross Tolbert, Minnesota Orchestra, University of Minnesota, 2000-03

•Stephen Grove, MacPhail Center for Music, Minneapolis, 1998-2000

Teachers (Composition)

•Anne LeBaron, California Institute of the Arts, 2012-13

•Michael Jon Fink, California Institute of the Arts, 2011-12

Teachers (Improvisation)

•Vinny Golia, California Institute of the Arts, 2012

•Dana Landry, University of Northern Colorado, 2004

Honors and Awards

Workshops/Residencies

•Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Phase I Intensive

(American Composers Orchestra/Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University)

August 7-11, 2012

•Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead (John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts)

March 23-April 1, 2005

Performance

•Winner, 2008 International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA) Roger Bobo Award for Recording

Excellence (Jazz/Rock/Fusion/Commercial Category)

•Placed on Minnesota Orchestra Substitute List (January 2007 auditions)

•Winner, 2006 ITEA Rich Matteson Jazz Competition

•Winner, 2005 Tubonium (ITEA Upper Midwest Regional Conference) Solo Competition

•Finalist, 2005 WAMSO (Minnesota Orchestra Volunteer Association) Young Artist Competition

•Awarded 2005 WAMSO/St. Paul Civic Symphony Performance Opportunity

(performed Tuba Concerto by John Williams, December 11, 2005)

•Awarded 2005 WAMSO/Schubert Club of St. Paul Recital Performance Opportunity

(performed solo recital October 27, 2005)

•International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) Special Citation for Outstanding Musicianship (solo),

34th UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival, April 22-24, 2004

Composition

•American Composers Forum subito Grant, 2010

•Winner, 2010 ITEA Harvey Philips Award for Composition Excellence

(Tuba Featured in Chamber Music category)

•Winner, 2006 ITEA Harvey Phillips Award for Composition Excellence

(Tuba Featured in Jazz/Rock/Fusion category)

•Winner, Zeitgeist Eric Stokes Composition Contest, 2001

•Winner, Zeitgeist Eric Stokes Composition Contest, 2000

Academic

•CalArts Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, 2011-12 and 2012-13

•Minneapolis Foundation Jane Burkleo Memorial Scholarship, University of Minnesota School of Music,

2000-03 and 2004-05

Teaching Experience

Classroom

•Graduate Assistant, California Institute of the Arts

-Counterpoint, Spring 2013

-Graduate Theory Review, Fall 2012

-Musicianship Skills D, Spring 2012

-Musicianship Skills A, Fall 2011

•Instructor, Open Instrumentation Symphonic Jazz Band

California Institute of the Arts, 2013 Interim Session

•Instructor, Improvised Music Workshop (with Milo Fine), West Bank School of Music, 2011

•Instructor, Jazz History and Listening, West Bank School of Music, 2007, 2010

Private Lessons

•Instructor of Low Brass, West Bank School of Music, Minneapolis, MN, 2005-11

•Freelance Low Brass Instructor, Twin Cities Area, 2005-11

Other

•Clinician/Adjudicator, Two Rivers Jazz Festival (Braham, MN), 2011

•Director, Two Rivers Honors Jazz Band, 2011

•Clinician, Copper Street Brass Quintet Educational Outreach Programs, 2009-11

•Low Brass Sectional Coach, Colorado All-State Bands, 2004

Service

•West Bank School of Music Program Committee, 2006-08

•West Bank School of Music Spring Faculty Recital Coordinator, 2007 and 2008

•Volunteer, KBEM-FM Jazz 88 Fall 2006 Pledge Drive

•University of Minnesota School of Music Undergraduate Advisory Committee

(Elected for 2004-05 School Year)

•Search committee for Professor of Composition and New Media,

University of Minnesota School of Music, 2002

Print Publications

•Lights of Loveland (Tuba-Euphonium Press, Baltimore, MD, 2007)

•Brass Quintet No. 3 (Brass Chamber Music Press, Boone, NC, 2004)

•Serenade for Bass Tuba (Tuba-Euphonium Press, Baltimore, MD, 2003)

•Serenade for Euphonium (Tuba-Euphonium Press, Baltimore, MD, 2003)

Recordings

•Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto/The Dog Star Orchestra

D minor/Bb Major (2012)

•The Copper Street Brass Quintet,

The Evolution of the Brass Quintet (2010)

•The Copper Street Brass Quintet,

Christmas on Copper Street (2010)

•The Milo Fine Free Jazz Ensemble, The Untenability of

Sentience/More Wistful Tunes for the SIncere (2009)

•The Copper Street Brass Quintet, Extended Play (2009)

•Ingo Bethke, Ingo Bethke (2009)

•Pan-Metropolitan Trio, Isolation,(Independent Release, 2007)

•Brian Setzer: 13 (Surfdog Records, Los Angeles, CA, 2006)

•The Fellowship: In Elven Lands

(Voiceprint Records, England, 2005)

•Mick Sterling: Between Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

(BEI Records, Brooklyn Center, MN, 2005)

•Bruce Pearson and Mary Elledge: accompanying CD to

Standard of Excellence Festival Solos- Tuba

(Neil A. Kjos Music Company, San Diego, CA, 2003)