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Vineet A. Shende
Assistant Professor of Music
Spring 2008
- Music of South Asia (ASIAN 139)
- Introduction to Composition (MUS 243)
- Intermediate Independent Study in Music (MUS 292)
- Senior Project in Music (MUS 451)
| Phone | (207) 798-7055 |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Department | MUSIC |
| Work Location | 208 Gibson Hall |
| vshende@bowdoin.edu |
Education:
B.A., Grinnell College
M.M., Butler University
D.M.A., Cornell University
Vineet Shende's areas of interest include composition, electronic music, music theory, rock music, and the influence of non-Western music and culture on Western concert music. His principal composition teachers have been Roberto Sierra, Steven Stucky, Michael Schelle, and Jonathan Chenette.
Shende's compositions have won numerous awards, including the 2001 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and the 2000 Robbins Prize, and have been performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Taiwan. Recent commissions include a piece for Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra, performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in June 2003. He is also active as a tenor and guitarist.