Colin Stack, 11 Anson St. Apt 3, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Phone: (617-877-0178) 
email:  colin_stack@hotmail.com


Teaching Positions
National Guitar Workshop, New Milford, CT -
Classroom instruction on composition, songwriting, guitar,
piano, music theory, and voice.  ( 2004 - present )

Brookline Public Schools (2005 - present)


Principal Commissioned Works

• Identity Crisis, for a six piece chamber ensemble ( Winner of the 2004 NEC Honors Competition )
          Commissioned by Eliot Gattegno, 2003
  
   Another Roadside Attraction, for a nine piece chamber ensemble
          Commissioned by Lori Smukala, 2003
  
   Beautiful Girl Syndrome, for string quartet
          Commissioned by Gabriel Schlaffer, 2003
  
  Confession, for voice and guitar (also scored for chamber ensemble and voice)
          Commissioned by Steven Lin and Heather Chew
  
  Several Shades of Reflection, for twelve saxophones
          Commissioned by The Boston Conservatory Saxophone Ensemble, 2002
  
  Radio Child, for wind quartet
          Commissioned by Chaycie Krammer, 2002
  
  Perpetual Deja vu, for saxophone quartet
          Commissioned by Mike Anklewicz, 2002
  
  Public Alley 809, for chamber orchestra
           Commissioned by The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, 2001
  
   Elements of a Recurring Dream, for small chamber ensemble
           Written for the DaCapo Chamber Players, 1997

    
Premieres of Works
    John Knowles Pain Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2003
    Jordan Hall, The New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, 1998-2004
    Seully Hall, The Boston Conservatory, 2002
    Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, 2002
    Providence College, Providence, MA, 2002
    Holy Cross Church, Kingston, NY, 2001
    Olin Hall, Annandale on Hudson, NY, 2001
    Brown University, Providence, MA, 2000
    Williams Hall, The New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, 1998-2004
    Brown Hall, The New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, 1998-2004
    Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 1997
    Blume Hall, Bard College, Annandale on  Hudson, NY, 1997
    The Diana Performing Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 1996
    The National Guitar Summer Workshop, New Milford, CT, 1994-96

Awards and Honors

• Winner of the New England Conservatory Honors Competition for John Heiss' Contemporary Ensemble,  Boston, MA,  2004
• Featured composer on The Harvard Group for New Music concert series, Cambridge, MA, 2003
• Featured composer performed by The DaCapo Chamber Players while attending Bard College,
• Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1997
• Scholarship, Bard College, The Red Hook Highschool Bridge Program,Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1997-98
• Scholarship, The National Guitar Summer Workshop, New Milford CT, 1994-96

• New England Conservatory of Music, Boston MA
• 
  Bachelor of Music in Composition, 2002
• 
  Masters of Music Composition, anticipated 2004
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  Bard College, The Red Hook Highschool Bridge Program,
  Annandale-on-Hudson NY, 1997-98    

• Eastern U.S. Music Camp (Summer Festival),
  Hamilton NY, 1996

• The National Guitar Summer Workshop (Summer Festival),
  New Milford, CT, 1994-97