Thomas Oboe Lee
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Experience
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Boston College
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Professor
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Sep 1990 - Present
I teach music theory and composition. I teach music theory and composition.
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Composer
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1974 - Present
Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. To date Mr. Lee has composed more than 175 works: nine symphonies, sixteen concertos for various solo instruments, twelve string quartets, a 100-minute two-act chamber opera “The Inman Diaries,” forty choral works and song cycles, and tons of solo and chamber works. His music has received many awards, among them the Rome Prize Fellowship, two Guggenheim Fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts Composers Fellowships, two Massachusetts Artists Fellowships, and First Prize at the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards for his String Quartet No. 3 ... "child of Uranus, father of Zeus.” He has received commissions from many organizations including Amnesty International USA, the Fromm Music Foundation, the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the Kronos Quartet, the Manhattan String Quartet, the Lydian String Quartet, the Hawthorne String Quartet, the Formosa Quartet, the Artaria Quartet, Apple Hill Chamber Players, the American Jazz Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, the Civic Symphony Orchestra of Boston, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the Boston Classical Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Ten of his early works originally published by Margun Music Inc. are now available at G. Schirmer Inc./Associated Music Publishers. The rest is self-published under the moniker, Departed Feathers Music - a BMI affiliate. Compact disk recordings of his music are available on Nonesuch, Koch International Classics, Arsis Audio, MCA Classics, BMOP Sound and GM Recordings. More info @ http://www.thomasoboelee.com
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American Academy in Rome
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United States
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Rome Prize Fellow
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Sep 1986 - Jul 1987
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National Endowment for the Arts
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United States
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Government Administration
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100 - 200 Employee
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NEA Composers Fellowship
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1987 - 1987
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Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition
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1986 - 1986
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Charles Ives Fellowship
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1985 - 1985
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Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition
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1983 - 1983
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National Endowment for the Arts
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United States
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Government Administration
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100 - 200 Employee
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NEA Composers Fellowship
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1983 - 1983
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Berkshire Music Center @ Tanglewood
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Lenox, Massachusetts
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Koussevitsky Foundation Fellowship
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Jul 1976 - Aug 1976
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Education
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Harvard University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Music Theory and Composition -
New England Conservatory of Music
Master's degree in Music -
University of Pittsburgh
Bachelor's degree, Music