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In February of 2007, I wrote a thorough evaluation of Dr. Hee-Kyung Juhn for her Excellence Review Committee for the right to a Continuing Appointment after six years of being a UCSB Lecturer.

· Professor Anne Epperson (collaborative piano): September " June 2002

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Teaching

Music

· UCSB Music Department, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6070

e Teaching assistant in first and second-year musicianship (4A-F)

September 23, 2005 (fall quarter) " June 1, 2007 (spring quarter)

Reference: Dr. Annie Yih, (805) 455-5538

In February 2007, I wrote a thorough evaluation of Dr. Annie Yih for her Excellence Review Committee for the right to a Continuing Appointment after six years of being a UCSB Lecturer.

e Teaching assistant in first-year music theory (5B-C)

January 7, 2004 (winter quarter) " June 11, 2004 (spring quarter)

Reference: Professor Patricia Hall, (805) 893-4001

· Private piano, composition and theory teacher

August, 1999 " the present

· Kidstuff, UCSB Family Student Housing, 786 Laurel Walk, Goleta, CA 93117

e Group recorder classes

October 21, 2003 " May 2004

e Group music fundamentals classes

February 27, 2004 " May 2004

· Lompoc School of Music, 601 East Ocean Avenue, Suite 9, Lompoc, CA 93436

Private piano and composition instructor

May 14, 2003 " February 6, 2004

Reference: Founder and Owner: Karen Foreman, (805) 736-9933

Math and English

· Huntington Learning Center, 3905 State Street, #6, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

Math and English tutor

May 7 " September 24, 2003

Reference: Center Director: Jeff Gleason, (805) 898-3948

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Other Work Experience

· U.C.S.B. Housing and Residential Services, 786 Laurel Walk, Goleta, CA 93117

Resident Coordinator

January 5, 2004 " August 31, 2005

Reference: Family Student Housing Apartment Living Coordinator: Mario Munoz

· Andersen’s Restaurant,  1106 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Pianist (repertoire, compositions and improvisations)

May 2001 " January 2002 [Thursday " Sunday in the summer, Friday & Saturday the rest of the year, 6 pm " closing (approx. 8:30)]

Berti Andersen, (805) 962-5085

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Awards

· UCSB: Graduate

e Won First Prize in the 2007-2008 Sherrill C. Corwin-Metropolitan Theatres Awards for Excellence in a Large Ensemble Composition with New Life

e Won Third Prize in the 2007-2008 Sherrill C. Corwin-Metropolitan Theatres Awards for Excellence in an Electroacoustic Work with Primal Visions

e Won Second Prize in the 2006-2007 Sherrill C. Corwin-Metropolitan Theatres Awards for Excellence in a Chamber Work

e Won First Prize in the 2005-2006 Sherrill C. Corwin-Metropolitan Theatres Awards for Excellence in an Electro-Acoustical Work with Behind the Door

e Won First Prize in the 2004-2005 Sherrill C. Corwin-Metropolitan Theatres Awards for Excellence in a Vocal Composition with Quiet Burning

e Won Second Prize in the 2003-2004 Sherrill C. Corwin-Metropolitan Theatres Awards for Excellence in a Vocal Composition with Embrace Peace

· UCSB: Undergraduate

e Won Second Prize in the 2002-2003 Sherrill C. Corwin-Metropolitan Theatres Awards for Excellence in a Large Ensemble Composition with The Five Elements

e Graduated with Distinction in Music

e Graduated with Honors

e Completed the Honors Program

e Member of the Provost Honors Council for one and a quarter years

e Achieved Dean's Honors 7 times

e Lifetime Member of the Golden Key International Honour Society

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Presentations

· Guest lecturer at Moorpark College in Humanities M02: Individual and the Arts on March 5, 2009, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Instructors: Nils Slattum, Tracy Tennenhouse and Jerrold R. Caplan

The lecture focused on the improvisation-composition continuum, with examples from Western art music and my own work.

· Featured composer at the UCSB Composer’s Forum, which consisted of a one-hour presentation of my recent compositions and compositional philosophy, on May 31, 2005

· Presented An Unexpected Opening to Horacio Vaggione in a UCSB composition master class on May 16, 2005

· Presented Burning to Shine, for unaccompanied viola, to a UCSB viola master class with Kurt Rohde on March 10, 2005

Note: several students attempted the work in the class and one of them performed it at a violist/composer collaborative recital on March 31, 2005.

· Presented Breathing to Center, for viola and piano, to the UCSB collaborative piano class, taught by Yael Weiss, in the fall of 2005

Note: each of five pianists attempted the work with the same violist.

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Commissions

· Charlene Chi

With All Your Heart (April 8, 2005), for mezzo-soprano and three sopranos

For Charlene Chi’s MM recital, to be performed with three of her graduate, vocalist friends

· Dora Lambrecht

This Tender Moment (August 20, 2004), for piano

In honor of Dora Lambrecht and David Lindstrom’s relationship

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Musical Donation

· Honeypot

Hope (fall, 2000), for piano

This piece was chosen to be the music score to Honeypot’s promotional video, “Amy’s Story”.

“Honeypot exists to enhance the lives of very vulnerable children and young carers aged between 5 and 12, across the UK, by supporting their social development through respite care and a programme of long term support.”

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Performances

Composition

Acoustic

Performed by Lybarger-Monson on Piano or Percussion

· A performance of Primacy in the spring UCSB C.R.E.A.T.E. concert, in Lotte Lehmann concert hall, UCSB, on April 24, 2008

· An Ph.D. recital of various works, entitled Breath of Life, in Lotte Lehmann concert hall, UCSB, on January 20, 2008

· An MA recital of various works, entitled Suspended on a Breath, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on May 22, 2005

· A BA recital of various works, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on April 20, 2002

· Dr. Hee-Kyung Juhn’s student piano recitals, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB

e Stars Ripple in this Reflection, fall quarter 2005

e Floating Above Ground, spring quarter 2005

e Bleeding into Everything, winter quarter 2005

e Awakening of the Butterflies, spring quarter 2004

e The Solemn Sea Exalts the Sky, winter quarter 2004

e Incense, winter quarter 2003

e An Open Window in Winter, fall quarter 2002

Performed by Other Musicians & Lybarger-Monson on Piano, Percussion or Voice

· A performance of Breath Fire ~ Bliss Storm (Improvised Version) in Emilee Wong’s Junior Flute Recital, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on May 10, 2008

· In Ph.D., MA & BA composition recitals (listed above)

· Dr. Hee-Kyung Juhn’s student piano recitals, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB

e Droplets and an interactive improvisation, spring quarter 2006 (with cello and solo dancer)

· A performance of Merge with Dust and Into a Silent Om in Songs of Faith, a UCSB Faculty and Staff Choral Ensemble recital, at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, on June 2, 2005

· A performance of Merge and Emerge: I. Harmonic Rising in EPIC’s (Ensemble for the Performance of Improvisational Collaborations) debut concert, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on May 24, 2006

· A two-hour outdoor instillation of Merge and Emerge: I. Harmonic Rising, featured by EPIC at the Spatiotemporal Transforms instillation of UCSB’s Primavera festival, in the Music Bowl, UCSB, on April 21, 2006

· Five performances of Brittani Karhoff’s A Breath of Air, in the UCSB senior dance concert of Looking Within the In, at UCSB’s Ballet Studio Theatre, from March 9 through 12, 2006. The programmatic music was co-composed, performed and improvised by Devin Burke (cello) and Mark Lybarger-Monson (piano).

· A performance of Breathing to Center in a violist/composer collaborative recital, in Music 1145, UCSB, on March 31, 2005

· A performance of Into a Silent Om in A Tribute to John Cage concert, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on November 20, 2003

Performed by Other Musicians

· In Ph.D., MA & BA composition recitals (listed above)

· A performance of Awakening of the Butterflies in the Tableaux for Our Time concert of UCSB’s Primavera festival, in Lotte Lehmann concert hall, UCSB, on May 12, 2005

· A performance of With All Your Heart in Charlene Chi’s MM voice recital, at Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on May 1, 2005

· A performance of Burning to Shine in a violist/composer collaborative recital, in Music 1145, UCSB, on March 31, 2005

· A performance of It’s a Good Day to Die in A Tribute to John Cage concert, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on November 20, 2003

· A performance of Embrace Peace in the Art/ Spirit/ Peace concert of UCSB’s Primavera festival, in Lotte Lehmann concert hall, UCSB, on April 23, 2003

· A Distinction in Music recital of The Five Elements, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on March 8, 2003

Electroacoustic

· In Ph.D. & MA composition recitals (listed above)

· A performance of Merge and Emerge: I. Harmonic Rising in EPIC’s (Ensemble for the Performance of Improvisational Collaborations) debut concert, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on May 24, 2006

· A performance of Overflowing on a Quiet Night at Wave Pulse at the fall UCSB C.R.E.A.T.E. concert, in Lotte Lehmann concert hall, UCSB, on November 10, 2005

· A performance of An Unexpected Opening in Beyond Style in the spring UCSB C.R.E.A.T.E. concert, in Lotte Lehmann concert hall, UCSB, on May 14, 2005

· A performance of The Seventh Limit at Newborn Creations in the winter UCSB C.R.E.A.T.E. concert, in Lotte Lehmann concert hall, UCSB, on February 17, 2005

Improvisations Performed by Lybarger-Monson on Piano, Percussion and/or Voice – Solo or Ensemble

· In Ph.D., MA & BA composition recitals (listed above)

· EPIC (Ensemble for the Performance of Improvisational Collaborations)—co-initiated by Devin Burke and Mark Lybarger-Monson

e Performance with Cesar Villavicencio - virtuoso MIDI contrabass recorder player - in a Free Improvisation Project, in Lotte Lehmann concert hall, UCSB, on April 14, 2007

e Improvisation performance and demonstration at La Patera elementary school, Goleta, on May 26, 2006

e Debut concert, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, on May 24, 2006.

e A two-hour outdoor instillation of Merge and Emerge: I. Harmonic Rising, featured by EPIC at the Spatiotemporal Transforms instillation of UCSB’s Primavera festival, in the Music Bowl, UCSB, on April 21, 2006

e Five pre-show performances to Looking Within the In, UCSB senior dance concert of in the lobby of UCSB’s Ballet Studio Theatre, from March 9 through 12, 2006

Repertoire

Piano

· Biannual (approximately 2 out of every 3 quarters) performances in Dr. Hee-Kyung Juhn’s Piano Studio Recitals, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB, from March 2002 to June 2007

· Three performances in Professor Anne Epperson’s Collaborative Piano recitals, in Karl Geiringer hall, UCSB

e June 2002

e March 2002

e December 2001

Percussion

· Performed darbuka in a UCSB Middle East Ensemble concert, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, on December 1, 2005

· Played djembe in a weekly residential Jazz Jam and workshop, which I co-initiated, from November 2004 to December 2004

Voice

· Two UCSB Faculty and Staff Choral Ensemble recitals at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara

e Songs of Faith, on June 2, 2005

e An American Patchwork, on March 10, 2005

Composition, Improvisation & Repertoire on Piano

· Performed keyboard in two children’s plays

e Wild Thing, at Storke family housing, UCSB, on July 7 and 8, 2005

e The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, at Storke family housing, UCSB, on August 13, 2004

· Numerous performances at Friendship Manor Elder Home, from the summer, 2001 (weekly since August, 2002) to August 2004

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