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February 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

· Dr. Charles Asche: September 2000 " June 2001

· Norman Mamey: August 1998 " May 2000

· Randy Polovoi: January 1998 " May 1998

· Alex Galvan: January 1997 " December 1998

· Osborne Reager: on and off throughout youth

· Freeda Yeager: 1983 " 1984 (first grade)

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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

· Three dinner parties

e Winter 2004

e Two in 1999

· Obed Muringani’s art opening in Santa Barbara, on September 25, 2003

· Senior (citizen) Summer School at UCSB, on July 13, 2002

· A business Christmas party in 1999

· Two concerts at Borders on various dates

· Irregular performances at various cafés in 1999

· One piano and cello concert, at the Montclair, California Borders, in 1999

· One piano and cello concert, at the Ontario, California Spiritual Center of Friendship, in 1999

· One year of bimonthly monthly performances, as well as three concerts at the Spiritual Center of Friendship, from 1998 to 1999

· Seven months of performances, one to 3 nights per week, at Espresso Cabaret in Pasadena, from May to November of 1997

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

· Regular (often several per quarter) performance in Dr. Juhn’s studio classes, from January 2004 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

· Regular performances in Dr. Asche’s studio classes

· Ten recitals at Citrus Community College from fall 1996 to spring 2000

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

· Played various percussion instruments in three performances with the Citrus College Chamber Winds ensemble

e Two performances at the Citrus Haugh Performing Arts Center in 1998 and 1999

e One performance at the Glendora Christmas Festival in 1998

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

· Performances of repertoire for the midterm and final of a voice class, during spring quarter, 2004

Composition, Improvisation & Repertoire on Piano

· Performed in three weddings:

e August 14, 2005

e August 23, 2003

e May 10, 2003

· A friends wedding reception in September 2000

· 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

· Numerous performances at Andersen’s Restaurant, in Santa Barbara, CA, from May 2001 to January 2002, Thursday through Sunday in the summer, Friday and Saturday the rest of the year, 6 pm till closing (approximately 8:30)

· Numerous performances, one to three nights per week, at Espresso Cabaret, in Pasadena, CA, from May to November 1997.

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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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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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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

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

Reference: Family Services Coordinator: Sheryl Troy-Palladino,

(805) 893-5462

· 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

· Noteworthy Music Instruction

Group piano instructor at three elementary schools

Weekly from July 1999 " June 2000

Reference: Founder and Owner: Stan Stitgen, (714) 998-7440

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

· Sylvan Learning Center, Claremont, CA

Math tutor

February " May, 1999

(909) 621-2483

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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

· Claremont High School, Claremont, CA

Varsity Boys Swim Coach

Spring 1999

Reference: Director of Athletics: Rick Dutton, (909) 624-9055

· Webb High School, Claremont, CA

Junior Varsity Boys Water Polo Coach

Fall 1998

· The Claremont Club, Claremont, CA

e Private swim instructor

1997 " 2000

e Ducey swim school instructor

Summer 1998

e Life guard

1997 " 1998

(909) 625-6791

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Awards

Academic

· 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

· Citrus Community College

e Graduated with High Honors

e Earned Academic Achievement Awards in:

~ Social Sciences

~ Fine Arts-Art

~ Health and Physical Sciences

Swimming

· Citrus Community College

e Swim Team Member, 1997 and 1998

e Team Captain in 1997

e “Most Valuable Swimmer” in 1997 and 1998

e “All American” in 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay and 400 freestyle relay

e Broke school records and qualified for State competitions

~ 200 butterfly (1997 and 1998)

~ 400 individual medley (1998)

~ 200 medley relay (1998)

~ 200 freestyle relay (1998)

~ 400 freestyle relay (1998)

Reference: Head Swim Coach, Tim Kyle, (626) 914-8682

· Claremont High School

e Varsity swim team member (1992 " 1995)

e Team Captain (1993 " 1995)

e Most Valuable (1994 and 1995)

e Most Dedicated (1992)

e Four years of CIF qualification

e Broke school record in the 200 medley relay

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