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Music Theory, Composition, Music Technology; Professor of Music B.A., Cornell University; M.Mu., University of Michigan; M.S., State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D., Eastman School of Music at University of Rochester Donald Sloan is an award-winning composer of vocal, orchestra and chamber music, including the Brian Israel Young Composers Award for his Five Flights of Fancy, the Ohio Composer of the Year for 1998 by the Ohio Music Teachers Association for Or Zarua, and the Fortnightly Music Club's New Music Commission of 2005 for Four Jewish Moods . He is in his 15 th year on the faculty at Ashland University, where he is Professor of Music and director of the theory and composition programs. Sloan has two recent CDs of his music, with Tributaries and Or Zarua performed by the Cleveland Chamber Collective and Flights of Fancy performed by the Crescent Duo. In addition to his work as a composer, Mr. Sloan has also been active in the field of computer music standards. He taught previously for eight years on the faculty of Binghamton University. He is a member of BMI. Sloan grew up on Long Island, where he began guitar and music theory lessons at the age of fifteen. After composition studies at Cornell University with Karel Husa, Mr. Sloan went to France at the invitation of Nadia Boulanger to continue his studies at Fontainebleau and in Paris, also working with Henri Dutilleux and Robert Levin. Upon returning to America, he completed his formal education at the University of Michigan with William Albright, and at the Eastman School of Music with Warren Benson and Samuel Adler. In more trivial matters, he was a three-time champion on the game show Jeopardy! in 1996.
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Chair of Music Department