PO-CHUN WANG
POCHUNWANG@POCHUNWANG.COM
EXPERIENCE:
2008 – Present Composer/Sound designer, Harmonix Music System Inc.
●Sound design for Rock Band video games
2006 – 2008 Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
● Taught Piano Lab/Music Theory
2007 – 2008 Facilitator/Teaching Assistant, Boston University Distance Education
● Taught MU600 – Analytical Techniques in Tonal Music
● Taught MU766 – Jazz Arranging
2007 Concert Coordinator, Gamelan Galak Tika, MIT
● Coordinating and organizing events/concert planning
2005 – 2006 Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory
● Taught Non-Western Music to undergraduates
2004 – 2006 Music Teacher-Kansas City area local music program, Paseo high school, Liberty High School,
Liberty Middle School, Antioch Middle School, Blue Valley High School
● Conducted/assisted Orchestra rehearsals, chamber rehearsals; offered basic music literacy classes, music theory, ear training,
solfege, composition lessons
2005 Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory
● Taught Listening Lab (introduction to composition)
2004 – 2005 Music Teacher, Taiwanese Association of America Chinese School of Kansas City
● Taught Folk singing, music appreciation, music theory
2002 Music Teacher, Hsiao-Kang District Middle School, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
● Taught summer programs; introduced film scoring, basic music theory and music appreciatio
EDUCATION:
2004 – 2009 DMA in Music-Composition, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory
● Studied with Chen-Yi, Zhou-Long, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy; Piano with Alice Demske
2002 – 2004 MM in Music Composition, Boston University
● Studied with Lukas Foss & Steven Weight
1999 – 2002 BM in Music Composition, Berklee College of Music
● Studied with Marti Epstein & John Bavicchi
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2003 Accent 03/Music 03 Composition Competition, First prize
2003 IAWM, Ellen Taaffe Zwillich Prize
2003 Invited as fellow composer to University of California, Davis summer festival
2002 Boston Symphony Hall Young composer award
REFERENCES:
Available upon request