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| Seth is a D.M.A. student in Choral Conducting at the University of Southern California, where he studies with Jo-Michael Scheibe, Morten Lauridsen, Nick Strimple, and Magen Solomon. Houston also holds a M.M. in Choral Conducting from the University of Colorado and a B.Mus. in composition from Oberlin, and directed high school and middle school choirs for eight years in New Hampshire, California, and Colorado. | |
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| Seth's composition Snowflakes, for SATB chorus with flute, cello, and piano will be published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing later this year. | |
| Seth's composition Let Peace Begin with Me won the USC Children's Composition Competition and will be premiered at the USC Neighborhood Children's Choir Festival on March 11. | |
| Seth presented a paper entitled "Restoring Self through an Exotic Other: Orientalism and the Poetic in Robert Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri" at the Pacific Southwest Chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society on February 13. | |
| Seth's composition Big Sky was performed by the Wisconsin Little Ten All-Conference Honors Choir, conducted by Randall Swiggum, on February 12. | |
| Seth's composition Emerald Stream was performed in seventeen performances by the Christmas Revels (Cambridge, MA) in December 2009. | |
| Seth's composition Barnet was recorded by Prairie Harmony on their 2009 CD Prairie Harmony of Southeast Iowa. | |
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