Joseph Downing  (jdowning@syr.edu)
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Education: Bachelor of Music (Composition), Brigham Young University, 1979
           ARCCO, (w/Healey Willan Award for top national grade), 1980
           FRCCO, (Healey Willan Award), 1981
           Master of Music (Composition), Northwestern University, 1983
           Doctor of Music (Composition), Northwestern University, 1985
 
Employment: Syracuse University, 1985 (currently Associate Professor, Chair of
            Theory, Composition and History)
            Director of Music, First Presbyterian Church, Syracuse 1986-1991
              (oversaw installation of Karl Wilhelm 3/39 organ, 1991)
            Director of Music, Irving Park Methodist Church, Chicago 1981-1985
 
Active performer and composer.  Compositions include _Emmaus_, a chancel
opera commissioned for the 1991 Region I and II AGO convention, numerous
anthems, 12 Partitas for various instruments, Symphony for Winds and
Percussion (with over six hundred performances), etc.
 
Performance specialty is continuo (yes, I really can read scores and
clefs and figured bass).  Currently play harpsichord and organ with
Capitol Chamber Artists, Albany, New York.