James McCullough
James McCullough (b. 1939) was educated as a Composer, Curriculum Specialist, and School Librarian. His training was at the Virginia State University with Dr. Undine Smith Moore, Northeastern University in English Literature and Curriculum Education (1974-1977), and at the New England Conservatory with Professor Daniel Pinkham (Composition) and Maestro Frederick Jagel (Voice).
To support himself as a composer, he worked for 20 years at the Boston State College (now the University of Massachusetts Boston campus) as Head of the Curriculum Materials Research and Resource Center.Â
As their Literature and Curriculum Materials Specialist, he also taught the undergraduate and graduate courses in Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
Returning full-time to music, he later held a professional position at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Then, for five years he served as the Senor Arts Administrator of the Music, Literature, and Folk Life programs at the Massachusetts Council for the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences (now the Massachusetts Cultural Council).
During his long career he was tenor soloist, composer-in-residence at the Old South Church, Boston (1971-1982), and Literature Consultant to the Adult Literacy Resource Institute, Boston (1990-1995).
He has been a member on the music theater and opera panel at the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1992; a performer and Chorus Board member of the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston, 1970-1973; and was on the Board of Directors at the Boston Strand Theatre, 1995-1998.
Also, he was Stage Director at the now defunct Cambridge Opera Company, 1965-1967. To date, his compositions are listed in “The Boston Composers Project,” which was published by the MIT Press, (1986).
In the Boston area he has been a tenor soloist and his compositions have been performed and praised locally and nationally. His works have also been performed in Europe and in Spain.
For his work in Composition and the Arts, he was awarded the Pride in Performance Award by the Governor of Massachusetts, Paul Cellucci, in 1998.
James McCullough is also a poet, fiction writer, actor, and avid book and CD/BLU RAY collector.
Now retired, he has amassed an opera, vocal/chamber music collection of over nine thousand items that he catalogs and listens to at his homes in Massachusetts and Virginia.
Finally, his other music is published by E. C. Schirmer and Galaxy Music Corporation. He is still composing.
To support himself as a composer, he worked for 20 years at the Boston State College (now the University of Massachusetts Boston campus) as Head of the Curriculum Materials Research and Resource Center.Â
As their Literature and Curriculum Materials Specialist, he also taught the undergraduate and graduate courses in Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
Returning full-time to music, he later held a professional position at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Then, for five years he served as the Senor Arts Administrator of the Music, Literature, and Folk Life programs at the Massachusetts Council for the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences (now the Massachusetts Cultural Council).
During his long career he was tenor soloist, composer-in-residence at the Old South Church, Boston (1971-1982), and Literature Consultant to the Adult Literacy Resource Institute, Boston (1990-1995).
He has been a member on the music theater and opera panel at the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC, 1992; a performer and Chorus Board member of the Handel & Haydn Society, Boston, 1970-1973; and was on the Board of Directors at the Boston Strand Theatre, 1995-1998.
Also, he was Stage Director at the now defunct Cambridge Opera Company, 1965-1967. To date, his compositions are listed in “The Boston Composers Project,” which was published by the MIT Press, (1986).
In the Boston area he has been a tenor soloist and his compositions have been performed and praised locally and nationally. His works have also been performed in Europe and in Spain.
For his work in Composition and the Arts, he was awarded the Pride in Performance Award by the Governor of Massachusetts, Paul Cellucci, in 1998.
James McCullough is also a poet, fiction writer, actor, and avid book and CD/BLU RAY collector.
Now retired, he has amassed an opera, vocal/chamber music collection of over nine thousand items that he catalogs and listens to at his homes in Massachusetts and Virginia.
Finally, his other music is published by E. C. Schirmer and Galaxy Music Corporation. He is still composing.