Composition-related Events

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Fall 2008

 

OCTOBER

* Thursday, Oct. 9, 8:00pm, Recital Hall
KyungA Ahn - Doctoral Recital

 

Oct 10-11, 8:00pm, Musical Arts Center
Fall Ballet: Sweet Fields, Four Temperaments, Endless Night
Composers: Willam Billings, Phillip Glass, Paul Hindemith
Choreographers: George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Michael Vernon
Conductors: Andy Moran, Susan Swaney

 

Sunday, Oct. 12, 1:00pm, Recital Hall

Student Recital

Premieres of orchestral works by Gabriel Lubell, Joshua Groffman, and Jonathan Graybill

 

Tuesday, Oct. 14, 8:00pm, Musical Arts Center
Symphonic and Concert Bands
Paul W. Popiel and Jeffrey D. Gershman, Conductors
Joey Tartell, trumpet; Jonathan Whitaker, trombone
Walczyk: Concerto Gaucho (world première); Joey Tartell, trumpet

Joni Greene, Moonscape Awakening

 

* Thursday, Oct. 16, 8:00pm, Recital Hall

Kang-Gyu Lee - Doctoral Recital

 

* Tuesday, Oct. 21, 8:00pm, Recital Hall

Student Composition Recital

 

NOVEMBER

* Saturday, Nov. 1, 8:00pm, Recital Hall

NME Concert

HK Gruber, Frankenstein!!

Craig Walsh, Bugaboo

Scott Wheeler, City of Shadows

 

* Sunday, Nov. 2, 1:00pm, Ford Hall

Laura Kramer - Masters Recital

 

* Tuesday, Nov. 4, 8:00pm, Recital Hall

Student Composition Recital

 

* Saturday, Nov. 8, 4:00pm, Recital Hall

Martin McClellan - Doctoral Recital

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 7:00pm, Recital Hall
University Singers
Norman Lincoln Hanks (alumnus), Dixit Dominus for SATB choir, percussion and two pianos

* Friday, Nov. 21, 7:00pm, Recital Hall
Jonathan Graybill - Masters Recital

 

DECEMBER

* Tuesday, Dec. 2, 8:00pm, Recital Hall

Student Composition Recital

 

* Saturday, Dec. 6 , 8:00pm, Recital Hall

NME Concert

Elliott Carter, Birthday Flourish, Reflexions, Mosaic
Michael Gandolfi, Geppeto's Workshop
Oliver Messiaen, Fantasie, La Merle Noir, Piece pour piano et quatuor a cordes

Sunday, Dec. 7, 2:00pm, Sweeney Hall

Computer Music and Video Recital

Monday, Dec. 8, 8:30pm, MAC 040

Student Recital

 

 

Spring 2009

 

FEBRUARY

* Tuesday, Feb. 3, 8:00pm, Recital Hall

Student Composition Recital

 

* Saturday, Feb. 7, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

NME Concert

 

 

MARCH

* Tuesday, Mar. 3, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

Student Composition Recital

 

* Saturday, Mar. 7, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

NME Concert

 

* Tuesday, Mar. 24, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

Student Composition Recital

 

Sunday, March 29, 4:00pm, Auer Hall

Pro Arte - Harbison premier

John Poole, Conductor

 

APRIL

 

* Tuesday, April 14, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

Student Composition Recital

 

* Tuesday, Apr. 21 , 8:00pm, Auer Hall

NME Concert

 

* Friday, April 24, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

Student Composition Recital

 

 

Note: All composition majors, minors, and electives are required to attend all concerts marked with an asterisk (*). All other listed concerts are simply to keep you informed of events you might wish to attend. See Composition Department Attendance Policy at: www.music.indiana.edu/som/composition/recattendpol.shtml.

For a complete listing of all musical events at the IU School of Music, visit the on-line Prelude at: www.music.indiana.edu/publicity/prelude/index.html.

Announcements

Additions and corrections: anhoang@indiana.edu

M.M. Comprehensive Examination in Composition
Sunday, Nov. 9, 1:00-3:00 p.m. (Oct. 31 deadline to let Prof. Dzubay know you will take exam)
M271 (Music Library Seminar Room)

Calls for Scores:

Kids Compose
Deadline: Noon, Friday, October 10, 2008

NME Reading - Fall 2008
Deadline: Noon, Monday, October 27, 2008

Midwest Composers Symposium - Chamber Works
Deadline: Noon, Saturday, November 1, 2008

MAYO Composition Competition
Deadline: Midnight, Saturday, November 1, 2008

Orchestra Reading - Fall 2008

Recent News

Clint Needham received the 2008 Young Composers' Award from Symphony in C (formerly the Haddonfield Symphony). The winning work, "Radiant Nation," will be performed at the Rutgers Center for the Arts in Camden, NJ on December 13 by Symphony in C with Rossen Milanov conducting.

KyungA Ahn's piece, Sailing to the Deep Blue Sea for 9 Brass Players, was awarded an
Excellence Composition Award by IBCMF (International Brass Chamber Music Festival).

Laminar Flow for solo wind by GABRIEL LUBELL has been chosen by Levande Musik in Sweden for performance in the famous glass elevator of the Gothia Hotel in Gothenburg Sweden.  Along with 10 other 30-second solo pieces by composers from around the world, it will be played on Sep. 25-28 2008 by live musicians during the Göteborg International Book fair, which is the largest cultural event of the Nordic region.

CLINT NEEDHAM received the 2008 Heckscher Composition Prize from Ithaca College for his chamber work "Axioms". Recent winning composers of this prize include Jennifer Higdon and Indiana University's Professor of Computer Music Jeffrey Hass.  In addition to the prize the Ithaca College School of Music New Music Ensemble will give a performance of "Axioms" on April 14, 2009.

Jeff Stanek was awarded a fellowship by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), an artists' community located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.  He will be in residence there in November, 2008 along with around 20 other fellows in the visual arts, writing, and music.

MAX GRAFE's Fresco for orchestra is going to be performed by the Montana State University at Bozeman's orchestra on their new music concert in February 2009.

KANG-GYU LEE's Scenes for flute and piano was selected by Juventas New Music Ensemble for their 2008-2009 call for scores and will be performed by them during the weekend of December 5, 2008.

MATTHEW PETERSON received the Fulbright Award and will be a visiting composer at the Gotlandstonsättarskola (Gotland Composer School, Visby, Gotland, Sweden), where he will write a new  chamber opera for performances in May 2009 and spring 2010. 

SARAH GIBSON won the 2008 Victor Herbert ASCAP Young Composers Award for her piece "Let Me Go" for Solo Violin and Choir.

JEFF STANEK was named the winner of the Victor Herbert ASCAP Young Composers Award from
the National Federation of Music Clubs for his solo piano piece entitled "Turning."

MARTIN MCCLELLAN received 2nd place in the Emil and  Ruth Beyer Competition - National Federation of Music Clubs, for his Sonata for Piano, No. 2.

BRIAN CIACH has won first prize in the piano solo division of the National Federation of
Music Clubs Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Awards for his Piano Sonata No. 2.

JEFF STANEK was awarded the ASCAP Foundation Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to study at Tanglewood this summer.  The Tanglewood Music Center will present performances of his song cycle "Summer Whimsy" as well as two newly-written works.

ERIC NATHAN was awarded the William Schuman Prize in the 56th Annual
BMI Student Composer Awards. Press release:
http://www.bmi.com/foundation/news/56th_annual_bmi_student_composer_award_winners_announced/

YOOMI PAICK has won the Libby Larsen Prize, 2008 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) with her piece "Crossover."

KYUNG A AHN (with her piece "Midnight Wind for chamber orchestra") has been selected to be among the 6 finalists by the Miami ISCM Section for the World New Music Days - this
time being held in Sweden in 2009.