Composition-related Events

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FEBRUARY

Wednesday Feb. 10, 10:00am, MAC

Symphonic/Concert Band - Gershman/Popiel

Performances from the Kids Compose program, Melody Eötvös and Max Grafe, composers

 

* Wednesday, Feb. 10, 8:00pm, Auer Hall
SENIOR RECITAL- David Benson

 

* Saturday, Feb. 13, 4:00pm, Auer Hall
SENIOR RECITAL- Colin DeJong

 

Tuesday, Feb. 16, 8:00pm, MAC

Wind Ensemble - Stephen W. Pratt

PQ Phan, Festivities

 

* Tuesday, Feb. 16, 8:00pm, Auer Hall
DOCTORAL RECITAL- Brian Ciach

 

Sunday, Feb. 21, 4:00pm, Auer Hall

FACULTY RECITAL - PQ Phan

Solitary Reminiscence - guitar concerto

Enlightenment - percussion concerto

Works by Visiting Scholar Jin-Soo Kim

 

 

MARCH

 

* Tuesday, Mar. 2, 8:30pm, Recital Hall

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

Saturday, Mar. 6, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

FACULTY RECITAL - Don Freund

 

Monday, Mar. 8, 7:00pm, Sweeney Hall

GUEST COMPOSER LECTURE - Paul Chihara

 

* Tuesday, Mar. 9, 8:00pm, Auer Hall
NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE - David Dzubay

 

* Thursday, Mar. 11, 8:30pm, Recital Hall
DOCTORAL RECITAL - Natalie Williams

 

Thursday, Mar. 25, 5:00pm, MAC040(?)
CONCERT ORCHESTRA - Arthur Fagen
DISSERTATION PERFORMANCES:
In-Sil Yoo, "The Calling"
Michael Johanson, "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

 

* Sunday, Mar. 28, 3:00pm, Recital Hall
DOCTORAL RECITAL - Jonathan Sokol

 

* Tuesday, Mar. 30, 7:00pm, Recital Hall
DOCTORAL RECITAL - Justin Grossman

 

 

APRIL

 

* Thursday, Apr. 1, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

* Wednesday, Apr. 7, 7:00pm, Recital Hall
DOCTORAL RECITAL- Adam Haws

 

* Tuesday, Apr. 13, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

* Wednesday, Apr. 14, 7:00pm, Recital Hall

MASTERS RECITAL - Gavin Duffy

 

Thursday, Apr. 15, 6:30pm, Buskirk-Chumley Theater
HAMMER & NAIL - New collaborative works for dance by IU student composers (Program A)

 

Thursday, Apr. 15, 8:30pm, Buskirk-Chumley Theater
HAMMER & NAIL - New collaborative works for dance by IU student composers (Program B)

 

Friday, Apr. 16, 6:30pm, Buskirk-Chumley Theater
HAMMER & NAIL - New collaborative works for dance by IU student composers (Program A)

 

Friday, Apr. 16, 8:30pm, Buskirk-Chumley Theater
HAMMER & NAIL - New collaborative works for dance by IU student composers (Program B)

 

* Tuesday, Apr. 20, 8:00pm, Auer Hall
NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE - David Dzubay

 

* Friday, Apr. 23, 8:30pm, Recital Hall

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

* Saturday, Apr. 24, 2pm, Sweeney Hall

COMPUTER MUSIC 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.

For a complete listing of all musical events at the IU School of Music, visit the on-line Prelude.

Calls for Scores

Dean's Prize - deadline: noon, March 22

Georgina Joshi Composition Commission Prize - deadline: noon, March 22

NME Readings - open call for spring 2010 (readings scheduled ad hoc)

Announcements

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RECENT NEWS - CURRENT STUDENTS

Jonathan Sokol's Twice the Rising Sun was chosen by MAYO (Musical Arts Youth Orchestra) in their 2nd Annual Composition Contest. The premiere is slated for Sunday, May 2 at 3pm at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

Ezra Donner's Rust Belt for string quartet has been selected by the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium program committee as a finalist for programming consideration in the new music concert at this year's annual meeting. The concert will take place at the University of Chicago on April 17th.

Clint Needham has been selected as a finalist for the 2010 Pacific Symphony Orchestra Competition. The three finalists will have works performed by the Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble on March 14 at Segerstorm Concert Hall.

Clint Needham's Radiant Nation for wind ensemble will be performed on Feb. 4 at the University of Alabama, Huntsville as part of the 2010 New Music Festival featuring composer Joseph Schwantner.

Ryan Chase's the filaments of dance will be performed by the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet at the 2010 Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez in Mexico City, May 23 - June 6, 2010.

Clint Needham has been awarded Special Distincion by the jury for this year's ASACP Nissim Prize.

Evan Rees' Sonata in One Movement for clarinet and piano will be performed on Feb. 11th at the 2010 Ball State New Music Festival.

Max Grafe's Oak Dances for two bassoons will be performed at the 2010 International Double Reed Society convention at the University of Oklahoma.

Sang Mi Ahn's Two Pieces for Violin, and Piano has been awarded second prize at the Sixth International Musical Composition Contest held by the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport.

Gabriel Lubell's Archie Speaks for voice, clarinet, cello, and piano has been programmed on the Ball State New Music Festival concerts (Feb. 11-13). His He guards the vision of the sunset sky for alto saxophone and string quartet will be performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance conference on March 6th in Athens, Georgia.

Sang Mi Ahn's Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano will be performed by Trio Haan at Recital Hall, Seoul Arts Center in Seoul, South Korea on April 8, 2010.

Nicole DiPaolo's viola duo Three Episodes has been selected for performance on the 40th annual Festival of New Music at Ball State. The dates of this year's festival are Feb. 11-13, 2010.

Diana Syrse was selected to be the resident composer of the project "Cantaré" held by VocalEssence and Phillip Brunelle. Four choral pieces will be presented in Minneapolis in the Basilica in May, 2010.

Gordon Williamson has been invited to do a four month residency at the International Studios at Denkmalschmiede Höfgen in Grimma, Germany.

Nicole DiPaolo's song cycle Reflections and Musings will be premiered by soprano Kirsten Kunkie and pianist Jerico Vasquez at Brooks Chapel at Shorter College, GA on January 25, 2010.

Brendan Faegre's work The Immortals was chosen for performance at the 2010 SCI Student National Convention at Marshall University, March 5-6. In addition, Brendan's piano trio The Circular Ruins was selected for performance at the SCI Region VIII Conference at the University of Puget Sound, March 5-6.

Joni Green was awarded the Damien Top Prize for her work Lucretia in this year's ASCAP/Lotte Lehmann Art Song Competition. The Damien Prize is a commission to set a poem by Andrée Brunin to be premiered at the 2010 Albert Roussel International Festival in France.

2009 "DEAN'S PRIZE " COMPOSITION COMPETITION- Winners
Category A (Orchestra, $500 prize):
     Austin Jaquith, Blaze of Autumn (Five Images from Fall)
Category B (Chamber, $1000 prize and commission for a new work to be premiered by NME in 2009-2010):
     Teddy Niedermaier, Liturgies (submitted work)
Category C (Undergraduate, $300 prize):
     Max Tholenaar-Maples, Me and the Modern World
Category D (Electronic, $300 prize):
     Adam Haws, Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit

2009 GEORGINA JOSHI COMPOSITION COMMISSION PRIZE ($1000 prize and commission for a new work for voice and ensemble to be premiered by NME in 2009-2010):
Eric Lindsay, The Real Mother Goose (submitted work)

2009 MRS. HONG PHAM MEMORIAL RECOGNITION AWARD FOR NEW MUSIC PERFORMANCE ($500 prize):
Eric Allen, cello
The Mrs. Hong Pham Memorial Recognition Award for New Music Performance is an annual prize awarded by the composition department to the performer who, through collaboration and performance, made the most significant overall contribution to the presentation of new music by student composers in the Jacobs School of Music.

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RECENT NEWS: ALUMNI

Martin Kennedy (MM '02) has been awarded the $5000 ASCAP Nissim Prize. Mathew Peterson (MM '08) was also awarded Special Distinction by the jury.

Laura Kramer's Different Sorts (2008), duo for violin and guitar, was awarded honorable mention in the 2009 Margaret Blackburn Biennial Composition Competition by the Pittsburg Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha lota.

Laura Kramer's Warped (2007-08) for alto saxophone and electronics was selected for performance at the 2010 New Music Festival at Western Illinois Unversity, Macomb, IL, March 8-10, 2010.

Robert Manthey (BM, 1999) recently had a performance of his Music for Rocks and Clouds for 14 instruments by the Ives Ensemble on December 19th, 2009 in Amsterdam at the Muziekgebouw aan't IJ.

Laura Kramer's Tranquil InDensity (2007) for electronics was selected for performance at the 2010 SEAMUS National Conference at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, April 8-10, 2010.

Jason Bahr (DM, 2003) was commissioned by the Choral Arts of Springfield (OH) to write a work for choir, organ, brass quintet, and timpani. The work, Run, Shepherds, Run, was premiered on Nov. 15.

Mischa Zupko (DM, 2003) was recently named the winner of the Loudoun Symphony Orchestra's American Composer Competition. In addition to receiving a monetary award, Zupko's work will be performed by the Loudoun Symphony in March, 2010.