Composition-related Events

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APRIL

 

* Wednesday, April 16, 8:30pm, Recital Hall

Senior Recital - Ashleigh Nero

 

* Thursday, April 17, 8:00pm, Auer Hall
New Music Ensemble - Alan Pierson, Director/Conductor

Benjamin Bolter, Conductor

Ferris Allen, Baritone Voice

Freund: Soft Cells

Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony

Needham: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry - Premiere

John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony

 

Saturday, April 19, 4:00pm

Sunday, April 20, 4:00pm

Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E Kirkwood

2008 Hammer and Nail Concert

Featuring short, new, collaborative works for music and dance by Gagliardo, Grafe, Oliveiro, Rorabaugh, Sokol, Tholenar-Maples, Sment, Benson, Jaquith, Werfelmann, Graybill, Paick, Stanek, Lubell, Smith, Nathan, Peterson, and Farrell.

Admission Free.

 

Saturday, April 19, 5:00pm, Recital Hall

The Kuttner Quartet

Works performed include Beethoven, Brahms and the premiere of Sokol's Amidst Asphodel Meadows.

 

Sunday, April 20 , 8:00pm, Auer Hall
Contemporary Vocal Ensemble

 

Saturday, April 26, 7:00pm, School of Fine Arts Gallery
New Music at the SoFA Gallery
Featuring guest composer Gabriela Ortiz.

Also featuring music by William F. Bryant, David E. Farrell, Ben S. Jacob, Eric Knechtges, Eric Nathan, and Jeff Stanek. 

Admission Free. Reception to follow.

 

* Sunday, April 27, 2:00pm, Sweeney Hall

Computer Music and Video Recital
Center for Electronic and Computer Music

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

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Calls for Scores:

NME Reading - Spring 2008 - Deadline:  Noon Friday, April 11

 

Exciting News

Winners of Dean's Prizes and Joshi Commission 2008:
Category A (Orchestra):  DAVID SCHNEIDER: Automation
Category B (Chamber): ERIC NATHAN: Onement
Georgina Joshi Composition Commission Award: ADAM HAWS: Dada Gedichte
Category C (Undergraduate): JOHN LESZCZYNSKI: Obsidian Butterfly
Category D (Electronic): MARK OLIVEIRO: A Cycle of Fallacy

BRIAN CIACH has received the Presser Music Award here at IU! This award is to support advanced education and career of music students of enormous talent who have the potential to make a distinguished contribution to the field of music.
http://www.music.indiana.edu/apps/scholarship/index.php?id=115

ERIC NATHAN has been awarded a 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his piece "Onement" for chamber ensemble.
http://www.ascap.com/press/2008/0328_mortongould.aspx

WILLIAM F. BRYANT has won second place-Level II in the Young Composers Competition sponsored by Arden and Harry Fisher! This is a competition sponsored by the Webster University Community Music School in St. Louis, Missouri. His piece, "An Alpinian Morning" for wind sextet, will be performed on May 9th by the faculty at Webster University Music School.
http://www.webster.edu/cms/programs/composers.shtml