Composition Department: School of Music: Indiana University

Composition-related Events

Fall 2008

OCTOBER

Saturday, Oct. 4, 8:00pm, Recital Hall

NME Concert

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

Student Composition Recital

NOVEMBER

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

NME Concert

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

Student Composition Recital

DECEMBER

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

Student Composition Recital

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

NME Concert

Spring 2009

FEBRUARY

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

Student Composition Recital

Saturday, Feb. 7, 8:00pm, Recital 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

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

Calls for Scores:

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

Exciting News

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 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.

ERIC NATHAN has been awarded 2nd Prize in the "2007 National Association of Composers, USA (NACUSA) Young Composer Competition" for his composition "Four Sculptures" for two trumpets.

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