Composition-related Events

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NOVEMBER

* Tuesday, Nov. 24, 8:00pm, Auer Hall
MASTERS RECITAL- Ryan Chase

 

 

DECEMBER

 

* Tuesday, Dec. 1, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

Thursday, Dec. 3, 4:00pm, MAC040(?)
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Arthur Fagen
DISSERTATION PERFORMANCES:
Keun Hyoung Lee, "Ritual Seasons"
Jason Haney, Symphony No. 1

 

* Thursday, Dec. 3, 8:00pm, Auer Hall
NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE - David Dzubay / Don Freund

Joseph Klein, Occam's Razor

P.Q. Phan, Songs of Solitude

Atar Arad, Listen

Don Freund, Test of Time

 

Monday, Dec. 7, 7:00pm, MAC 036
K100 COMPOSITION RECITAL

Works by students in K100 lessons

 

JANUARY

 

* Saturday, Jan. 23, 2pm, Sweeney Hall

COMPUTER MUSIC RECITAL

 

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 10:00am, MAC
CONCERT ORCHESTRA - Kevin Noe

Performances from the Kids Compose program, Brendan Faegre and Adam Haws, composers

 

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 8:00pm, MAC
CONCERT ORCHESTRA - Kevin Noe
Marian Harrison, Out of Kilter: Sounding Scenes from Black America (dissertation, premiere)

 

* Saturday, Jan. 30, 8pm, Auer Hall

SENIOR RECITAL - Joyce Vickery

 

 

FEBRUARY

 

* Tuesday, Feb. 2, 8:00pm, Auer Hall

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

* Saturday, Feb. 6, 8:00pm, Auer Hall
NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE - David Dzubay

Hans Abrahamsen, Winternacht

Schoenberg/Abrahamsen, Vier Stücke

Teddy Niedermaier, Upon this Rock

Aaron Travers, Las Guitarras Azules

 

* Sunday, Feb. 7, 2:00pm, Auer Hall
MASTERS RECITAL- Mark Oliveiro

 

* Sunday, Feb. 7, 5:00pm, Ford Hall
MASTERS RECITAL- Chappell Kingsland

 

Wednesday Feb. 10, 10:00am, MAC

Symphonic/Concert Band - Gershman/Popiel

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

 

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

 

 

MARCH

 

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

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

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

 

Thursday, Mar. 25, 4:00pm, MAC040(?)
CONCERT ORCHESTRA - Arthur Fagen
DISSERTATION PERFORMANCES:
In-Sil Yoo, "The Calling"
Michael Johanson, "The Garden of Earthly Delights"

 

 

APRIL

 

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

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

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

STUDENT COMPOSITION RECITAL

 

Wednesday, Apr. 12 - Friday, Apr. 16, Time and Location TBA
HAMMER & NAIL

 

* 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

NME Readings - open call for fall 2009 (readings scheduled ad hoc)

MAYO Composition Competition - deadline: Nov. 7

Announcements

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RECENT NEWS- CURRENT STUDENTS

Daniel Seong Hyeon Lee's new work Break Dance!, written for the Amici Chamber Ensemble, will be premiered by the trio on November 1st at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Canada.

Gordon Williamson's work Two Inuit Folk Songs was performed by the Swedish Radio Choir under the direction of Cecilia Rydinger Alin at the 2009 ISCM World New Music Days Festival in Visby, Sweden. The performance was broadcast live nationally on Swedish Radio.

Jeremy Podgursky was selected for the ACO Colorado Symphony Orchestra Earshot readings and the Cal State Northridge prize.

Diana Syrse has been selected for participation in AH!, an "opera no-opera" composed and performerd by ten composers from all around the world directed by David Rosenboom and based on the script of Martin Bellen.  The work premieres at Redcat in LA Sept. 16-18, 2009.

Clint Needham's wind ensemble work Legacies was recently awarded 1st Prize in the 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. In addition to the prize, Clint has received a publishing contract from Manhattan Beach Music.

Joni Greene was awarded third prize for her work Moonscape Awakening in the 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. In addition to the prize, Manhattan Beach has offered publication.

Kids Compose Recordings Posted

Elliott Bark's Winter Sketches was awarded first place in the Region V (East) of the 2009 SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission.

Brendan Faegre's Tihai for percussion quartet was selected for the 57th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Press Release

Sang Mi Ahn's Psalm 30 and KyungA Ahn's Midnight Wind have received honorable mention for consideration for the Libby Larsen Prize at 2009 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM).

Pictures from Hammer and Nail 2009

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.

Doctoral composition student, Clint Needham, has recently signed with publisher Theodore Presser Company. Nine of his works are currently available from the company with several other contracts already accepted for future works. One of America's oldest music publishers, Theodore Presser also publishes the catalogs of Charles Ives, Steven Stucky, George Tsontakis, Chen Yi, and Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, among numerous others. More information can be found at http://www.presser.com/News/

‘Kids Compose’ and listen eagerly to music compositions
by Peter Jacobi, Herald Times Online

Clint Needham received a 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for his work Chamber Symphony.

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RECENT NEWS: ALUMNI

Marjorie Rusche's Nightwatch for solo piano has been selected for programming on the 12th London New Wind Festival and Women in Music UK Joint Event, Friday, November 6th, Regent Hall, London, England, performed by Robert Coleridge.

Doug Opel (DM, 2002) has been selected as the 2009 Definiens Project Composition Commission Competition winner.

Eric Nathan (MM, 2008) recently had works performed by the University of Maryland Wind Ensemble (Autumn Triptych) and at the Wellesley Composer's Conference (Three Sculpture Meditaions).

Stacy Garrop's String Quartet No. 3: Gaia (2008) will be performed by the Biava Quartet in concert at Roosevelt University's Ganz Hall on October 7, 2009.

Chia Patino has been named Executive/Artistic Director of the Teatro Nacional Sucre, the national theater in Quito, Ecuador.

John Supko (BM, 2002) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Composition at Duke University in Durham, NC.

Miguel Roig-Francolí (MM, Composition, 1985; Ph.D., Music Theory, 1990) is the recipient of the University of Cincinnati’s 2009 George Rieveschl Jr. Award for Creative and/or Scholarly Works. Roig-Francolí is a Professor of Music Theory at UC’s College-Conservatory of Music. His second textbook, Understanding Post-Tonal Music (McGraw-Hill, 2008), is currently being translated into Chinese for 2010 publication in China. His recent choral/orchestral compositions, Dona eis requiem (In Memory of the Innocent Victims of War and Terror), Antiphon and Psalms for the Victims of Genocide, and Missa pro pace, have been widely performed in Spain and the United States. Roig-Francolí lives in Cincinnati with his wife, violinist Jennifer (Wion) Roig-Francolí (BM, Violin, 1990) and their two children.
 
Centaur Records recently released an album, entitled "Starlit,"  of some of Stephen Suber’s works.   http://www.centaurrecords.com (search "Suber").  The album includes "Cumulus over Tangipahoa," "Soleil" (32-part a  capella choral work), "Dithyramb", "Enchantments: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra", "Starlit," and "Upon the Bank at Early Dawn."

John Paul’s string trio Chara was performed by the new music group Fear No Music at Oregon’s first Day of Culture in October. The group will also premier Paul’s score to FW Murnau’s 1930 silent film City Girl, which will be shown at the Oregon Sesquicentennial Film Festival in May.  Paul is a recipient of a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission.