Don Freund’s visit to Brazil in May included lectures, master classes and recitals at the National Musicology Symposium in Pirenópolis, the Colloquium of Early Music in Goiás, and at the State University of Ceara in Fortaleza. Included were Brazilian premieres of Daydream for Recorder, Songs without Words for clarinet and piano, and seven Piano Preludes,… Read more »
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Update from faculty composer Claude Baker
In September 2012, a commercial recording of four orchestral works by Claude Baker was released on the Naxos label (8.559642). Included on the disc are The Glass Bead Game, Awaking the Winds, Shadows: Four Dirge-Nocturnes, and The Mystic Trumpeter. The pieces are performed by the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin and Hans Vonk…. Read more »
Melody Eötvös selected for 2013 PARMA Anthology of Music
Melody Eötvös’s string quartet, Olber’s Dance in the Dark, has been selected as one of the 10 winners in the PARMA Student Composer Competition. Her piece, selected from hundreds of other works by the judging panel, will be included in the 2013 PARMA Anthology of Music.
Vicente Avella (BM ’95) Receives Global Music “Award of Excellence”
The Global Music Awards recently granted All the Days of My Life an “Award of Excellence” for instrumental performance solo, an “Award of Merit” for album and an “Award of Merit” for album cover/art/graphics. All the Days of My Life, Avella’s first album release, features original arrangements of timeless wedding classics, embracing both traditional and… Read more »
Sang Mi Ahn wins the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize
Congratulations to Sang Mi Ahn, who won the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize at the 2013 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music with her piece “Dirge for the Earth Elements.”
Sam Wells and Ben Taylor featured at Fulcrim Point Discoveries Series
On Monday, July 15, the Fulcrum Point Discoveries Series of new works by young and emerging American composers will be presented at the Merit School of Music. The workshop will feature Jacobs composer/trumpeter Sam Wells as guest artist, performing three new works for trumpet and electronics, including one by doctoral composition student Ben Taylor. Fulcrum Point Discoveries is… Read more »
Sang Mi Ahn’s composition to be performed at ICMC 2013
Sang Mi Ahn’s “Convergence” (for alto saxophone and electronics) was accepted for performance at the 2013 International Computer Music Conference in Perth, Western Australia, August 11-17.
2013 Composition Department prizes announced
The faculty of the Jacobs School of Music Composition Department is pleased to announce results for the following annual internal competitions. 2013 DEAN’S PRIZE COMPOSITION COMPETITION Category A (Orchestra or Wind Ensemble, $500 prize): Elliott Bark, YOOK-I-O, for orchestra Category B (Chamber/Ensemble, $1000 prize and commission for a new work to be premiered by the… Read more »
IU composers excel in Third International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest
IU Jacobs School of Music composition students, alumni and faculty works for wind ensemble excelled at this year’s Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. Four IU-related winners, out of nine awards total, include current student Benjamin Taylor for his work Whiz-bang, alumna Joni Greene for her work Cameron’s Dream, alumnus Matthew Peterson for his work Reflections on… Read more »
Alumnus Eric Nathan wins 2013 Rome Prize
Eric Nathan, MM ’08, was one of two composers named musical composition winner in the annual Rome Prize competition during a formal ceremony at the Metropolitan Club in New York City on April 18, 2013. Nathan writes, “My Rome Prize project proposal is titled Multitude, Solitude, which is, in short, to compose two new works related… Read more »