Keith Fitch (BM ’89, MM ’92, DM ’95) currently heads the composition department at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he also directs the CIM New Music Ensemble. He has recently completed works for the celebrated guitar-harp duo of Jason Vieaux and Yolanda Kondonassis and the violinist (and Indiana University alumna), Lina Bahn, as well… Read more »
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Update from Alumni composer Natalie Williams (DM ’11)
Natalie Williams (DM ’11) has been awarded a residency place at the Master Artists in Residency program (Atlantic Center for the Arts), in Florida during May, working with composer, Judith Shatin. She will be working on two commissioned orchestral pieces during the residency. A new chamber piece of Williams is being premiered in Germany (Hannover)… Read more »
Composer Joan Tower “Five Friends” residency includes lecture today and performance of works with New Music Ensemble, Friday
Joan Tower, widely regarded as one of the most important American composers living today, will spend this week at the IU Jacobs School of Music, offering a lecture Wednesday April 17, group lessons to composition students and will be the featured composer in the New Music Ensemble concert, Friday April 19. The residency is part… Read more »
Recent performances of Ryan Chase
On April 2, the Contemporaneous ensemble with Ariadne Greif premiered Chase’s “Carroll Madrigals”, for soprano and ensemble, commissioned by Contemporaneous for the Fordham Voices Up! Festival. IU Alumnus Colin Sorgi premieres “Arcade Glitch”, for violin and tape, commissioned by Colin, on April 5th, and on April 9th Kay Stern, concertmaster of the San Francisco Opera… Read more »
J. Mark Scearce (DM 93) Commissioned by the Center for Contemporary Opera
Through a grant from the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Opera has commissioned an opera, Falling Angel by Jacobs School alumnus J. Mark Scearce with libretto from Lucy Thurber based on the classic novel by William Hjorstberg. Falling Angel will receive its world premiere by the Center for Contemporary Opera in the… Read more »
Tim Miller’s FIRU performed at NASA
Jacobs School student Tim Miller’s saxophone piece FIRU was performed at the NASA (North American Saxophone Alliance) Region 7 conference on March 15th. The performance was held at Middle Tennessee State University.
Composition alumnus Juan Antonio Cuellar, president of Batuta foundation in Colombia, visits the Jacobs School April 11-13
Alumnus Juan Antonio Cuellar, executive president of the Batuta National Foundation in Colombia, will visit the IU Jacobs School from April 11-13 to give a master class and lecture on transforming society through the musical arts. The foundation, which he has been president of since 2008, involves the music education of over 40,000 children in pre-orchestras, orchestra,… Read more »
Jay Hurst wins composition department Kuttner String Quartet competition with “Chekhov’s Gun”
Congratulations to Jay Hurst, the winner of the 2012-13 Composition Department “Kuttner String Quartet” Competition. His work Chekhov’s Gun will be performed in a concert at the Indiana University Grunwald Gallery, Saturday April 20 at 2pm. Performing Chekhov’s Gun will be Jacobs School of Music student quartet Michael Acosta and Jinty McTavish, violins; Josh Hunton, viola; and Andrew Bader, cello. “Chekhov’s Gun… Read more »
Hammer and Nail: Student Composer/Contemporary Choreography Collaboration
This Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9 and 10, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington, Indiana University student dancers and musicians will perform two shows of original choreography and music—at 6:30 p.m. (Program A) and 8:30 p.m. (Program B)—in Hammer and Nail. Each program, exploring a wide range of ideas, is approximately one hour long… Read more »
Recent performances of Jeremy Podgursky’s compositions
Jeremy Podgursky’s MINDJOB (Version 2) was performed by NY-based ensemble CONTEMPORANEOUS in February. The ensemble performed Podgursky’s piece at Bard Conservatory and then the following day at P.S. 142 (NYC) as part of the neighborhood classics concert.