Works by Melody Eotvos, Jeremy Podgursky, and Texu Kim–all Jacobs grad students in composition–will be presented at the SONiC Festival in New York City October 15-23, 2015. The festival, produced by the American Composers Orchestra, features twenty-first century music by more than 60 composers age 40 and under. In addition, Kim has been commissioned to… Read more »
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Wallinga, Ko (MM ’12), and Grafe (BM ’11) Win 2015 BMI Student Composer Awards
Current student, Patricia Wallinga, and alumni Tonia Ko (MM, 2012) and Max Grafe (BM, 2011) have been named winners in the 63rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards, a competition open to young classical composers throughout the Western Hemisphere. Renowned American composer and permanent Chair of the Student Composer Awards, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, BMI President and… Read more »
Festival featuring New Music and Art from Australia
Prof. David Ward-Steinman with the assistance of Alumna Melody Eötvös (DM ’14) will be presenting a mini-Australian Music Festival at the Jacobs School of Music on the 25th & 26th March 2015. Guest Artists include pianist Bernadette Harvey from Sydney, and Composer-Clarinetist-Visual Artist Dr. Brigid Burke from Melbourne, Australia. The main event, a chamber music… Read more »
Video game music composition guru Chance Thomas at Jacobs School of Music Feb. 16
“Composing music for video games is one of the top-10 fastest growing jobs in America.” (USA TODAY, Geekwire) That’s music to the ears of composition students. But only those who speak its singularly sophisticated scoring language will earn the opportunity to compete for these jobs. For interested students and members of the public alike, the… Read more »
Corey Rubin winner of 2015 NOTUS Student Composition Contest
Corey Rubin has been named the winner of this year’s NOTUS Choral Composition Contest. Rubin’s prize-winning work is After-Glow for mixed chorus a cappella. A second-year graduate student, he is pursuing a Master of Music in Composition at the Jacobs School, and his teachers have included Claude Baker, Don Freund, and Sven-David Sandström. He is… Read more »
Elizabeth Ogonek (BM ’09) Selected by Riccardo Muti as CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence
Elizabeth Ogonek (BM ’09) has been selected by Riccardo Muti for the position of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mead Composers-in-Residence. Ogonek and one other composer, Samuel Adams, will hold a three year term with the CSO beginning with the 2015/2016 year. Throughout their composer-in-residence tenure, Adams and Ogonek will receive commissions for works to be… Read more »
Alumnus Elliott Bark wins Korean National Composer Prize
Alumnus Elliott Bark’s “(Com)Passionate Music for Guitar and String Quartet”–commissioned and recorded by the Petar Jankovic Ensemble for its new album, “(Com)Passionate,”–received the 2014 Korean National Composer Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for Korean composers. “(Com)Passionate Music” is a 12-minute, complex, and very engaging new work. The first movement is full of raw energy and passion… Read more »
Andrew Simpson (DM ’95) Composes Score for “The General” to Show at IU Cinema
Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton’s fild “The General” will now feature a new orchestral score by Andrew Simpson (DM ’95) which will be performed live at IU Cinema November 8th and 9th at 7 pm. This is the Midwest premier. The first 100 IUB students to present their University ID will recieve free admission and… Read more »
Eötvös awarded Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation commission
Melody Eötvös (DM ’14) has been selected by the League of American Orchestras and Earshot for an orchestral commission supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation. The Toulmin commission is a part of a new program to provide commissions and premieres for scores composed by women. Eötvös was selected from among six composers who took part in… Read more »
Update from Sang Mi Ahn (DM ’14)
Sang Mi Ahn’s Metabolism was realized in a sound installation called “Sound Planetarium” in three different locations (Tours, Bourges, and Orélans) in France during the Arts & Science Days (JAS 2014). In July, her Convergence was performed by Theofilos Sotiriades at The 3rd International Summer Music Academy in Kavala, Greece and also performed by Lindsay… Read more »