Ara Cho (MM ’13) won the 4th Ilshin Composition Prize, which included the premiere of a new composition at the Seoul Spring Festival.  With an additional prize of ten thousand dollars, her piece “The Star” was performed by Ensemble TIMF for Seoul Spring Festival in Korea. Cho’s teachers of composition include Jiesun Lim, Soyeon Lee,… Read more »

Justin Merritt (MM ’99, DM ’03) has 3 new CDs of his music available: “American Lyricism” by pianist Christ Atzinger,” Blender” by pianist Matthew McCright, and “Norge Mitt Norge” by the St. Olaf Choir. Merritt studied composition with Samuel Adler, Sven-David Sandstrom, Claude Baker, Timothy Kramer, Don Freund, and electronic and computer music with Jeffrey… Read more »

Keith Fitch (BM, ’89; MM, ’92, DM, ’95) spent the month of July in residence at The Copland House (Rock Hill), in Cortlandt Manor, NY, Aaron Copland’s longtime home. He was one of eight composers chosen for 2014 from a pool of 99 applicants. While there, he worked on a piano quartet to be premiered… Read more »

Benjamin Taylor (DM 2014) enjoys an active career as a composer/performer/entrepreneur. He has recently had performances of his compositions in Sweden, Brazil, Oregon, New York, Idaho, Utah, and Indiana. He is excited to be booked solid with commissions through 2015. Taylor holds his DM (’14) from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and received his… Read more »

In April, Eric Nathan (MM’08) was awarded a 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Musical Composition and was appointed Visiting Assistant Professor at Williams College for the 2014-15 academic year. This summer, New York Philharmonic Principal Trombonist Joseph Alessi premiered Eric’s “As Above, So Below” at the New York Philharmonic Biennial, and “Toying” for solo… Read more »

The trombone music of Dr. David P. Jones (DM 1995) is featured exclusively on “Bone Moan”, a CD (Summit) released in December 2013.  The recording features Mark Hetzler (Faculty, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), the Pro Arte String Quartet and several professional and student trombonists and percussionists from Wisconsin and Florida and includes most of the trombone… Read more »

Robert Paterson’s recent accomplishments include winning the Utah Arts Festival Composition Competition, which included the premiere of his commissioned work “Hell’s Kitchen” for chamber sextet, the New York City semi-staged premiere of his one-act opera The Companion, co-presented by American Opera Projects, Ear Heart Music and the American Modern Ensemble and a newly commissioned work… Read more »

Members of ICE and the New Juilliard Ensemble gave the New York premiere of Eric Lindsay’s “Hopkin and the Wired Night” as part of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Summergarden concert series. The work was performed alongside premieres from Roberto Sierra, Peter Sculthorpe and Errollyn Wallen. Lindsay received his DM from the Indiana University… Read more »