Louis Goldford received a world premiere of his “Travertine Hybrid #3” for violin and electronics at the Composit New Music Festival in Rieti, Italy. Violinist Marco Fusi gave the premiere performance. Additionally, Goldford performed his “Chu Sheng Tai” (“Nascent States”) for sopranino saxophone and electronics at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory, as… Read more »
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Grant Luhmann wins 2014 BMI Student Composer Award
Undergraduate student Grant Luhmann (front center) was awarded a 2014 BMI Student Composer Award for his percussion trio “The Triumvirate” in May. Read more at http://www.bmifoundation.org/news/bmi_bmi_foundation_announce_winners_of_62nd_annual_bmi_student_composer_awa.
Jacobs alumna Sang Mi Ahn (DM ’14) to have piece “Convergence” performed in Greece
Sang Mi Ahn’s Convergence has been selected for performance at the Idee Fixe Ensemble’s Electroacoustic Concert titled “+29 db May”. The piece will be performed by saxophonist Theofilos Sotiriades at “Mikropolis” (Venizelou street & B.Irakleiou 18) in Thessaloniki, Greece on May 29, 2014. Ahn completed a Doctor of Music degree in Composition from Indiana University,… Read more »
Matthew Peterson (MM ’08) Wins 2014 Uppsala Tonsättartävling
Jacobs alumnus Matthew Peterson charmed both the jury and the audience in Uppsala, Sweden at the finals of the biannual young composer’s contest. He was the big winner in this year’s edition of Uppsala Tonsättartävling. Matthew won both the jury and audience award with his chamber orchestra work “And all the trees of the field… Read more »
Nicholas Cline (MM ’13) featured composer-in-residence at High Concept Laboratories
Nicholas Cline will be the Summer 2014 composer-in-residence at High Concept Laboratories. He will present a series of talks, workshops, and performances of a new work for percussion and electronics that explores Midwestern earthquakes through sonification and spatialization. Other recent performances include Homage to La Monte Young (4-channel playback) at the Sweet Thunder Festival of… Read more »
Update from Jacobs alumnus Tim Miller (DM ’13)
Composer and Jacobs School of Music alumnus Tim Miller’s “Three Junes” was recently performed by the Indiana University Southeast Concert Band on April 13, 2014 at the Ogle Cultural and Community Center in New Albany, IN. Miller is currently serving as an adjunct faculty in music theory at Indiana University Southeast. Miller has also recently… Read more »
Alumnas Natalie Williams (DM ’12) Appointed as SCI National Student Chapters Coordinator
Jacobs School alumnus, Natalie Williams, was recently appointed as the National Student Chapters Coordinator for the SCI (Society of Composers, Inc.). The Student Chapter Coordinator serves as the liaison between SCI and SCI Student Chapters. The Coordinator provides guidance to SCI Student Chapter leaders and faculty sponsors, develops and implements visioning, and aligns with the… Read more »
Melody Eotvos and Max Grafe (BM 2012) have been accepted into the JUNE 2014 Readings and Performances NY Philharmonic and American Composers Orchestra
The New York Philharmonic and American Composers Orchestra, in collaboration with ACO’s EarShot: the National Orchestra Composition Discovery Network, have announced the selection of 13 emerging composers whose original scores for orchestra have been chosen for readings and performances by the Philharmonic and ACO. They were selected from an international pool of more than 400… Read more »
Record Release!
Gabriel Lubell’s new album of recent chamber works will be released in Bloomington on Saturday, May 3, and beyond shortly after. The album will be available for download and as a special pressing on color vinyl. It features the Tesla quartet performing his Study of Luminous Objects, Heidi Radtke Siberz in work for saxophone and… Read more »
Performances of Sang Mi Ahn’s works in San Francisco, Seoul, and Berlin
Sang Mi Ahn’s Narval was recently presented at the Sweet Thunder Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on April 24-27. In May, her Hwae Sang (Remembrance) will receive its Korean premiere by violinists Bo-Yun Lee and Won-Soon Chung at Recital Hall in Seoul Arts Center. In June, Sang Mi’s… Read more »