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 »
Alumni
Update from Ben Taylor (DM 2014)
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 »
Eric Nathan (MM ’08) wins Guggenheim Fellowship, appointed visiting assistant professor at Williams College
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 »
Album release featuring David Jones’ (DM ’95) trombone music
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 Patterson (MM ’01) wins Utah Arts Festival Commission Competition
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 »
Jacobs alumnus Eric Lindsay’s (DM ’13) “Hopkin and the Wired Night” performed in New York Museum of Modern Art
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 »
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 »