Alumni

Bang on a Can All-Stars http://www.carnegiehall.org/Event.aspx?id=5061 Bang on a Can started out in 1987 as a group of free-wheeling composers dedicated to adding a fresh voice to contemporary music. Since then, they’ve started their own summer festival, record label, and their own performing All-Stars group. In March 2010, Bang on a Can All-Stars debuted Louis… Read more »

The Classical Recording Foundation (CRF) announced the 2011 winners of its tenth annual Classical Recording Foundation Awards. Four prizes will be presented at the Foundation’s Annual Awards Concert and Benefit at 8:00pm on Monday, November 21, 2011 at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital hall. The event, for which the public may purchase tickets, will feature Jacobs… Read more »

After 14 years as a professor and associate chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio, David Heuser (DM’95) has relocated to become the associate dean at The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. He is looking forward to having seasons again. In other news, his string quartet, Small Blue Marble, was just… Read more »

BYU awards Ohio professor with prestigious Barlow Prize By sarah gambles Deseret News http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700185929/BYU-awards-Ohio-professor-with-prestigious-Barlow-Prize.html Published: Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 10:41 a.m. MDT When Clint Needham walked into his kitchen still wearing his pajamas to check his email, he never expected one of his messages would inform him he had won the $12,000 Barlow Prize from… Read more »

Needham wins endowment for woodwind piece http://www.owutranscript.com/prof-to-compose-major-work-1.2583202 Ohio Wesleyan University faculty member and composer Clint Needham has been selected as the winner of the 2011 Barlow Prize, an international award presented annually by the Utah-based Barlow Endowment for Music Composition. As the 2011 winner, Needham earns a $12,000 commission to compose a major new work… Read more »

The Notebook: IU grad wins composing award  http://www.indystar.com/article/20110911/ENTERTAINMENT/109110339/The-Notebook-IU-grad-wins-composing-award?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CEntertainment 10:39 AM, Sep. 10, 2011|   Clint Needham, who holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, has won the 2011 Barlow Prize, a commission to compose a work for woodwind quintet. The $12,000 award by the endowment, based in Provo, Utah, will… Read more »

Alumnus Eric Nathan’s recent compositions have struck a chord with two competitions! His string quartet “Four to One” was just selected as a finalist in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music New Music Week Call for String Quartet Scores. The piece will be performed by Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (http://www.lenem.ca/) in Shanghai during the Shanghai Conservatory… Read more »

Composer and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music alum, Clint Needham (MM 2006, DM 2010), has been selected as the winner of the 2011 International Barlow Prize. Along with this distinction comes a $12,000 consortium commission for the Imani Winds, Fifth House Ensemble, and Orpheus Winds. Previous winners of the Barlow Prize include Christopher Theofanidis,… Read more »

Clint Needham, DM’10, MM’06, composition, is one of eight resident composers selected from around the world for the 2011 Mizzou New Music Festival in Columbia, Mo., in July.  Needham’s work Urban Sprawl will be premiered by acclaimed new music chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound on July 16 at the Missouri Theatre. Click for more.

Eric Nathan, MM’08, received a New York Youth Symphony First Music Commission for a new chamber work to be premiered by members of the New York Youth Symphony in Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall during the 2011-12 season.