Alumni

Clint Needham, DM’10, had two orchestral commissions premiered in early April 2011. The first work, Southern Air, was premiered by the Texarkana Symphony and was hailed as a “… nostalgic, beautiful composition that truly captured the spirit on this warm spring day – thick, sultry Southern air …” by Aaron Brand of the Texarkana Gazette. The next work,… Read more »

Congratulations to alumnus Eric Nathan, who received the ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize for his thesis composition “Icarus Dreamt”. “Icarus Dreamt” has also won such awards as the 2010 Aspen Music Festival and School’s Jacob Druckman Prize for orchestral composition and the 2008 William Schuman Prize in the BMI Student Composer Awards. “Icarus Dreamt” has been… Read more »

Michael Woods’, MM’80, latest projects include giving a fall concert of 10 new selections each year for the last 10 years. He recently finished a new work for orchestra that is based on jazz influences and black church shouts.

Alumnus Mischa Zupko, MM ’98, DM ’03, is serving as the 2010-11 composer-in-residence with Chicago’s Fulcrum Point New Music Project directed by Stephen Burns. Zupko’s residency includes several performances of his work, collaborative projects with video artists, and pre-concert and post-concert discussions as well as a host of educational outreach projects within the Chicago Public School system. He… Read more »

Cary Boyce Alumnus Cary Boyce, winner of the 2010 Annual Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Organ and Choir Composition Competition, will receive the world premiere performance of his composition, Lux, at the University of Chicago Rockefeller Memorial Chapel’s anniversary concert, “A Midwinter Celebration,” December 5 at 3pm.  IU Alumnus James Kallembach will direct the Rockefeller Chapel Choir… Read more »

Two Jacobs alumni shared the stage in a unique way at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 24 when violinist Jennifer Roig-Francolí, BM’90, violin, performed the world premiere of a new piece composed by her husband Miguel Roig-Francolí, MM’85, composition; Ph.D.’90, music theory; professor of music theory and composition at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) of the University of Cincinnati. Jennifer, a… Read more »

Brian Blume’s (MM outside area) Alarm! for percussion ensemble will be premiered at the Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic in Chicago in December by the Center Grove H. S. Percussion Ensemble. Also, he will be performing several of his works (among others, including a Chappell Kingsland piece) in the TROMP International Percussion Festival in Eindhoven, Netherlands Nov. 13-21.

Clint Needham, MM, DM’10, has been commissioned to write a work for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in celebration of their 40th year anniversary season next year at Carnegie Hall. Sixty composers were nominated and, over several months, a committee narrowed the field down to 12 finalists (including several IU alumni). From the finalists, four composers received commissions. Click for More>>

Eric Guinivan, Sean Shepard, BM’02, and Clint Needham, DM’10, have been announced as top-12 finalists for the Orpheus Project 440 commission prize. Click here for more >>

Kenneth Froelich, DM’04, MM’01, will be in residence Oct. 12-17 at Cornell University. During his stay there, he will be teaching composition master classes both to the students at Cornell and to students at Ithaca area secondary schools. At the conclusion of the residency, his work “Pulse Mutations” (dissertation) will be premiered by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra. On Nov…. Read more »