In September 2012, a commercial recording of four orchestral works by Claude Baker was released on the Naxos label (8.559642). Included on the disc are The Glass Bead Game, Awaking the Winds, Shadows: Four Dirge-Nocturnes, and The Mystic Trumpeter. The pieces are performed by the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin and Hans Vonk…. Read more »
Faculty
IU composers excel in Third International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest
IU Jacobs School of Music composition students, alumni and faculty works for wind ensemble excelled at this year’s Frank Ticheli Composition Contest. Four IU-related winners, out of nine awards total, include current student Benjamin Taylor for his work Whiz-bang, alumna Joni Greene for her work Cameron’s Dream, alumnus Matthew Peterson for his work Reflections on… Read more »
Composer Joan Tower “Five Friends” residency includes lecture today and performance of works with New Music Ensemble, Friday
Joan Tower, widely regarded as one of the most important American composers living today, will spend this week at the IU Jacobs School of Music, offering a lecture Wednesday April 17, group lessons to composition students and will be the featured composer in the New Music Ensemble concert, Friday April 19. The residency is part… Read more »
Jacobs composers at Florida State University
Last weekend, four Jacobs composers left the frozen north to attend the Sixteenth Biennial Festival of New Music at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The festival adjudicators selected 33 pieces from over 400 submissions, including works by doctoral students Eric Lindsay (Town’s Gonna Talk, for mixed ensemble), Steven Snethkamp (Lullaby, for piano), and Ben Taylor (Leaving… Read more »
Associate Professor P.Q. Phan receives IU Faculty fellowship in support of new requiem
Associate Professor P.Q. Phan has received $20,000 from a new IU funding program made possible by the Mellon Innovating International Research and Teaching (MIIRT) program. The funds will be used to support his project titled “Laying the Foundation for the First Vietnamese Requiem.” More information about the MIIRT program can be learned here >
Composer Joseph Schwantner visits Jacobs School for first “Five Friends Master Class Series” residency
The first guest in the “Five Friends Master Class Series”—honoring the lives of Chris Carducci, Garth Eppley, Georgina Joshi, Zachary Novak, and Robert Samels—is composer Joseph Schwantner, one of the most prominent American composers today. He will visit the Jacobs School for a mini-residency in the Composition Department Oct. 22-25. A public guest lecture by… Read more »
John Gibson is guest artist at Lipa Festival of Contemporary Music
John Gibson, assistant professor of composition (electronic music), is the guest artist of the Lipa Festival of Contemporary Music at Iowa State University, October 8-9. He is giving several lectures and participating in performances of his “Blue Traces,” for piano and computer; “Red Plumes,” for cello and live electronics; and “Elements,” a video with surround… Read more »
John Gibson premiere of “Uncanny Valley”
Boston-based pianist Oni Buchanan and poet Jon Woodward have commissioned Uncanny Valley, a 50-minute piece for piano and electronics from Assistant Professor John Gibson. The premiere takes place on Sept. 27 at the University of Michigan, with performances scheduled around the country this season. The music serves as accompaniment and counterpart to a live reading… Read more »
Sven-David Sandstrom returns to Bloomington
After nine years as a professor of composition at the Jacobs School of Music, Sven-David Sandström “retired” in 2008. He had been offered a three-year term as composer-in-residence at Storkyrkan, the main cathedral in Stockholm, and the church of Hässelby Villastad, outside of Stockholm, to compose music for all Sundays and holidays of the church year…. Read more »
Don Freund receives warm review in GRAMOPHONE for Bach recording
Faculty composer and pianist Don Freund has received a wonderful review in Gramophone Magazine (September) for his recent recording of Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier”, Book 1 “.. an unusual amount of intimacy, clarity and understanding that are remarkably in touch with the piano’s own physical characteristics.” See more at: http://www.exacteditions.com/read/gramophone/september-2012-32120/13/3/