Phillip Sink’s “Lake Effect” has been named the winner of the 2013 Kuttner Quartet Composition Competition. His work will be included in their 2014 spring recital.
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Update from Kenji Kuriyama
Kenji Kuriyama’s Redemption for flute, cello, and piano was selected as the winner of the 2013 Nina Elizabeth Nilssen Scholarship Fund award. http://ninasfund.org/scholarship-recipients/
MUSIC REVIEW: NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE AND LARSEN
The whole concert was a delight to hear By Peter Jacobi In a conversation prior to Thursday evening’s New Music Ensemble concert, guest composer Libby Larsen waxed enthusiastically about the ensemble and its director, David Dzubay. We did not meet again after the program, but I would guess that she was waxing again because the… Read more »
Winners of NOTUS Student Composition Contest Announced
Wallinga and Sink named winners of NOTUS Student Composition Contest Two Jacobs School composition students have been named prizewinners in this year’s NOTUS Choral Composition Contest. Patricia Wallinga is the first-prize winner for her work Portraits of Wartime for mixed chorus and cello. Wallinga is a first-year undergraduate composition student studying with Don Freund. She… Read more »
Composer Libby Larsen to speak in Master Class, serve as a guest composer
By Carolyn Crowcroft Composer Libby Larsen will take up a residency Wednesday and Thursday at the Jacobs School of Music as part of the music school’s “Five Friends Master Class Series.” Larsen will give a lecture at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Ford-Crawford Hall. She will also serve as guest composer for the New Music Ensemble’s… Read more »
Hammer and Nail: Student Composer/Contemporary Choreography Collaboration
This Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9 and 10, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in downtown Bloomington, Indiana University student dancers and musicians will perform two shows of original choreography and music—at 6:30 p.m. (Program A) and 8:30 p.m. (Program B)—in Hammer and Nail. Each program, exploring a wide range of ideas, is approximately one hour long… Read more »