By Peter Jacobi H-T Reviewer Often, I’m of two minds when I have heard and watched the Indiana University New Music Ensemble at work. Its director and conductor, David Dzubay, is a marvel of a musician, being also a composer of undeniable and well-deserved respect. For the ensemble, he knows how to select students with… Read more »
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IU Jacobs Student Paul Mortilla Wins 2016 BMI Student Composer Award
64th Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced Published: 05.19.2016 The BMI Foundation (BMIF), in collaboration with Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), has announced the nine young classical composers, ages 15 to 27, who have been named winners of the 64th annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Renowned American composer and permanent Chair of the… Read more »
Matthew Recio and Christopher LaRosa winners of 2016 NOTUS Student Composition Contest
Matthew Recio and Christopher LaRosa have been named the first- and second-prize winners, respectively, of this year’s NOTUS Student Composition Contest. Recio’s first-prize work is “How to Survive Vesuvius” for mixed chorus a cappella. A second-year graduate student, he is pursuing a Master of Music degree in composition at the Jacobs School, where his principal… Read more »
Concerts to feature composers from four universities
By Brooke McAfee Musicians from four universities in the Midwest will collaborate in two days of concerts to present the work of student composers at the Midwest Composer’s Symposium, presented by the Jacobs School of Music. “The whole idea is to make a connection, to share the composing experience and to make the Midwest area… Read more »
Doctoral student Phillip Sink wins 2015 Hermitage Prize
The Hermitage Artist Retreat continued its partnership with the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) in Aspen, Colo., and awarded this year’s Hermitage Prize to up-and-coming composer Phillip Sink during the festival’s composers’ showcase. First awarded in 2013, the prize is given to a promising composer who is enrolled as a composition student at the AMFS. Selected… Read more »
Works by three Jacobs students presented at SONiC Festival
Works by Melody Eotvos, Jeremy Podgursky, and Texu Kim–all Jacobs grad students in composition–will be presented at the SONiC Festival in New York City October 15-23, 2015. The festival, produced by the American Composers Orchestra, features twenty-first century music by more than 60 composers age 40 and under. In addition, Kim has been commissioned to… Read more »
Wallinga, Ko (MM ’12), and Grafe (BM ’11) Win 2015 BMI Student Composer Awards
Current student, Patricia Wallinga, and alumni Tonia Ko (MM, 2012) and Max Grafe (BM, 2011) have been named winners in the 63rd annual BMI Student Composer Awards, a competition open to young classical composers throughout the Western Hemisphere. Renowned American composer and permanent Chair of the Student Composer Awards, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, BMI President and… Read more »
Corey Rubin winner of 2015 NOTUS Student Composition Contest
Corey Rubin has been named the winner of this year’s NOTUS Choral Composition Contest. Rubin’s prize-winning work is After-Glow for mixed chorus a cappella. A second-year graduate student, he is pursuing a Master of Music in Composition at the Jacobs School, and his teachers have included Claude Baker, Don Freund, and Sven-David Sandström. He is… Read more »
Yie-Eun Chun’s composition “Game of Fives” to be performed by Breakout Ensemble
Yie-Eun Chun’s piece “Game of Fives” has been selected for performance by the Breakout Ensemble for its 2014-15 concert series. It will be performed this October in Munich, Germany. More info at http://www.breakoutensemble.com/.
Composer Louis Goldford receives national and international premieres
Louis Goldford received a world premiere of his “Travertine Hybrid #3” for violin and electronics at the Composit New Music Festival in Rieti, Italy. Violinist Marco Fusi gave the premiere performance. Additionally, Goldford performed his “Chu Sheng Tai” (“Nascent States”) for sopranino saxophone and electronics at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory, as… Read more »