Undergraduate student Grant Luhmann (front center) was awarded a 2014 BMI Student Composer Award for his percussion trio “The Triumvirate” in May. Read more at http://www.bmifoundation.org/news/bmi_bmi_foundation_announce_winners_of_62nd_annual_bmi_student_composer_awa.
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Melody Eotvos and Max Grafe (BM 2012) have been accepted into the JUNE 2014 Readings and Performances NY Philharmonic and American Composers Orchestra
The New York Philharmonic and American Composers Orchestra, in collaboration with ACO’s EarShot: the National Orchestra Composition Discovery Network, have announced the selection of 13 emerging composers whose original scores for orchestra have been chosen for readings and performances by the Philharmonic and ACO. They were selected from an international pool of more than 400… Read more »
Record Release!
Gabriel Lubell’s new album of recent chamber works will be released in Bloomington on Saturday, May 3, and beyond shortly after. The album will be available for download and as a special pressing on color vinyl. It features the Tesla quartet performing his Study of Luminous Objects, Heidi Radtke Siberz in work for saxophone and… Read more »
Performances of Sang Mi Ahn’s works in San Francisco, Seoul, and Berlin
Sang Mi Ahn’s Narval was recently presented at the Sweet Thunder Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco on April 24-27. In May, her Hwae Sang (Remembrance) will receive its Korean premiere by violinists Bo-Yun Lee and Won-Soon Chung at Recital Hall in Seoul Arts Center. In June, Sang Mi’s… Read more »
Jess Turner Residency and Premiere
Jess Turner is to be the composer-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin – LaCrosse from Ap. 30 to May 2. Five of Jess’ works for wind ensemble as well as his brass quintet will be performed during that time. In addition, the premiere of Jess’ Reanimations for two solo trumpets and wind ensemble will take… Read more »
Taylor’s Digital Goldfish European Premiere
Benjamin Taylor’s saxophone quartet “Digital Goldfish” will be performed at the Scandinavian Saxophone Festival on Thursday, April 17, 2014 at Musikhuset in Aarhus/Denmark. The ensemble will consist of: Claus Olesen – soprano saxophone, Joonatan Rautiola – alto saxophone, Martin Eriksson – tenor saxophone, Johannes Thorell – baritone saxophone. http://scandinaviansaxophonefestival.com/about/
Will Rowe honored for research and creative activity
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Five Indiana University Bloomington students have received the Provost’s Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity, recognizing exceptional and original academic work. Recipients of the 2013-14 award are: Madeline Dinges, in the category of Professional Inquiry; Christian Hayes, Natural and Mathematical Sciences; Tom Ladendorf, Humanities; Will Rowe, Performing and Creative Arts; and… Read more »
Composition Department prizes announced
The faculty of the Jacobs School of Music Composition Department is pleased to announce results for the following annual internal competitions. 2014 “DEAN’S PRIZE” COMPOSITION COMPETITION Category A (Orchestra or Wind Ensemble, $500 prize): Sang Mi Ahn, Valley of Dry Bones, for orchestra Category B (Chamber/Ensemble, $1000 prize and commission for a new work to be… Read more »
Sang Mi Ahn’s composition to be performed in Korea
Sang Mi Ahn’s “Hwae Sang” (“Remembrance”) will receive its Korean premiere by violinists Bo-Yun Lee and Won-Soon Chung at Recital Hall in Seoul Arts Center on May 9, 2014.
Texu Kim appointed composer-in-residence at Korean Symphony Orchestra
Texu Kim, a D.M. student of Claude Baker, has been appointed composer-in-residence at the Korean Symphony Orchestra, one of the finest orchestras in South Korea. It will premiere two of his orchestral pieces in 2015. Visit the home page of the orchestra at http://koreansymphony.com/store/main/main_eng.php.