Jacobs student wins American Academy of Arts and Letters award Jeremy Podgursky, a doctoral student at the IU Jacobs School of Music, compares music composition to architecture: you envision the building in your mind, draft the piece and then hand it over to a group of builders. “It’s enthralling and exciting if you’re willing… Read more »
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Jeremy Podgursky wins American Academy of Arts and Letters award
The American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2014 Music Award Winners Sixteen Composers Receive Awards Totaling $175,000 New York, March 4, 2014—The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the sixteen recipients of this year’s awards in music, which total $175,000. The winners were selected by a committee of Academy members: … Read more »
Update from Grant Luhmann
Grant Luhmann has been asked by musicians and the Board of Directors of the Brazosport Symphony Orchestra to compose a new work for solo tuba and large orchestra. The work will be premiered by the Brazosport Symphony Orchestra with conductor John Ricarte and tubist Philip Walker in the 2014-15 concert season.
Update from Louis Goldford
Louis Goldford (MM, 2014) received a performance of his Panopticon (2013), for 12 periphonically spatialized clarinets, as part of the IU Project Jumpstart “Stars in the Spotlight: A Jacobs School of Music Showcase” on January 17 in Nashville, Indiana. Louis was also accepted to the 2014 SEAMUS National Conference, where his piece Grand Sepia Taksim… Read more »
Update from Corey Rubin
Corey Rubin’s After the Dazzle of Day, for SATB chorus, wind ensemble, and strings, will be premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York City on February 7th. The concert will feature student ensembles from Duxbury High School in Duxbury, Massachusetts, which commissioned the piece. http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2014/2/7/0700/PM/Duxbury-High-School-Music-Department-Concert/
Omaha Symphony to Perform Ben Taylor’s “Shooting Stars”
Benjamin Taylor is excited to travel to Nebraska where the Omaha Symphony will perform his newest orchestra work titled “Shooting Stars.” The work was commissioned by the Barlow Endowment and will be performed a total of five times on an educational outreach program. Mr. Taylor will speak to the audience about the piece and answer… Read more »
Update from Sang Mi Ahn
Sang Mi Ahn’s Narval has been selected for performance at the National Student Electronic Music Event (N_SEME). The conference will be held at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia on February 21-22, 2014.
Corey Dundee Wins Calefax Reed Quintet’s International Composer’s Competition
Corey Dundee was recently named winner of the Calefax Reed Quintet’s International Composer’s Competition for my work F.U.B.A.R. for reed quintet. The piece was premiered by Calefax during the PAN festival gala concert on December 28th, at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam. F.U.B.A.R. will additionally be performed by a consortium of seven reed quintets throughout… Read more »
Hungarian Festival with International Vocal Ensemble concert postponed
The Hungarian Festival with International Vocal Ensemble concert, scheduled for January 22 in Ford Hall, has been postponed. A new date has not yet been set.
Update from Kevin Hartnett
Kevin Hartnett’s new choral piece There Is a Flower was premiered by Kantorei of Kansas City in December. The ensemble, led by artistic director Chris Munce, performed the piece on two concerts in Kansas City as part of their “Meditations and Carols” Christmas program.