Will Rowe’s choral piece The House on the Street has been chosen as the American ISCM Section’s selected work at the ISCM World New Music Days 2013 festival. It will be performed by Camerata Silesia Katowice and Anna Szostak on Nov. 13 at the Urania Observatory in Vienna, Austria.
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CECM composers selected for the 2013 Electroacoustic Barn Dance
Four composers from the Indiana University Center for Electronic and Computer Music have been invited to a three-day festival of electronic music and art, to be held November 7 – 9, 2013 on the campus of the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This years festival will feature Trumpeter Samuel Wells (current MM student). … Read more »
IU Composers at 2013 Mizzou International Composers Festival
Four IU composition students had works performed by Alarm Will Sound at this year’s Mizzou International Composers Festival: Resident composers Ryan Chase (current) and Eric Guinivan (BM’06), featured guest composer Daniel Kellogg (Alumni), and Festival host Stefan Freund (Alumni). Click here for more information >
Melody Eötvös selected for 2013 PARMA Anthology of Music
Melody Eötvös’s string quartet, Olber’s Dance in the Dark, has been selected as one of the 10 winners in the PARMA Student Composer Competition. Her piece, selected from hundreds of other works by the judging panel, will be included in the 2013 PARMA Anthology of Music.
Sang Mi Ahn wins the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize
Congratulations to Sang Mi Ahn, who won the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize at the 2013 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music with her piece “Dirge for the Earth Elements.”
Sam Wells and Ben Taylor featured at Fulcrim Point Discoveries Series
On Monday, July 15, the Fulcrum Point Discoveries Series of new works by young and emerging American composers will be presented at the Merit School of Music. The workshop will feature Jacobs composer/trumpeter Sam Wells as guest artist, performing three new works for trumpet and electronics, including one by doctoral composition student Ben Taylor. Fulcrum Point Discoveries is… Read more »
Sang Mi Ahn’s composition to be performed at ICMC 2013
Sang Mi Ahn’s “Convergence” (for alto saxophone and electronics) was accepted for performance at the 2013 International Computer Music Conference in Perth, Western Australia, August 11-17.
2013 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. 2013 DEAN’S PRIZE COMPOSITION COMPETITION Category A (Orchestra or Wind Ensemble, $500 prize): Elliott Bark, YOOK-I-O, for orchestra Category B (Chamber/Ensemble, $1000 prize and commission for a new work to be premiered by the… Read more »
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 »
Recent performances of Ryan Chase
On April 2, the Contemporaneous ensemble with Ariadne Greif premiered Chase’s “Carroll Madrigals”, for soprano and ensemble, commissioned by Contemporaneous for the Fordham Voices Up! Festival. IU Alumnus Colin Sorgi premieres “Arcade Glitch”, for violin and tape, commissioned by Colin, on April 5th, and on April 9th Kay Stern, concertmaster of the San Francisco Opera… Read more »