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April 2024 Newsletter
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Alexey Logunov Performances of Unknown worlds Alexey’s Unknown worlds for violin, interactive video, and live electronics is programmed to be performed in March and April at the Performing Media Festival 2024 (South Bend, IN) by IU student Marienn Sánchez and at SEAMUS@40 – Electroacoustic Fais Do Do (Baton Rouge, LA) by LSU Professor of Violin Lin He. To learn more about Alexey’s projects, visit his website. |
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Daniel Cui Performances Daniel Cui’s work ‘The Great Firewall’ written for saxophone quartet was performed by Project Fusion Saxophone Quartet at the CAMPGround24 festival on March 16th in Tempa, Florida. This piece will receive another performance at the Nordic Saxophone Festival on March 22nd in Aarhus, Denmark. Additionally, his new commissioned work ‘Pining’ for mixed octet will be premiered by Wild Up ensemble at the TUTTI festival on March 23rd in Granville, Ohio. |
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Kian Ravaei April Performances On April 9 at 8pm, the IU Concert Band will perform Prima Vera in Auer Hall. Ravaei’s Family Photos receives four performances this month: April 20–21 at the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra “Music of Iran” concert, April 25 at the Art of Elan in San Diego, and April 28 at Chimaera’s “street chronicles” concert in Antwerp, Belgium. Additionally, Gulistan will have its European premiere at OSPA FEST in Asturias, Spain, and The Little Things will be performed at the Newport String Project. |
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Premiere of Wesley Thompson’s Solar Sonata, Voyager in New York Wesley Thompson’s Solar Sonata, Voyager¸ is a five-movement work for nine players commissioned by Manhattan School of Music’s contemporary chamber ensemble, Tactus. This recently completed piece will be performed as the finale of Tactus’s yearly concert on April 12th at 7:30 PM in MSM’s Neidorff-Karpati Hall. Voyager is Thompson’s musical tribute to the NASA space probes of the same name and follows their journey from Earth to beyond the boundary of our solar system. To read more about Thompson’s musical activities, visit his website here. |
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Faculty News |
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Freund’s Hard Cells and “Life of the Party” still alive! Don Freund’s February 4 performance of 5 of his Piano Preludes, including the premiere of Take Five (and a half), is now on YouTube. The USC Thornton Edge ensemble under Donald Crockett revisited Freund’s Hard Cells to begin their February 29th concert. Freund’s Life of the Party (Concerto for Bassoon and 16 Friends) is being presented by its dedicatee, bassoonist Kim Walker, and a group of pros from the DC area under Lisa Eckstein on the NOVA Alexandria campus March 26. |
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