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September 2021 Newsletter
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Assistant Professor Jeremy Podgursky We would like to warmly welcome Visiting Assistant Professor Jeremy Podgursky to the Jacobs Composition Department. Podgursky’s music has been featured in venues and festivals in the United States, Europe, and Japan and has been performed by groups such as Alarm Will Sound, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Contemporaneous, Present Music, Square Peg Round Hole, and many others. He has been awarded the Copland House Residency Award, ASCAP Nissim Prize Special Distinction, IU Jacobs School of Music Dean’s Prize, and Northridge Prize for Orchestra. Podgursky has also been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Finale/American Composers Forum/Eighth Blackbird, Mizzou New Music Festival, American Composers Orchestra/Earshot, Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, and National SCI/ASCAP Commissioning Competition. Podgursky has taught composition, theory, and multimedia/electronic courses at the Jacobs School of Music and the University of Louisville, and he recently served as composer-in-residence for the Pike Falls New Music Festival in Jamaica, Vermont. He also toured the U.S. and Europe and released several recordings as singer/songwriter/guitarist for the critically acclaimed indie rock band The Pennies, whose music was featured on the series Shameless on the Showtime network. |
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Assistant Professor Sky Macklay (fall) We are delighted to welcome Visiting Assistant Professor Sky Macklay to the Jacobs Composition Department. Sky has been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chamber Music America (with Splinter Reeds), the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University (with Ensemble Dal Niente), the Barlow Endowment (with andPlay), the Jerome Fund for New Music (with ICE saxophonist Ryan Muncy), and Kronos Quartet’s 50 for the Future project. Upcoming commissions include new works for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Klangforum Wien. As a Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, she is also collaborating with French ensemble 2e2m. Sky’s music has been recognized with awards and fellowships from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Civitella Ranieri, and ASCAP, and has been featured at international festivals such as Gaudeamus Muziekweek, The BBC Scottish Symphony’s Tectonics Festival, and the ISCM World New Music Days. Sky completed her DMA in composition at Columbia University where she studied with George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Fred Lerdahl. She also holds degrees from The University of Memphis (MM) and Luther College (BA). An enthusiastic practitioner of creative music education, Sky taught for nine summers at The Walden School Young Musicians Program in Dublin, New Hampshire, an acclaimed summer school and festival for pre-college composers. In addition to teaching at IU this semester, she is on the composition faculty of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, and from 2018-2020 she was Assistant Professor of Music at Valparaiso University. Her music published by Edition Peters. |
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Associate Professor Andreia Pinto Correia (fall) We are equally delighted to welcome Visiting Associate Professor Andreia Pinto Correia to the Jacobs Composition Department. Andreia’ music follows a family tradition of scholars and writers, and her work is characterized by close attention to harmonic detail and timbral color.Honors include a 2020 Arts and Letters Award in Music by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and commissions from the European Union Presidency, Washington Performing Arts (Kennedy Center), League of American Orchestras and the Toulmin Foundation, Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Tanglewood Music Center, American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Albany Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music America, National Symphony, National Dance Company of Portugal, and National Bank of Portugal, among others. She held the Honorary Title of Fellow of the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, as a guest of the ARC Laureate Program for the Deep Human Past and the Indigenous Linguistics Alliance. Her concerto for orchestra, Timaeus, was commissioned by the Boston Symphony’s Tanglewood Music Center in memory of Elliott Carter, for the Festival’s 75th anniversary. Born in Portugal, Andreia Pinto Correia began her musical studies in her native Lisbon and received her Masters and Doctoral of Music degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. |
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Assistant Professor Katherine Balch (spring) We would like to warmly welcome Visiting Assistant Professor Katherine Balch to the Jacobs Composition Department. Katherine’s work has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the symphony orchestras of Minnesota, Oregon, Albany, Indianapolis, and Tokyo. She has been featured on IRCAM’s ManiFeste, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Festival MANCA in Europe, Suntory Summer Arts and Takefu Music Festival in Japan, and the Aspen, Norfolk, Santa Fe, and Tanglewood music festivals in the United States. Upcoming projects include new works for Ensemble Modern and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Katherine is the recipient of the 2020-2021 Elliott Carter Rome Prize Fellowship. She was the 2017-2020 composer-in-residence for the California Symphony, and held the 2017-2019 William B. Butz Composition Chair at Young Concert Artists, Inc.Other recognitions include awards and grants from Wigmore Hall, ASCAP, BMI, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, the Barlow Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Her music is published exclusively worldwide by Schott Music. Katherine has served on the faculties of Mannes School of Music, the Walden School, and Bard College Conservatory Prep. Currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, she counts George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas, and Marcos Balter among her mentors there. |
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Associate Professor Annie Gosfield (spring) The Jacobs School Composition Department would also like to extend a warm welcome to Visiting Associate Professor Annie Gosfield. She received a 2021 Music Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2017), American Academy in Rome (2015), American Academy in Berlin (2012), and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2008). Gosfield has been commissioned by and worked closely with The L.A. Philharmonic, Bang on a Can All-Stars, JACK Quartet, MIVOS Quartet, FLUX Quartet, So Percussion, Joan Jeanrenaud, Kathleen Supové, Lisa Moore, Felix Fan, FrancesMarie Uitti, Stephen Gosling, Anthony DeMare, Pauline Kim Harris, String Noise, Jennifer Choi, and many others. Annie has performed with Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Ches Smith, Chris Cutler, Derek Bailey, Ikue Mori, Fred Frith, Nels Cline, Yuka Honda, Wadada Leo Smith, and Roger Kleier. Her discography includes four portrait CD’s on Tzadik, and compositions on Sony Classical, EMI, Innova, CRI, Mode, ReR, Harmonia Mundi, Wergo, CRI, and ECM. Active as an educator, Gosfield was a visiting lecturer of composition at Columbia University in 2021. She was the Milhaud Professor of composition at Mills College, a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and U.T. Austin, and a visiting artist at CalArts. |
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2021 Sven-David Sandström Choral Composition AwardsThe $5,000 commission prize has been awarded to JSOM alumnus Matthew Peterson. Performance prizes will be announced as possible in the near future but will include a performance of alumnus Clint Needham’s Cradle My Heart by Dominick DiOrio and NOTUS in early 2022.The commissioned work will have a duration of approximately 8-12 minutes and will be edited and published by Gehrmans, one of the leading music publishers in Scandinavia. Funds for the commission are provided and will be disbursed by The Royal Swedish Academy of Music through the Sven-David Sandström Memorial Fund, chaired by Ann-Marie Lysell. The work will be premiered at a concert to be held on October 29, 2022, in conjunction with the celebration of Sven-David Sandström’s birthday in Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, during which the commissioned work will be premiered by the Swedish Radio Choir conducted by Kaspars Putniņš. | |
| 2021 New Voices for Orchestra We are pleased to announce the results of the jury’s consideration of submissions for this fall’s New Voices concert. The jury consisted of conductor Arthur Fagen, violinist Ellen dePasquale, and composers Sky Macklay, Andreia Pinto Correia and David Dzubay. The information for the New Voices Orchestra Concert is below:Sunday, November 14, 2021, 3pm Concert Orchestra; David Dzubay, conductorOliver Kwapis, Dreams of Flight (2021, MM thesis) [9:50] Anne Liao, Beneath the Stillness (2020, BM) [7:45] Carlo Frizzo, Nocturne (2021, DM dissertation) [10:20] Ben Yee-Paulson, You Are The Light (2020, DM) [6:20] Ben Rieke, The Evening Redness In The West (2021, BM) [10:20] |
Alumni News |
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Francisco Cortéz-Álvarez (MM ’11, DM ‘16) Commissioned by LA Philharmonic Franciso Cortéz-Álvarez, professor of composition at the Escuela de Bellas Artes of the Universidad Panamericana and the Facultad de Música of the UNAM, has been commissioned to write a new work for the LA Philharmonic as part of their Pan-American Music Initiative. The premiere will take place at Walt Disney Concert Hall in May of 2022. |
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Melody Eötvös (DM ‘14) and Natalie Williams (DM ’12) Commissioned by Australian National Academy of Music Alumni Melody Eötvös and Natalie Williams recently received commissions from the Australian National Academy of Music to write new solo works, joining 65 other Australian composers in an ambitious collaboration project. Melody will be collaborating with violist Ariel Postmus, and Natalie will collaborate with violinist Emily Su. |
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Summer Activities for Stacy Garrop (DM ’00) During the summer of 2021, Stacy Garrop had performances around the country and online. Her narrator + orchestra work The Battle for the Ballot was performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with conductor Marin Alsop. Alsop conducted it again with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Festival. Kronos Quartet performed her arrangement of “Sometime I feel like a motherless child” with audio of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson as part of their online summer Kronos Festival. Newport Music Festival commissioned her piano trio Beacon of the Bay, which was premiered by the Boston Trio at the festival in Newport, Rhode Island. Her art song “What can one woman do?” from her song cycle In Eleanor’s Words was performed by Gabrielle Barkidjija, mezzo-soprano, and Marika Yasuko, piano on San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera’s “What the Heart Desires” concert. Stacy also served as the first guest composition faculty at the Great Plains Saxophone Workshop, held at Oklahoma State University, and led several workshops as part of her mentor position with the Chicago a cappella/Kansas City Chorale HerVoice Emerging Women Composers competition and mentoring program. |
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Premieres and a Recording for Louis Goldford (MM ’14) Louis Goldford returned to France for the premiere of Embers for ensemble and its completion during an August residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, thanks to the gracious support of the Association des Amis de Royaumont. The premiere will be given by Ensemble Linea conducted by Jean-Philippe Wurtz during the Voix Nouvelles Festival at Royaumont Abbey on September 5th. This premiere follows a recent recording of Ensconced for ensemble and electronics, composed for the Wet Ink Ensemble in New York City. Ensconced debuted on Columbia University’s WKCR radio station on July 2nd as part of Airwaves Premieres, a program showcasing recent new works in lieu of live performances developed and recorded during the pandemic. |
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Texu Kim (DM ‘15) Wins 2021 Barlow Prize The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University proudly announces commission winners for 2021. After reviewing 574 submissions from 41 countries, the judging panel awarded Texu Kim of Korea/USA, the $12,000 Barlow Prize to compose a major new work for Sinfonietta, to be premiered by Alarm Will Sound, The London Sinfonietta, The Oakland Symphony Orchestra, and The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2023-2024. |
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Will Trachsel (DM ’21) Joins Music Faculty at Butler University Will Trachsel is excited to rejoin the faculty of the Butler University School of Music beginning in August of this year. He is teaching courses in music theory, aural skills, and music software. |
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Carol Ann Weaver (DM ’82) releases Poland Parables Poland Parables, set to poetic texts by Canadian writer Connie T. Braun, is a song cycle by Carol Ann Weaver which chronicles stories of Mennonites and others in Poland during WWII. In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of the war, Poland Parables speaks for many others whose stories are, unfortunately, all too similar. This combined CD/book project contains Braun’s poems as well as further writings by Braun and Weaver, while the CD contains Weaver’s songs based on these moving, difficult-but-restorative narratives which travel beyond Poland to Canada. Mary-Catherine Pazzano, vocals; Ben Bolt-Martin, cello; CAW, piano, soundscapes, hand drum) recorded July 2020, recorded in Kitchener, Ontario by Michael Haas of Inception Studios, Toronto. More info is available on Weaver’s website here and on Wikipedia here. Order information, here. |
Student News |
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Multiple Summer Performances for Yi-De Chen (DM) DM student Yi-De Chen received several performances of his works this summer at various festivals and symposia. His work, The Changeable Weather (2020), was performed this past June at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival). In early July, his Lights from There for Violoncello and Piano (2016) was performed at the International Symposium of New Works and Research into Contemporary Composers, hosted by Nanhua University in Taiwan. At the end of July, his recent string quartet, Diffusion (2020), commissioned by the Beo String Quartet, was premiered at the Charlotte New Music Festival. |
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Daniel Cueto (DM) wins Columbus Symphony Composition Competition Current DM student Daniel Cueto has won the Inaugural Composition Competition of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra of Indiana. His winning work “Río” will be performed by the orchestra in an in-person concert on October 17, 2021 at 3:30 pm, where he will also be officially awarded the 1000$ prize. More info and tickets at: www.csoindiana.org/music-alive-1 |
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Illinois Philharmonic Premieres Robert Rankin’s Make Them Dance On September 22nd, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and music director Stilian Kirov will perform the world premiere of DM student Robert Rankin’s Make Them Dance. Based in part off of Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism, the piece depicts the sinister and manipulative role tech companies such as Facebook and Google play in our daily lives. The premiere is part of the orchestra’s 2021 Classical Evolve concerts. Tickets and more information can be found at the orchestra’s website. |
Faculty News |
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New Works by Prof. Chi Wang Presented at Multiple Conferences Chi Wang’s Action-Reaction, for two Gametrak controllers, Max/MSP, and Kyma, was selected to be presented at three international music festivals this summer: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in New York City, the Sound and Music Computing Network Conference at the University of Turin in Turin, Italy, and the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression in Shanghai, China. Chi presented her Qin, for two custom-made performance interfaces, custom software, and Kyma at the International Computer Music Conference at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile in July. Kinesthetic Modes of Enunciation, for Computer Music Ensemble (performers: Anne Liao, Ben Cordell, Joey Miller, Kevin Kopsico, Oliver Kwapis, Shuyu Lin, and Yi-De Chen) will be presented at the international conference Audio Mostly at the University of Trento, Trento, Italy in September. This piece was written with generous support from the Indiana University Presidential Arts and Humanities Program. |
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Summer Activities for Prof. David Dzubay David Dzubay spent much of the year planning and re-planning how to run the New Music Ensemble during a pandemic. NME did meet person-to person all year, well-distanced, playing chamber music in fall 2020 and also some medium sized ensemble pieces in spring 2021. Four streaming programs were recorded for IUMusicLive during the 2020-21 academic year and are available there in the On Demand area. In summer Dzubay taught his New Music Conducting course at IU (this will be offered again in May 2022) and taught at the four-week Brevard Music Center Virtual Composition Institute, which went very well and included four orchestral reading sessions and three chamber concerts along with lessons and daily seminars. Most recently, Dzubay has been working on a band version of his flute concerto, FLOW, premiered in Mexico city just before the pandemic. Upcoming is the IU premiere of his Autumn Rivulets for soprano and orchestra, with Maestro Thomas Wilkins and the IU Philharmonic, in a program October 13 (8pm) that will be streamed live at IUMusicLive. He has also been experimenting making batons and bowls with his pandemic-inspired lathe-based woodworking hobby(!). |
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