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October 2021 Newsletter
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Alumnus Nickitas Demos (MM 1989) Wins 2021 American Prize in Composition Nickitas Demos of Atlanta GA is the winner of the 2021 American Prize in Composition, in the professional instrumental chamber music division, for “Frontlash.” Demos was selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United States. The American Prize National Nonprofit Competitions in the Performing Arts is the nation’s most comprehensive series of non-profit competitions in the musical and theater arts, unique in scope and structure, designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings. The American Prize was founded in 2009 and is awarded annually in many areas of the performing arts. Demos graduated in 1988 with an MM in Composition from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His principal teachers were Donald Erb and Eugene O’Brien. He holds a DMA in Music Composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music and is currently Professor and Coordinator of Composition Studies at the Georgia State University School of Music in Atlanta, GA. |
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Felipe Tovar-Henao (DM ’20) appointed as 2021-22 CCCC Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chicago Felipe Tovar-Henao has been recently appointed as the 2021-22 Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chicago’s Center for Contemporary Composition (CCCC). Tovar-Henao will develop new works to be performed by the Grossman Ensemble and Quatuor Diotima, as well as other guest artists during the upcoming season. He will also teach an undergraduate course, provide undergraduate music lessons, and participate in the Center’s workshops and events. |
Faculty News |
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Recent Recognitions for Prof. Emeritus Claude Baker Claude Baker, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus of Composition, has been awarded a residency (his second) during the fall 2021 session at the Bogliasco Foundation’s Study Center near Genoa. An American nonprofit with a program in Italy, the Bogliasco Foundation “grants one-month Fellowships to individuals of all ages and nationalities who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in the arts and humanities.” This past June, at the final concert of the Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s 2020-21 season, he was also presented with the A.I. duPont Composers Award. Given annually by the DSO since 1985, this prize “recognizes a distinguished living American composer or conductor who has made a significant contribution in the field of contemporary classical music.” |
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World Premiere of Orchestrations by Aaron Travers Aaron Travers, Associate Professor of Composition, will have his orchestration of Edvard Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, op. 43, premiered at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music under the direction of Aik Khai Pung. The performance will take place October 22, 2021 at 7:30pm in the Corbett Auditorium. In other news, Prof. Travers recently completed the recording of his flute and cello duo, Stillwater Marsh, performed by Emlyn Johnson and Daniel Ketter, and recorded by Prof. Jamie Tagg. He is currently working on a new commission for the oboe and guitar duo MoMArt, featuring oboist Yasna Brandstaetter and guitarist Maja Radovanlija. |
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