Newsletter 11-2016 – Composition Department

Upcoming Events – December

(* Starred events are REQUIRED for IU composition students.)

*New Music Ensemble

David Dzubay, director; Beomseok Yoo, alumnus guest composer; Vera Quartet

Thursday, Dec. 1 | 8:00pm | Auer Hall

Yoo: On the Street Corners (2013)
Yoo: The Way to Sokcho (2016, premiere)
Deutsch: Mad Dog (2011)

Wind Ensemble

Ryan Yahl, conductor

Friday, Dec. 2 | 2:30pm | Auer Hall

Balmages: Fanfare Canzonique (2003)
Montoya: Light the Fuse (2014)
Persichetti: Serenade No. 1 For Ten Wind Instruments, Op. 1 (1929)
Lauridsen/Reynolds: O magnum mysterium (2003)
Markowski: joyRiDE (2005-14)
Reed: Russian Christmas Music (1944)

* Computer Music and Video Recital

John Gibson and Jeffrey Hass, directors

Sunday, Dec. 4 | 8:00pm | Auer Hall

All-Campus Band

Andrew D. Chybowski, conductor; Sean Phelan, conductor

Tuesday, Dec. 6 | 8:00pm | Musical Art Center

Curiale: Joy (1995)
Saucedo: In Perfect Silence, I Often Gaze at the New Stars (2012)
Colgrass: The Beethoven Machine (2003)
Ticheli: An American Elegy from Lohengrin (2000)
Grundman: An Irish Rhapsody (1971)
Reed: The Hounds of Spring (1980)
Fillmore: The Klaxon (1930)

Philharmonic Orchestra

Federico Cortese, conductor

Wednesday, Dec. 7 | 8:00pm | Musical Art Center

Ligeti: Concert românesc (Romanian Concerto) (1951, rev. 1996)
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
Bartók: Miraculous Mandarin Suite (1927)

Laptop Ensemble “informance”

John Gibson, Director
Performances and Q & A by the laptop ensemble class.
Find out what this new medium for electronic music is all about.

Thursday, Dec. 8 | 9:00pm | MC066

News – Current Students

IU composer receives commission from Tehran Flute Choir

Tehran Flute Choir, Asia’s largest flute ensemble, established byFirouzeh Navai in 2015, has commissioned Amin Sharifi to write a newwork for its 2017-2018 season. The composition will have its premiereperformance on April 14, 2017 (Roudaki Hall, Tehran). Website:www.tehranflutechoir.com

Three IU Composers will be featured at 2017 Red Note Music Festival

Three IU composers Alex Berko, Nicholas Landrum, and Chris Neiner have been selected as composition fellows for the 2017 Red Note Music Festival. All three students will have pieces performed by the resident ensemble, the Del Sol String Quartet and loadbang, and work with distinguished guest composer Sydney Hodkinson, as well as faculty members Martha Horst, Roy Magnuson, and Carl Schimmel. The festival runs from March 27th-29th, and is hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.