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A group of JSoM students were filmed performing Camille Saint-Saëns “Carnival of the Animals” as part of an education outreach project directed towards elementary schools in rural Indiana. Combined with voice-over recordings by Music Education professor Brent Gault and the work of film-maker Garrett Poortinga of Green Hat Media LLC, the project will be releasing… Read more »

Second-year doctorate student Brian McDonie joined the Jacobs School Music Community Engagement Initiative as project manager in the fall of 2019. Originally from Lancaster, PA, Brian previously served as a U.S. Marine Musician for four years, performing in mainland Japan, Okinawa, Malaysia, Thailand, Guam, and the eastern United States. While pursuing a doctorate of music… Read more »

“I want him to be a little vampire! I have my own beliefs!” Sixteen middle schoolers were enjoying a playful debate mid-way through day two of IU Jacobs grad student Alex Tedrow’s composition workshop. Underlining the impact of music in film, Tedrow had shown two separate groups of students the same video clip set to… Read more »

Music composition and chemistry major Walker Smith, winner of the 2022 IU Jacobs OECD Innovation Competition, is creator and master of ceremonies in his one-man show, The Sound of Molecules. An innovative musical composition that turns molecular data sets into sound, Walker marries his passions for music and chemistry into a performance that is both… Read more »

Musical Time, a brand new recital series offering community focused programs, recently debuted in Nashville, Indiana, at the Brown County Art Guild. With eight pianists performing Mazurkas and duos, the evening’s dance theme was accompanied by featured paintings of Brown County’s famous scenery. Project co-leads Rachel Chen and Hyeseon Jin, both doctoral students at IU… Read more »

Twisted Spruce, a covid project turned global, has arrived in the rural communities of Indiana. A collection of musicians celebrating “no artist left behind”, the 2021 World Ensemble underscores a message of global community, diversity, and #BuildingTogether. Intersecting with both high school and elementary students, project director and guitarist Nathan Fischer is collecting audio samples… Read more »

The Indiana University School of Public Health and Center for Rural Engagement are hosting a Wellness Fair,  offering free health services and resources at the Washington County YMCA on April 9th from 10am to 3pm. Attendees will have the opportunity to partake in free health screenings, checking blood pressure, cholesterol, blood glucose, body mass index,… Read more »

The Amity Trio is roaring into Indiana, bringing a full eight days of activities to Bloomington and surrounding rural communities. The group will be joined next week for a variety of performances and workshops featuring Nur Slim’s opera Lucrecia y el Canto de los Dudasaurios, a special appearance by IU alum and tubist Richard White… Read more »

More than seventy high school band students visited the Jacobs School of Music on the Indiana University Bloomington campus last week to celebrate a co-commission by the National Band Association Chapter at IU (NBA) and high school band programs in the Indiana communities of Paoli, Salem, Nashville, and Huntingburg. The high school students participated in… Read more »

On February 8th, high school band students from communities in south central Indiana will bus to the Jacobs School of Music on the Indiana University Bloomington campus for a day of music making, community building, and mentorship. This is just one part of a larger project celebrating an exciting co-commission by the National Band Association… Read more »