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Upcoming Events – April
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* Starred events are REQUIRED for IU composition students.)
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Hammer and Nail – New Chamber Music for Saxophones
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A Collaboration between the Departments of Composition and Woodwinds
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Saturday, Apr. 7 | 1:00pm | MC070
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NOTUS: Contemporary Vocal Ensemble – “The Solitude of the Spirit”
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Dominick DiOrio, conductor
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Tuesday, Apr. 10 | 8:00pm | Auer Hall
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Stang:
O felix anima (2016, premiere)
Alcala:
Song of the Night (2009)
Bodor:
Two Songs of Solitude (2017, premiere)
Chuaqui:
Qui confidunt in Domino (2016)
Walsh:
I See Words in Color (2017, premiere)
DiOrio:
An Equal Humanity (2013)
Smith:
Blessed Assurance (1995)
Sandström:
Lobet den Herrn (2003)
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Composition Forum
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Ge Wang, guest composer
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Wednesday, Apr. 11 | 4:00pm | MC066
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Wind Ensemble
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Stephen W. Pratt, conductor; David Dzibay, composer
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Sunday, Apr. 15 | 3:00pm | Musical Arts Center
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Shostakovich/Hunsberger:
Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1954)
J. S. Bach/Kimura:
Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578
Dzubay:
Gloriana, Frangipana (2018, premiere)
Grainger:
Lincolnshire Posy (1937)
C. Nelson:
Wayfaring Stranger (2014)
Sousa/Fennell:
King Cotton March (1895)
Gershwin/Martino:
A Gershwin Fantasy (c.1991)
R. Nelson:
Rocky Point Holiday (1966)
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Master's Recital
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Luis Mario Ruelas Romo, composition
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Sunday, Apr. 15 | 8:00pm | MC070
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Student Composition Recital
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Monday, Apr. 16 | 8:00pm | Auer Hall
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Composition Forum
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Alex Mincek, guest composer
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Wednesday, Apr. 18 | 4:00pm | MC066
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Philharmonic Orchestra
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Gilbert Varga, guest conductor
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Wednesday, Apr. 18 | 8:00pm | Musical Arts Center
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Kodály:
Dances of Galánta (1933)
C. Baker:
Shadows – Four Dirge-Nocturnes (1990)
Respighi:
Roman Festivals (1928)
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New Music Ensemble
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David Dzubay, director; Alex Mincek, guest composer; Darío Martín Garcia, Matthew Schultheis, and Noah Sonderling, piano soloists
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Thursday, Apr. 19 | 7:00pm | Auer Hall
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Mincek:
Chamber Concerto (2013)
Ligeti:
Piano Concerto (1985/86)
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Senior Recital
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Will (June Young) Kim, Composer
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Saturday, Apr. 21 | 7:00pm | Recital Hall
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Computer Music Recital
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Center for Electronic and Computer Music – John Gibson and Jeffrey Hass, directors
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Sunday, Apr. 22 | 8:00pm | Auer Hall
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Master's Recital
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Amin Sharifi, composer
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Thursday, Apr. 26 | 7:00pm | Recital Hall
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Senior Recital
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Ray Kim, composer
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Saturday, Apr. 28 | 7:00pm | MC066
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News – Students
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Rotolo to receive performance at NYCEMF alongside works by IU alumni & faculty |
Kyle Peter Rotolo's
NO-MORE, TOO-LATE, FAREWELL, for flute and electronics (2017) will receive a performance at this summer's
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. Also to be heard on the festival are works by IU alumni Nic Chuaqui, Chris Poovey, Philip Sink, & faculty Drs. Jeffrey Hass and John Gibson.
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Corey K. Rubin Accepts Teaching Position for 2018-19 |
Corey K. Rubin has accepted an adjunct faculty position at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he will teach composition, music theory, and counterpoint for the 2018-19 academic year. Rubin is now completing his final semester of coursework in the doctoral program at IU.
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News – Alumni
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Iddo Aharony accepts tenure-track position at Colorado College
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Iddo Aharony (M.M. in Computer Music Composition, 2007) has accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship in Music Technology at Colorado College. Iddo has studied computer music at the Jacobs School of Music with Jeffrey Hass, and composition with Sven-David Sandström and Don Freund.
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Brian Ciach wins 2018 American Prize
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Brian Ciach (DM '11) has won the 2017-18
American Prize in Orchestral Composition for his piece
The Einstein Slide, from the work
Collective Uncommon: Seven Orchestral Studies on Medical Oddities. A recording of the work can be found
here.
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New release of Symphony no. 11 by Lee Johnson
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Lee Johnson M.M. 1989 has released his new
"IMPERFECTUM" symphony no. 11, as recorded by the Georgia Film Orchestra, on the
Jammates Classical label. In addition, Lee Johnson has enjoyed performances of his
"Dead" Symphony no. 6, based on the music of the Grateful Dead, with the Baltimore Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the California Symphony, on Sirius/XM, NPR and others, as well as a performance at the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz, CA, conducted by Marin Alsop. Lee Johnson will be releasing
"Civility" symphony no. 7 in September, 2018. This work features a narration recorded by former President Jimmy Carter in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations 1948.
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New performances and a premiere for David Jones
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During the month of February, "
Bone Moan" by David P. Jones (DM - 1995) was performed twice by Ronald Barron (former Principal Trombone, Boston Symphony Orchestra): once at Univ. of Maryland Trombone Day accompanied by the Univ. of Maryland Trombone Choir, Matthew Guiford (cond); and again at Delaware Trombone Day, with the forces of the Univ. of Delaware Trombone Choir, Dr. Bruce Tychinski (cond).
In October 2017, Dr. Jones' "
Three Mountain Pictures" (soprano sax + piano) was premiered by Carolyn Bryan (IU - DM - 1995) and Tom Pearsall at Carter Recital Hall, Georgia Southern Univ., Statesboro, GA. The following month, he conducted the premiere of his own composition, "
Streaming", with the Peninsula College Jazz Ensemble in Maier Concert Hall, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA.
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Aspen Festival and Louisville Orchestra perform new work by Eric Nathan
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Eric Nathan's
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the space of a door"
for orchestra, commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will be performed at the
Aspen Music Festival in July and by The
Louisville Orchestra with conductor Ken-David Masur in November 2018. Nathan will serve as guest composition faculty at Yellow Barn's Young Artist Program this June.
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Regards,
David Dzubay, Chair
Composition Department
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
ddzubay@indiana.edu
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