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Composition Department presents First Annual Benson Forum on Creativity
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On Monday, April 7 at 8:00 pm in Kilbourn Hall, the Department of Composition will present the First Annual Warren and Patricia Benson Forum on Creativity. The event will feature a panel discussion with sculptor Arthur Ganson, artist-in-residence at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and a concert of new works for piano duo inspired by Mr. Ganson's art, which will be presented in short films during the concert.
The panel will include Allen Topolski, chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Rochester, ESM Associate Professor of Composition Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, and Susan Dodge-Peters Daiss, director of education at the Memorial Art Gallery.
Featured composers on the evening's concert are Professor Sanchez-Gutierrez and current ESM students Andrew Allen, Jennifer Bellor, Andrew Colella, Paul Coleman, Henry Henderson, Chad Latta, Feng-Hsu Lee, John Liberatore, Hiroyuki Sakurai and Symeon Waseen.
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Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez receives performances across New York state
Associate Professor of Composition Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez will receive three performances of his works at Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY in the coming months. On March 2, marimbist Makoto Nakura will present his Winik/Te for solo marimba.
On March 16, the International Contemporary Ensemble will perform de Koonig Variations and ...and of course Henry the Horse... in a lecture-recital as part of his residency with the Binghamton Philharmonic. Eastman Associate Professor of Composition Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon will also receive a performance of his Jácaras for piano trio. The concert will take place at Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY.
On April 5, marimbist Makoto Nakura, pianist Cristina Valdes and the Binghamton Philharmonic under the direction of Jose Luis Castillo will present his ...Ex Machina for marimba, piano and orchestra. This concert will take place at the Anderson Center in Binghamton, NY.
On May 7, New York-based ensemble Continuum will perform his ...and of course Henry the Horse... at the Americas Society in New York City.
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1.24.08: Howard Hanson Visiting Professor Yehudi Wyner in Residence
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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Yehudi Wyner will be in residence at Eastman next month (Feb. 12 to Mar. 7) as the 2008 Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition. During his residency, Professor Wyner will present in seminars and teach eight students privately. Following his residency, he will return to Eastman to hear Musica Nova perform two of his works on Friday, March 21 at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall.
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12.2.07: Professor Allan Schindler awarded Fromm Foundation Commission
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Allan Schindler, Professor of Composition at the Eastman School of Music and Director of the Eastman Computer Music Center, has been awarded a $10,000 commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University for a work for marimba and eight-channel live audio processing. The work, tentatively titled "Take Flight" in celebration of 100 years of aeronautical navigation, will be premiered by marimbist Nathaniel Bartlett (ESM BM 2000). Bartlett will premiere the work, perform it on international tours, and record it on Albany Records.
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Professors Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Are among New York State Music Fund Awards.
Upcoming performances of Professor Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez’s “Luciérnagas”
By the ensemble "Eighth Blackbird"
04/20/07: Ball State University; Muncie, IN
03/20/07: Univeristy of Idaho; Moscow, ID
03/06/07: Roosevelt University; Chicago, IL
Professors Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez are among this year’s beneficiaries of the New York Music Fund. The Riverside Symphony received $100,000 to support the commissioning, rehearsal, performance, recording and dissemination through radio and the internet of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Silueta como sirena featuring Mexican pop vocalist Alfredo Sánchez and The Tarab Cello Ensemble. The Binghamton Philharmonic received $61,000 to commission and perform a new double concerto for marimba, piano and orchestra by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, who will also serve as composer-in-residence for the 2007-08 season, focused on exploring classical music from Latin America.
The New York State Music Fund is an innovative program created by the Office of the New York State Attorney General to make contemporary music of all genres more available and accessible to diverse audiences and communities within New York State. Nonprofit groups from over 75 towns and cities were awarded grants totaling $19 million.
Music by Matthew Barber and Paul Colemen at Cornell
The Cornell Electroacoustic Music Center will present a conference/festival weekend from October 12th through the 16th. The event features includes a concert program on Sunday, October 15th, at 3pm in Barnes Hall on the campus of Cornell University, with music by Eastman PhD students Matthew Barber and Paul Coleman.
Premiere performance of David Liptak's QUINTET FOR PIANO AND STRING QUARTET
David Liptak's QUINTET will be premiered in Ithaca, NY, on Sunday, October 22nd, by the Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble. The program begins at 4 pm at the Unitarian Church, which is located at the corner at Buffalo and Aurora Streets, and also features the C-Major String Quintet by Franz Schubert
Upcoming Premieres of Works by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Of Gold, for a capella choiri will receive its East Coast premiere by the acclaimed choir Chanticleer on October 30, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
...and of course Henry the Horse ..., for piano 4-hands, clarinet and violin will receive its world premiere by Continuum on October 23rd at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Robert Morris's SOUND/PATH/FIELD to be Premiered on the Syracuse
University Quadrangle: 3 p.m., Sept. 24, 2006.
Morris's newest and most elaborate outdoor composition, SOUND/PATH/FIELD,
will be premiered on September, 24th, 2006 at 3 p.m. on the quadrangle of
Syracuse University. Unlike Morris's previous outdoor compositions, this
piece takes place in social space and time performed by a vast array of
musical forces including ensembles of the Setnor School of Music of
Syracuse University, the Society for New Music, and other ensembles in the
greater Syracuse area.
SOUND/PATH/FIELD was commissioned by the Society to celebrate its
thirty-fifth anniversary. Funding organizations include the National
Endowment for the Arts, the Hanson Institute for American Music, the
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and Syracuse University. The composition
features the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, the
strings of the Syracuse University Orchestra, the Syracuse University
Women's Choir, the University Singers, Syracuse Children's Chorus,
Westhill Singers, Syracuse University organist Olukola Paul Olowabi, and
members of Open Hand Theatre, and the Society for New Music chamber
ensemble
The ensembles will be stationed and play independently at various
locations on the Quad, moving from one place to another over the duration
of the piece. Two events are to occur indoors in Hendricks Chapel, a
concert piece for organ entitled "Canonical Minutes" and a composition for
the Society for New Music chamber ensemble entitled "Society Sound." The
entire piece is organized and coordinated by a cycle of notes that emanate
from the University Chimes in Crouse Hall
The audience is invited to move freely from one event to another as the
piece unfolds and attend the performances of the two concert pieces in the
chapel. They may wish to follow guides who will lead them on a musical
path through the piece. At certain times the Open Hand Theatre will
perform installations that herald special musical events here and there in
the performance space. The audience will receive programs that contain a
list of events giving the times and locations including a map of the quad.
The audience members may wish to bring something to sit on during the
performance.
There will a performance if the outdoor piece is cancelled due to poor
weather. Some of the outdoor piece, plus the two indoor pieces will be
performed in Hendricks Chapel.
For further information go to
http://ecmc.rochester.edu/rdm/SPF/SPF.html
Robert Morris will give talks on SOUND/PATH/FIELD:
Music Department, SUNY Geneseo, 12:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, 2006.
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Composition Symposium,
3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006.
Setnor School of Music, Syracuse University, 3:00 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22,
2006.
Music by Christopher Brakel in Darmstadt, Germany
Christopher Brakel has been granted a full scholarship to attend the 43.
Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany during
August 2006, where his piece for trumpet and accordion, Zeitlocher, will be
performed at the Young Composer's Forum.
54th Annual BMI Student Composer Award
Jacob Bancks, who completed his MM degree in Composition in May of 2006, has been named a winner in the 54th Annual BMI Student Composer Awards, which were presented at a reception held on May 22nd at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel in New York City. The awards recognize superior creative talent and winners receive scholarship grants to be applied toward their musical education. A complete list of winners is available at
http://bmi.com/news/200605/20060524a.asp
Performances of Music by Vera Ivanova
Vera Ivanova's Un~Now for voice solo will be performed by Melissa Attebury of the Pharos Music Project ( St. Bartholomew's Church, New York, on May 20, 2006), and Night Music for large ensemble will be performed by North/South Consonance Ensemble(Christ and St. Stephen's Church, New York on June 15).
Abigail Aresty Named a 2006 Women's Leadership Award Winner
Fifth-year Take Five scholar Abigail Aresty has been awarded the Fannie Bigelow Prize from the Rochester Center for Community Leadership. The description of the award follows: "This prize is presented to an undergraduate upperclassman chosen on the basis of her individuality and ability to form and express fearlessly, with conviction and sound judgment, her own opinions on vital topics. She also participates in extra-curricular activities because she sincerely believes in their value to the college community beyond their purely social worth".
David Liptak Receives Fairchild Award
David Liptak, professor of composition and chair of the Composition Department at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, has been named the recipient of the 2006 Lillian Fairchild Award. The annual award, which is administered by the Department of English at the University of Rochester, is presented to a Rochester area resident who has produced the best visual, literary, or musical work of art during the past year. The Fairchild Award was established by Herman L. Fairchild of the University's Department of Geology in memory of his daughter, an accomplished designer who died of tuberculosis at age 32. The first award was given in 1924. Previous winners have included Garth Fagan, director of Garth Fagan Dance; architect Frank S. Grosso; and novelist Andrea Barrett.
Prizes and Awards for 2005/2006 Academic Year
The Composition Department announces prizes and awards for the 2005/2006 academic year. The winners are Winnie Cheung (Anthony and Carolyn Donato Prize), Vera Ivanova and Scott Petersen (Belle S. Gitelman Award), Jacob Bancks (Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize), Christopher Brakel (Howard Hanson Ensemble Prize), Alex Miller (Louis Lane Prize), and Abby Aresty (Bernard Rogers Memorial Prize)
Boehmler Foundation Commission
PhD student Michaela Eremiasova has been awarded the first Boehmler Foundation Commission. This commission is provided for an Eastman composition student to create music for performance that benefits residents of Wayne County. For her project, Michaela has chosen to write a set of four pieces for unaccompanied chorus.
ASCAP Awards
ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman has announced the recipients of the 2006 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. The young composers will be recognized at the 7th Annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater in New York on May 25, 2006. Among the winners are Bajinder Sekhon, who is in the MA program as a composition major. Vera Ivanova was awarded "honorable mention" in this year's competition. For more information, see: http://www.ascap.com/press/2006/041706_gould.html.
Robert Morris is Commissioned for New Outdoors Composition
The Society for New Music of Syracuse, NY, has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support concerts and the creation and presentation of a commissioned work by composer Robert Morris. The premiere will be on the quadrangle of Syracuse University in the Fall of 2006.
Spring 2006 Performances of Music by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Mano a Mano, to be performed by Cristina Valdes on April 21st at MIT (Cambridge, Mass.) and on May 19th at Mexico City's Foro Internacional de Música Nueva
Luciérnagas, to be performed by Eighth Blackbird. 05/05/06. New York City's Look and Listen Festival
Cinco para Cuatro to be performed by Cuarteto Latinoamericano on April 9th at Los Angeles' Tamayo Restaurant
Calacas y Palomas, to be performed by Bobby Mitchell, Daniel Pesca on April 5th at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
New CD Includes Robert Morris's Ode for Piano
As part of Perspectives of New Music's special double issue devoted to
writings and music celebrating Benjamin Boretz, Open Space Magazine and
Perspectives have released a two CD album of entitled "Music Around
Benjamin Boretz: Open Spaces 2005," which contains Robert Morris's Ode
for piano solo, played by Margaret Kampmeier. Ode is based on Boretz's
piano piece, O, also recorded on the CD. (Open Space CD 20.) The score
to Ode is in the double issue, volume 43/2-44/1 (2005).
Koussevitsky Music
Foundation commission to Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez has been awarded one of five 2005 Koussevitsky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress commissions.
Performances of Music by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Winik/Té for marimba to be performed by Makoto Nakura.
Matsukata Hall, Kobe, Japan on November 29, 2005.Mano a Mano for piano to be performed by Patricia García Torres.
Weill Recital Hall, New York on November 20, 2005.
Jonathan Graybill's Nightscape to be performed as part of the Society of Composers Region V Conference
Jonathan Graybill's work, Nightscape, for string orchestra was selected for performance as part of the 2005 SCI Region V conference in Indianapolis, IN which will be held at Butler University from November 11-13, 2005.
The Sounds of Soccer
Neue Ensemble of Hannover premieres Encuentro by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, as part of Globusklänge, a concert series leading to the FIFA World Cup of 2006. The work is a collaboration with celebrated Mexican cartoonist José Ignacio Solórzano (Jis). The performance will take place in Hannover, Germany, on November 2, 2005, inside a traveling hall/museum shaped like a giant soccer ball (pictured below). The design of this hall is inspired on the geodesic domes of Buckminster Fuller.
Recording
of Vera Ivanova's music released by Musiques & Recherches
Musiques & Recherches has just released a double CD featuring the
prize winners of the 2004 Metamorphoses Competition held in Belgium:
http://www.musiques-recherches.be
The disc includes Vera Ivanova's electro-acoustic piece, Panic. Melancholy (2002), which won first prize in category “A.” More information about the CD can be found at: http://www.electrocd.com/cat.e/mr_2004.html
Recording
of Robert Morris's Music released by Albany Records
Albany Records has just released six works by Robert Morris; the CD number
is TROY779. The disc includes Morris's: Stil (2000)
and Meandering River (2001), Solungga Fang-Tzu Liu,
piano; Fourteen Little Piano Pieces (2002), Margaret Kampmeier,
piano; Out and Out (1989), Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet and Margaret
Kampmeier, piano; On the Go (1999), computer generated sounds,
Marianne Gythfeildt, clarinet (1999); and About the Same (1999),
computer generated sounds.
Christopher Brakel's Meta-Tango at the 2005 Society of Composers Student National Conference
Christopher Brakel's Meta-Tango for solo piano has been selected for performance at the 2005 Society of Composers Student National Conference, which will be held this year at West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV) on Nov. 11-12, 2005.
Performances of Music by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Cinco para Cuatro for string quartet to be performed by Cuarteto Latinoamericano.
Escuela Moderna de Música, Santiago, Chile on November 03, 2005.
Duo Canónico for guitar duo to be performed by Pablo Gómez and Magnus Andersson.
El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City on October 27, 2005.
Zohn-Muldoon at Southwestern University
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon will be guest composer and speaker at Southwestern University, in Georgetown, Texas, October 26-29, 2005. This residency is part of a year long celebration of Latin American Arts at Southwestern University.
Bent Frequency performs music by Zohn-Muldoon
Bent Frequency New Music Ensemble performed Páramo, October 2, 2005, at the EyeDrum, in Atlanta, Georgia. Páramo was one of four works selected through an international call for scores.
Guest
artist residencies in Mexico and New Zealand for Allan Schindler
Allan Schindler and experimental animator Stephanie Maxwell will present
their
film/musical composition Timestreams and present a workshop on
their collaborative
works on June 23 and 24 at the Arte Nuevo Interactiva05 festival in Merida,
Mexico (http://www.cartodigital.org/interactiva/). Between July
15 and August 5
they will be guests artists at the University of Auckland, Unitech Institute
in
Auckland, and at universities in Wellington and Christ Church, New Zealand,
presenting a series of presentations on their collaborative multimedia
works.
(Web clips from these works are available at http://www.rit.edu/~sampph/Works.html)
An article by Schindler and Maxwell,
"Animated Image, Animated Music," will
be published by YYZ Artists' publications and the 2005 Ottawa International
Animation Festival in October, 2005 in a multimedia text edited by critic
Chris Gehman and video artist Steve Reinke.
Trio de las Americas premieres Zohn-Muldoon’s Jácaras
Jácaras, commissioned by Trio de las Américas, was premiered at Instrumenta Summer Festival, in Oaxaca, México, August 4, 2005. The work will be included in their forthcoming CD.
Robert Morris' Après vous premiering at Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival
William Anderson will premier Robert Morris's solo guitar piece, Après vous at the Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival. Après vous was written for Anderson in December 2003. Friday, July 1 in 7:30 p.m, Irasburg Town Hall, Irasburg, Vermont.
Recording of David Liptak’s Music on Bridge Records
Bridge Records has released a CD recording (Bridge 9167) of music by David Liptak. The works on the recording are Broken Cries (2001) for cello octet; Ancient Songs (1992) for baritone and chamber ensemble; Serenade (2002) for alto saxophone and string orchestra; and Forlane (1998) for guitar. Performing are the Tarab Cello Ensemble; William Sharp, baritone; the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, Scott Wheeler, conductor; Chien-Kwan Lin, alto saxophone, with the strings of the Eastman Philharmonia, Bradley Lubman, conductor; and David Starobin, guitar. For more information - http://www.bridgerecords.com/9167.htm
Forthcoming
recording and score publication of Allan Schindler's Precipice
Marimbist Nathaniel Bartlett, who premiered Allan Schindler's composition
Precipice
and in recent months has performed it in Boston, New Jersey, Colorado,
Wisconson and on tour in Sweden, will be recording the work the work in
July for a surround sound SACD disc to be released later in October by
Albany records. The piece will be published by Leigh Stevens' Keyboard
Percussion publishing house at about the same time.
David Liptak’s Ancient Songs at Aspen
David Liptak’s Ancient Songs ,
for baritone voice and instrumental ensemble, is performed at the Aspen
Music Festival on July 2nd. The baritone soloist is
W. Stephen Smith, who performs with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble.
Zohn-Muldoon’s Candelabra on CD
Candelabra, a work for violoncello and piano commissioned and recorded by the Hermida-Ito Duo, was released on Quindecim Records in July, 2005.
Chicago's CUBE Ensemble plays works of Robert Morris
The CUBE ensemble will premiere
Morris's WildLife for oboe, piano, and percussion written for
CUBE, and Ode for piano solo. The concert will also include Out
and Out for clarinet and piano plus works by Stephan Wolpe and Ruth
Lemon. The concert is associated with a month-long exhibition at the Society
of paintings and drawing by Morris's daughter Rebecca Morris. Thursday,
June 9, 2005, 7 pm at the
Renaissance Society, 5811 S Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL.
Christopher Brakel's "Meta-Tango" - Upcoming New York City Premiere
The Society for Chromatic Art has selected Christopher Brakel's "Meta-Tango" for solo piano as one of five pieces to be performed at a concert of new works in New York City (Christ and St. Stephens Church) on May 31st, 2005.
Performance of David Liptak’s Chamber Concerto No. 1
David Liptak’s Chamber Concerto No. 1 , for clarinet and percussion quartet, is performed by the OSA Cuarteto de Percusion and clarinetist Julio Fresneda in Valencia, Spain, on May 27th.
Robert
Morris guest composer at the Heidelberg New Music Festival
Robert Morris, Samuel Adler and Marc Mellets have been invited to be guest
composers at the seventeenth annual New Music Festival at Heidelberg College
in Tiffin, Ohio from Friday, April 22 to Sunday, April 24, 2005. Morris's
Wye: Lynes Composed for Tintern Abbey (2003), Raudra
for flute solo (1976), and Traces for flute and piano (1991)
will be heard on various concerts that weekend. Morris will also
deliver a lecture on Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire on Sunday,
April 24, at 1 pm immediately preceding a performance of that work by
Patrice Pastore, voice, accompanied by the The Eastman New Music Ensemble
(including Eastman composition students Christopher Otto, violin/viola
and Daniel Pesca, piano) conducted by Clay Greenberg.
Kyle Blaha is First Prize Winner of the Juiliard Composition Orchestral Competition
Composer Kyle Blaha, who graduated
from Eastman in 2004 with a B.M. in Composition, has been named First
Prize Winner at the Juiliard Composition Department Orchestral Competition.
In addition to receiving a $1000 cash prize, Kyle will hear his new work
performed by the Juilliard Symphony in Alice Tully Hall on April 21.
Kyle is pursuing a Master's degreee in composition at Juilliard, and is
a student of Samuel Adler. At Eastman he studied with Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon
and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.
Sarana
Chou's Quadro Parlante at 2005 New Music Miami ISCM Festival
Sarana was one of the winners at 2004 Miami ISCM Composition Competition.
Her winning work, Quadro Parlante (for solo piano), will be performed
as part of the 2005 New Music Miami ISCM Festival at Florida International
University and The Steinway Hall in Miami, on April 14-16, 2005.
Heather
Gardner premieres Allan Schindler Diaspora
Soprano Heather Gardner, a former Eastman student now concertizing in
the San Francisco Bay area premiered Allan Schindler's composition Diaspora,
for soprano and computer generated sounds, on two Rochester concerts on
April 11 and April 18.
Ms. Gardner will be performing the work in solo recitals in California
during the summer and fall of 2005.
Allan Schindler's passe-partout in Auch, France
passe-partout by Schindler and Maxwell was featured in multiple screenings
at
the Auch Animation Festival in Auch, France on April 6-10, 2005
Allan Schindler presents work in Image Movement Sound Festival
Allan Schindler, Stephanie Maxwell and graphic artist Peter Byrne premiered their new work, Second Sight, on two ImageMovementSound festival programs on April 2 and April 9 in Rochester.
Allan Schindler's Timestreams at Northeastern University
In collaboration with Stephanie Maxwell, Schindler's Timestreams was featured on a Moving Target mixed media show at Northeastern University on March 30.
Sarana
Chou's Guitarpeggione in Brussels, Belgium
The European premiere of Sarana's Guitarpeggione (for Guitar and Arpeggione),
performed by Nicolas Deletaille and Philippe Desquesnes at L'atelier de
la Dolce Vita, Brussels, Belgium, on March 25, 2005, 8:30pm.
More information (in Dutch) <http://www.atelierdolcevita.be>.
Visiting Composer Moritz Eggert
Moritz Eggert has covered all
genres in his work - his oeuvre includes 6 operas as well as ballets and
works for dance and music theatre, often with unusual performance elements.
1997 German TV produced a feature-length film portrait about his music.
Among his recent works are the concert-length cycle for voice and piano
"Neue Dichter Lieben" featuring 20 love poems by contemporary
German poets, and the orchestra piece "Number Nine IV: Scapa Flow".
Currently he is working on a new large scale opera, "The Snail",
together with director and librettist Hans Neuenfels.
For More information about the Composer, please see his web site:
http://www.moritzeggert.de/
Performances of Music by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Subandi Little Offerings , for unaccompanied mixed choir will receive its premiere performances on March 5-12 in the San Francisco Bay Area (for specific locations visit Prof. Sanchez-Gutierrez's website at www.carlossg.com). The performing ensemble is Volti, under Robert Geary's direction.
United
States Marine Band to Perform Music by Robert Morris
Robert Morris's Cuts for large wind ensemble will be performed
on a concert of the United States Marine Band, "The President's Own,"
conducted by Captain Jason K. Fettig on a concert entitled "Short
Cuts - Music of Action and Reaction."
Sunday, March 6, 2005 at 2 pm, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University
of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Performances of Music by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
Five Pieces for Orchestra, will receive their premiere performance in Baltimore on March 6 with the Johns Hopkins Symphony, under Jed Gaylin's baton.
Eastman
Students participate in Buffalo Philharmonic's "Young Composers
Forum."
Compositions by Jonathan Graybill's and Ching-Mei Lin will be played by
the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in its annual "Young Composers
Forum" on Feb. 23, 2005. The Forum will be held in Kleinhans
Music Hall in Buffalo, New York, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The works
are: Abysmal Cry by Ching-Mei Lin and Nightscape
by Jonathan Graybill.
Performances of Music by Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez
"...Voici le bateau pour les calanques..." , for string quartet with piano will be featured at the Columbia Sinfonietta's inaugural concert in New York City's Merkin Hall on February 13, under Jeffrey Millarsky's direction.
Visiting Composer Harrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, one
of the leading European figures in contemporary music, will be visiting
Eastman from February 2 to 4 to attend a performance of his Secret
Theater by Music Nova, conducted by Brad Lubman, and to visit the
composition department. The concert will be held in Kilbourn Hall at 8
p.m. on February 2 (Wed.) and also include works by Ligeti and Kurtag.
Birtwistle will present a composition symposium on his music at 3:30 p.m.
on February 3rd (Thur.), and a masterclass with selected student composers
on the morning of February 4th (Fri.).
Photo taken at Eastman School of Music by Paul Miller.
Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's Candelabra III at Lincoln Center, New York City
Performance of Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon's Candelabra III, by the Riverside Symphony, George Rothman, Conductor. Alice Tully Hall, Saturday, January 22, 2005, 8 PM.
John
Graham performs Allan Schindler The Dying of the Light in China
During the 2004-5 academic year John Graham has performed Allan Schindler's
The Dying of the Light in Wuhan and Xiamen in China and in Miineapolis,
Tuscon and Rochester.
A
Concert of Music by Robert Morris at Bowling Green University
The New Music Ensemble of Bowling Green University presented a concert
of music by Robert Morris on December 2, 2004. The concert featured
the premiere of Morris's Wye: Line Composed for Tinturn Abbey,
for soprano and computer generated sounds written for and performed by
Deborah Norin-Kuehn, and commissioned by the MidAmerican Center for
Contemporary Music. Other works were Morris's Raudra
for flute solo, Hamiltonian Cycle: Saxophone for alto saxophone,
and Traces for flute and piano.
The concert concluded with the new music ensemble improvising on musical
materials from Morris's pieces.
Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez is Competition Finalist
Professor Sanchez-Gutierrez was chosen as one of five finalists for the Malaysian Philharmonic International Composers Competition. His piece, Afterlight, was chosen from hundreds of internationally submitted entries. Professor Sanchez-Gutierrez made the trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 23 through 27, 2004. Afterlight was conducted by the orchestra's Associate Conductor Kevin Field in the Petronas Towers. (The Petronas Towers is the tallest building in the world - 1,453 feet high). While he did not win the First Prize, Professor Sanchez-Gutierrez was one of the competition's finalists.