Alumni News
Interactive Computer Music: A Duke Student Project
This is Duke Senior Clara Starkweather demonstrating one of her final projects for MUS 274S (Interactive Computer Music), taught by Scott Lindroth. In the class, students developed interactive motion-to-music systems using web cameras as well as the Kinect camera. They all wrote their own computer code using a software…
Duke Wind Symphony honors Paul Bryan
On April 18, 2013 the Duke University Wind Symphony, directed by Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, presented a concert dedicated to Professor Emeritus Paul Bryan, featuring works he conducted, arranged, and commissioned during his legendary tenure at Duke. Special guests included more than 60 Duke University Wind Symphony alumni who took the…
Academic appointments for 2013-14
Chia-yu Hsu (Ph.D. composition, 2009) has accepted an assistant professorship of Music Composition, tenure-track, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Department of Music and Theatre Arts. Angela Mace (Ph.D. musicology, 2013) has accepted an Assistant Professorship of Music History, tenure track, at the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance,…
Da (Clara) Yang named Associate Conductor of the Manhattan Wind Ensemble
Da (Clara) Yang (Trinity 2011) is Associate Conductor of the Manhatten Wind Ensemble, a fifty-person symphonic band composed of both professional and non-professional woodwind, brass and percussion players. The Manhatten Wind Ensemble performs several times each year throughout the New York City community. Yang double-majored in Music and Biology…
Lily Hirsch (Ph.D. 2006) publishes book on music in crime prevention
Lily Hirsch (Ph.D. 2006) has published her second book with the University of Michigan Press. Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (2012) is a "critical examination of the ways in which music is understood and exploited in American law enforcement and justice." Calling Hirsch "one of the most…
Prof. Anthony Kelley delivers Chautauqua Series lecture on Mary Lou Williams
Associate Professor of the Practice of Music Anthony Kelley spoke about Mary Lou Williams' jazz legacy on Oct. 30 as part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series hosted by Duke's Office of Undergraduate Education. The series brings Duke professors into residence halls for special dinners and lectures. Prof. Kelley, who…
Jean-Paul Montagnier named an "Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres"
Alumnus Jean-Paul Montagnier (Ph.D. 1994, musicology) has been made an “Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Minister of Culture, Aurelie Filippetti. This is the highest honor he could receive from the French government in recognition of almost 25 years of research on the music…
Jazz producer Creed Taylor at Duke
Grammy Award-winning record producer (and Duke alum, '54) Creed Taylor gave a public talk on October 19 in the auditorium at the Nasher Museum of Art. The multi-media retrospective, which included recordings some of the top jazz artists of the 1950's - 1970's, drew students and community members alike.…
Impromptu reunion for composers in Brooklyn
A violin recital by Sarah Plum, faculty of violin at Drake University, at the Firehouse Space in Brooklyn, NY turned into an impromptu reunion for three Duke-affiliated composers. Christopher Adler (Ph.D. 1999) sent this photo with the following text: "Sarah Plum performed works by Sidney Corbett (pictured in the…
George Lam, Documentary Composer
A year after finishing his PhD in composition, George Lam is a busy man. In June, he had three back-to-back premieres. The first was Transfiguration Sunday, an anthem he wrote for Christ Church United Methodist in Manhattan. A week later, still in Manhattan, his chamber opera, The Love Song…