Composition News
Flutist Alex Sopp artist residency 2019-2020
Monday, September 23, 2019Brooklyn-based musician and artist Alex Sopp will be on campus three times this year (September 2019, February 2020, March 2020), engaging with students and the community in numerous ways, including class visits, masterclasses, informal talks, and collaborative work. As the flutist of yMusic,... Read More »
Sid Richardson (Ph.D Composition, 2018) at Tanglewood Music Center
Thursday, August 22, 2019Tanglewood premiered two movements of Richardson's dissertation piece Red Wind, which was recorded with Duke Performances in April 2017, and features professor Nathaniel Mackey's poetry. The premiere took place on July 21 at 10am in the Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. Other... Read More »
Graduate composer Dayton Kinney is a finalist for the 2019 Rapee Sagarik Composition Prize
Tuesday, July 30, 2019Kinney is headed to Thailand to attend the festival at the College of Music, Mahidol University, where her string quartet, “Hand Carved Names and Railroad Tracks,” will be premiered. This is a busy summer of premieres for Kinney. On July 12, her “Obsessive Snapshots” premiered at... Read More »
Incoming composition fellow Brittany Green receives JACK Quartet Studio Commission
Tuesday, July 30, 2019Described by Chicago Classical Review as “cinematic in the best sense” and “searing,” Brittany J. Green’s music is centered around facilitating collaborative, intimate musical spaces that ignite visceral responses. The intersection between sound, movement, and text serves as the focal point of... Read More »
Graduate composer Eren Gümrükçüoğlu's work premiered at SICPP (Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice)
Tuesday, July 30, 2019The US premiere of Gümrükçüoğlu's "Lattice Scattering" (2018) for flute, piano, and electronics (performers: Rachel Beetz - flute & Richard Valitutto - piano) took place on Saturday, June 22, 2019 in the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall. Other works on the program included pieces by... Read More »
JACK Quartet recording of James Budinich's "Lines, Breaks, and White Spaces"
Monday, June 24, 2019James writes, "The last two years I've been working on a new string quartet, Lines, Breaks, and White Spaces, with the JACK Quartet -- they've been amazing collaborators, it's been such a pleasure seeing them bring my piece to life. The recording's up now on Soundcloud, thanks to the... Read More »
Bryan Christian's (Ph.D. composition, 2015) new CD, "Each flows into the other," released by Irritable Hedgehog Music
Monday, June 24, 2019Commissioned and recorded with the support of New Music USA, "Each flows into the other" is available digitally or as a 2 CD album. From the album's liner notes by ethnomusicologist Rebecca Lentjes: "Dual sound worlds flowing into and out of each other, converging and then... Read More »
Graduate composer Eren Gümrükçüoğlu participates in June in Buffalo conference
Wednesday, June 12, 2019Presented by the Department of Music and The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music, June in Buffalo, a festival and conference dedicated to composers, took place June 3-9 2019 at the University at Buffalo. An invited composer, Eren's Bozkir was performed by Mivos Quartet... Read More »
Graduate composer Dayton Kinney is an invited finalist for the 15th Thailand International Composers Competition “Rapee Sagarik Composition Prize”
Monday, May 6, 2019Kinney's piece "Hand Carved Names and Railroad Tracks" will be premiered by the Grey Matter Ensemble on August 9, 2019 at MACM hall. One winner will be awarded an honorarium of $1,500 at the conclusion of the festival and competition. The Thailand International Composition Festival (... Read More »
New digital release of Stephen Jaffe's Light Dances: Chamber Concerto No. 2
Tuesday, April 9, 2019This performance of Light Dances by the Da Capo Chamber Players (Bridge Records) gives equal measure to the composition's poetry and electrifying energy. Jaffe writes: "I love to work on chamber music intensively, I love to rethink ensembles, and I love to seek new musical ground,... Read More »