Composition News
North Carolina Symphony reads new works by graduate composers Yuxin Ouyang and Maximiliano Amici
Monday, May 14, 2018The reading and archival recording session took place on May 9, 2018, in Meymandi Hall (Raleigh, NC) with the North Carolina Symphony and Music Director Grant Llewellyn. This opportunity is the second in an ongoing collaboration between the Department of Music's graduate composition program... Read More »
Graduate composers James Budinich and Brooks Frederickson awarded a project grant from the Office of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies
Tuesday, April 17, 2018The team of Budinich, Frederickson, and Rebecca Uliasz (a graduate student in Computational Media, Arts, and Cultures) will use techniques of interactive media, improvisation, and community art-making with the assistance of a number of guest experts to present... Read More »
Carl Schimmel (Ph.D. Composition, 2008) receives 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship
Thursday, April 5, 2018Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Illinois State University, Schimmel has also won Columbia University’s Joseph Bearns Prize, the Lee Ettelson Award, and the 2017 Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. From the Guggenheim Foundation'... Read More »
NC Symphony leaders visit Music 690: Music for Large Ensemble
Thursday, March 22, 2018On March 22, 2018, the graduate composition seminar Music for Large Ensemble (Music 690) hosted a discussion with Ben Gernon (Principal Guest Conductor, BBC Philharmonic and Guest Conductor, North Carolina Symphony), and Martin Sher, (Vice President and General Manager of the North Carolina... Read More »
Alumni Profile: Nathaniel Stookey
Tuesday, February 27, 2018Nathaniel Stookey received his PhD in Composition from Duke in 2003. Currently based in San Francisco, he has collaborated with many of the world’s great orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The... Read More »
Graduate composers Yuxin Ouyang and Maximiliano Amici to have works recorded by the North Carolina Symphony
Thursday, December 21, 2017The reading and archival recording session will take place on May 9, 2018, in Meymandi Hall (Raleigh, NC) with the North Carolina Symphony and Music Director Grant Llewellyn. This opportunity is the second in an ongoing collaboration between the Department of Music's graduate... Read More »
Composers Admitted to Summer Fellowship Programs
Thursday, December 21, 2017Scott Lee has been accepted as a Composition Fellow at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Music Festival, and Sid Richardson has accepted the invitation of the Aspen Music Festival to join its program as a Composition Fellow. Both of the programs are among the most known programs for... Read More »
Dan Ruccia (PhD Composition, 2013) releases "Scratch Slice Jag" on Out & Gone Music
Tuesday, October 10, 2017Recorded live at the Carrack Art Museum in Durham, North Carolina, in October 2016, Scratch Slice Jag is the natural outgrowth of the collaboration between Bishop and Ruccia. The two were frequent collaborators when Bishop lived in Durham from 2012 to 2015, and they quickly developed a natural... Read More »
BRITISH MUSIC & EUROPE in the age of Brexit
Monday, September 25, 2017All symposium events, including concerts, are free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. For inquiries, contact Philip Rupprecht: philipr@duke.edu Paper Abstracts Common Currencies (Philip Rupprecht) Friday, November 3 PANEL 1... Read More »
Penka Kouneva (Ph.D., Composition, 1997) inducted into Duke Graduate School's Few-Glasson Alumni Society
Wednesday, August 30, 2017Penka is generously supporting the graduate composition program at Duke through a recurring commission award that allows current students to compose works to be rehearsed and recorded by the North Carolina Symphony. Scott Lee, one of two graduate students to receive a commission in 2016, won... Read More »