Graduate News
Minato Sakamoto wins 8SW Composer Competition 2020
Tuesday, May 26, 2020Sakamoto's Rondo Americano for flute, viola, and cello won First Place in 8SW (8 Strings & Whistle) Composer Competition. 8 Strings & Whistle will premiere the piece in New York City in Fall 2020 and perform it several times throughout the next season. Minato Sakamoto... Read More »
Congratulations to our 2020 Ph.D. Graduates
Monday, May 4, 2020Graduate Degrees Conferred Elizabeth Anne Crisenbery, Ph.D. (Musicology) Dissertation: “Performing Fascism: Opera, Politics, and Masculinities in Fascist Italy, 1935-1941” Committee Chair: Bryan Gilliam Sarah A Curzi, Ph.D. (Composition) Dissertation piece: Lilacs: Digital Songs and... Read More »
Graduate Composition Fellows win 2020 Charles Ives Scholarships
Tuesday, February 25, 2020Ling and Mulligan have received two of only six Charles Ives Scholarships given this year. This is the first time two fellows in the Duke graduate composition program have been awarded this distinction in the same year. The scholarships, in the amount of $7500 each, will be... Read More »
Premieres by Duke composition fellows James Budinich and Jason Mulligan
Tuesday, February 4, 2020James Budinich's "Plexus: a work in knots" is an electroacoustic score commissioned by Princess Grace Award winning choreographer Gabrielle Lamb for her own company, Pigeonwing Dance. The new, evening-length work will take place on February 7 at the Gerald Lynch... Read More »
Eren Gümrükçüoglu's new composition to be featured at the Taproot New Music Festival (UC Davis)
Tuesday, January 14, 2020Gümrükçüoglu's new piece, Optimist (to a 1958 text by Nazim Hikmet), was written for the occasion and will have its world premiere at the Taproot Festival by the Quince Ensemble on January 30, 2020. During the festival, Gümrükçüoglu will also give a... Read More »
Dayton Kinney named Semi-Finalist for the American Prize
Tuesday, January 14, 2020Graduate composer Dayton Kinney has been selected as a semi-finalist by The American Prize for the 2020 Composition - Instrumental Chamber Music (student division) competition for her piece "Hand Carved Names and Railroad Tracks." Her piece will in the running for the finalist and winner... Read More »
Graduate composer James Budinich's "Tiled Fields" premiered by the Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra
Tuesday, December 3, 2019About Tiled Fields, Budinich writes: Tiled Fields, whose name stems from a misreading of Joan Miró’s painting Tilled Fields, creates successive sections that obsessively build on the same material. While writing Tiled Fields, I drew inspiration from Miró’s combination of a freely composed... Read More »
UNC Symphony Orchestra premieres new work by Maxwell Ramage
Tuesday, December 3, 2019Max Ramage is a musicology graduate student in the Duke University Department of Music. A native of Durham, he holds degrees from Yale and Indiana University and has won a number of honors for his compositions. Taiga, premiered by the UNC Symphony Orchestra, is an... Read More »
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 »
Georgiary Bledsoe (Ph.D. musicology, 2002) participates in Videmus conference at the University of Michigan
Thursday, August 22, 2019Georgiary Bledsoe will participate in a panel on September 14 led by Mark Lomax which explores new modes of youth music education using scholarly perspectives. Anthony Kelley, Associate Professor of the Practice of Music in the Duke University Department of Music, and Karen Walwyn,... Read More »