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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 »
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 »
R. Larry Todd is featured in BBC Radio 3's "Cristiani and Her Cello" with Kate Kennedy
Monday, June 24, 2019A cello virtuoso, there is relatively little known about the Parisian-born Cristiani today. Felix Mendelssohn dedicated his famous Song Without Words for cello and piano to her, and it is this piece that Kennedy and Professor Todd discuss. Professor Todd also... 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 »
2019 Graduates and Award Winners
Monday, May 13, 2019Undergraduate Degrees Conferred First Major Lily Chaw Distinction for her recital and thesis: “Connecting the American Jazz and 19th Century Virtuosic Piano Traditions” Second Major Joshua Azza Connor Scott Pfeiffer Interdepartmental (with Neuroscience) Dalton Akeim... Read More »
Ciompi Quartet in Taiwan, April 2019
Monday, May 13, 2019The group's first stop was the Chimei Museum in Tainan, a two hour train ride from Taipei. The Chimei Museum houses one of the world's finest collection of string instruments, including instruments by the Stradivari and Guarneri families. The next day (April 26) the Ciompi... Read More »
John Brown serves on jury for 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music
Monday, May 13, 2019In addition to Reid's p r i s m, the other two finalists were Still, by James Romig and Sustain, by Andrew Norman. Read the full description at pulitzer.org. John Brown is Director of the Jazz Program and Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University. The other... Read More »
2019 Seniors in Performance
Wednesday, May 8, 2019Featured Seniors available on Soundcloud audio playlist for your enjoyment: 1. Variations on a Theme by Glinka Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Senior: *Andrew Eurdolian, Oboe [with the Duke Wind Symphony, Verena Moesenbichler-Bryant, cond.]... 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 »