Kinney 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 MATCH - Midtown Arts & Theater Center Houston, as part of the Space City New Music Festival. read more about Graduate composer Dayton Kinney is a finalist for the 2019 Rapee Sagarik Composition Prize »
Described 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 these musical spaces, often questioning and redefining the relationships between these elements. Green’s music has been featured at New York City Electronic Music Festival, SPLICE Institute, Chicago Impromptu Fest, and West Fork New… read more about Incoming composition fellow Brittany Green receives JACK Quartet Studio Commission »
The 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 Steve Reich and Michael Finnissy, the Composer-in-Residence for SICPP 2019.More about SICPP 2019Photo: composer Gümrükçüoğlu (center), with Beetz (l) and Valitutto (r) read more about Graduate composer Eren Gümrükçüoğlu's work premiered at SICPP (Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice) »
James 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 quartet (Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman, John Pickford Richards, and Jay Chop-Cheese Campbell) and also to the Duke University Department of Music and Duke Performances for this… read more about JACK Quartet recording of James Budinich's "Lines, Breaks, and White Spaces" »
A 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 introduces Kennedy to another piece, still unpublished, which was dedicated to Cristiani, and is heard for the first time in this radio feature. Listen to "Cristiani and Her Cello" R. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences… read more about R. Larry Todd is featured in BBC Radio 3's "Cristiani and Her Cello" with Kate Kennedy »
Commissioned 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 diverging, and allowing expressivity to rise to the surface. Not quite a sound environment or installation, yet more immersive than a musical composition relying on conventional notions of teleology, such that the listener might be… read more about Bryan Christian's (Ph.D. composition, 2015) new CD, "Each flows into the other," released by Irritable Hedgehog Music »
Presented 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 on June 7. Of Bozkir (2016), Eren writes "This piece is inspired by the endless steppes that span Eurasia—from Eastern Turkey until Western China. The title Bozkır literally means ‘steppes’ in… read more about Graduate composer Eren Gümrükçüoğlu participates in June in Buffalo conference »
Undergraduate Degrees Conferred First Major Lily ChawDistinction 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 George Minor Roy AuhDaniel Matthew Bass-Blue, IIChristopher Clay CampJack Kenzo ClaarAaron… read more about 2019 Graduates and Award Winners »
The 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 led a chamber music master class at the Taipei National University of the Arts. On April 27, they performed a concert at the Eslite Performance Hall in Taipei which included works by Dvorak and Debussy with remarks… read more about Ciompi Quartet in Taiwan, April 2019 »
In 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 distinguished jurors on the committee for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music were Scott Cantrell (Classical music critic, Dallas, TX), David Harrington (Artistic Director/Violinist, Kronos Quartet), and… read more about John Brown serves on jury for 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Music »
Featured 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.] ________________________________________________________________2. A Lincolnshire Posy [3. Rufford Park Poachers] Composer: Percy Grainger Senior: *Andrew Eurdolian, Oboe Senior: *Samantha Woog, Bassoon [… read more about 2019 Seniors in Performance »
Kinney'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 (TICF) was established with the goal of improving the standard of Composition Education in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Founded in 2005 by the award-winning Thai composer Narong Prangcharoen, TICF has been the growing focus for… read more about Graduate composer Dayton Kinney is an invited finalist for the 15th Thailand International Composers Competition “Rapee Sagarik Composition Prize” »
Candace Bailey is Professor of Music at North Carolina Central University. Her NHC project is Women, Music, and the Performance of Gentility in the Mid-Nineteenth Century South (Mellon-HBCU Fellowship), under contract with the University of Illinois Press. Professor Bailey was a 2016-17 Fellow in the Franklin Humanities Institute's Digital Humanities Lab at Duke.Giuseppe Gerbino is Professor of Music at Columbia University. His NHC project is … read more about Two musicology alumni named 2019-2020 National Humanities Center Fellows »
Dr. Parkins’s eighth solo recording features late German Romantic music (Max Reger and Richard Strauss) and works by American composers (Florence Price, Kent Kennan, Robert Ward, Adophus Hailstork, and Dan Locklair). Among them are world premiere recordings of three pieces as well as first recordings of three additional works in organ solo versions. The title track is an organ transcription by Dr. Parkins of the “Dance of the Seven Veils” from Strauss’s opera Salome. Available as a CD or as a download at www.gothic… read more about Robert Parkins's new CD, "Salome's Dance," released by Loft Recordings »
This 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, something resembling a poetry--where listeners may discover new flights of lyrical expression and an arc of narrative: the poetry of sound and form, fused!"Light Dances is available for download from BridgeRecords.… read more about New digital release of Stephen Jaffe's Light Dances: Chamber Concerto No. 2 »
Known for her elegant and playful choreography, Gabrielle Lamb is the recipient of a Princess Grace Award for Choreography and recently participated in ABT’s inaugural Choreographic Incubator. In this world premiere collaboration with composer James Budinich, Lamb adapts the tensile intricacy of her movement to respond to Budinich's musical explorations of simplicity. The CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), an innovative residency program for New York City choreographers, celebrates its fifth anniversary with a series of… read more about Graduate composer James Budinich collaborates with Pigeonwing Dance for CUNY Dance Initiative »
Zeller will deliver his presentation at the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music annual conference on April 6 and at the Syntagma Musicum 1619-2019 International Musicological Conference on April 8, 2019.Abstract: The four-hundredth anniversary of Praetorius’s De Organographia offers a unique opportunity to reevaluate our knowledge of the violin family in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Praetorius’s oft quoted statement that he need not deal further with the violin family… read more about Musicology Ph.D. candidate Matthew Zeller to deliver presentations at the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music annual conference (Durham, NC) and Syntagma Musicum 1619-2019 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) »
Listen to Martin Bandyke's in-depth interview with Thomas Brothers.Help! The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration was released by W.W. Norton in October 2018. It argues compellingly that a cooperative dynamic was the primary reason for the success and longevity of both the Beatles and Duke Ellington. “A historically masterly and musically literate unraveling of some of the most-admired credits in 20th-century popular music....This is musicology… read more about New radio interview with Professor Thomas Brothers about his book, "Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration" »
In addition to preparing for his new faculty position, Lee is currently working on a commission from the Tanglewood Music Festival for brass ensemble, to be premiered this summer at the Festival. He has also been commissioned by the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra (ASYO) for an orchestral piece to be premiered in May 2020. Lee will also serve as the Composer in Residence for ASYO for the 2019-2020 season. read more about Scott Lee (Ph.D. composition, 2018) appointed Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Florida (UF) »
R. Larry Todd co-authored Beethoven’s Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World with Marc Moskovitz. The book, published by Boydell & Brewer, discusses the cultural and historical contexts of Beethoven's cello sonatas. It is the first English-language book to examine these works in depth. Every year, Choice publishes a list of Outstanding Academic Titles that were reviewed during the previous calendar year. The list is selective, containing … read more about R. Larry Todd's "Beethoven’s Cello" awarded the 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award »
R. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor and a leading Mendelssohn scholar. His books include Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, described as “likely to be the standard biography for a long time to come” (New York Review of Books), and Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, which received the ASCAP Slonimsky Prize. A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and National Humanities Center, he edits the Master Musician Series (Oxford University Press). He studied piano at the Yale School of Music and… read more about New video: R. Larry Todd performs Mendelssohn's Fantasy in F-sharp minor, Op. 28 »
Music & Letters was first published in January 1920. With the journal's 100th anniversary approaching, Music & Letters conducted a prize competition during 2018 to find the best original articles in musicology. Geoffroy-Schwinden's "Music as Feminine Capital..." and the other five winning essays will be published in a special anniversary issue of the journal in its centenary volume in 2019, and each of the winning authors will additionally receive a monetary prize. Of her… read more about Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden (Ph.D. musicology, 2015) wins Music & Letters 100th Anniversary Competition »
Adapted from the publisher's webpage. A detailed and moving account of the life of Anneliese Landau, who earned a PhD in musicology in 1930 and lectured on early German radio, breaking new ground in a developing medium. After the Nazis forced the firing of all Jews in broadcasting in early 1933, Landau worked for a time in the Berlin Jewish Culture League (Jüdischer Kulturbund), a closed cultural organization created by and for Jews in negotiation with Hitler's regime. But, in 1939, she would… read more about Lily Hirsch's (Ph.D. musicology, 2006) new book "Anneliese Landau's Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California" »
Fancher's performance will take place on March 9 at Western Carolina University, with the WCU Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Margi Underwood. The Duke student saxophone quartet DUSQ, coached by Fancher, was also accepted to perform Ex Machina by Marc Mellits at the conference. DUSQ is Matthew Tedesco, soprano saxophone, Bilva Sanaba, alto saxophone, Glenn Huang, tenor saxophone, and Josh Engel, baritone saxophone. read more about Susan Fancher and the Duke Student Saxophone Quartet will perform at the North American Saxophone Alliance region 7 conference »
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the HWW consists of humanities centers at 15 research universities in the Midwest and beyond. It aims to create new avenues for collaborative research, teaching, and scholarship in the humanities, particularly in areas of inquiry that require cross-institutional cooperation. One of the HWW’s initiatives is to offer summer workshops for pre-doctoral humanities students interested in exploring nonacademic careers. As part of her fellowship, Crisenbery will participate in a three-week… read more about Musicology Ph.D. candidate Liz Crisenbery has been selected a National Humanities Without Walls (HWW) Pre-Doctoral Fellow. »
Composer Brooks Frederickson’s debut album Small Works (New Amsterdam Records) is a snapshot of the community of collaborators Brooks lived and worked with in Brooklyn. The community includes some of the leading contemporary music interpreters of today: Ashley Bathgate (Bang on a Can All Stars), Eliza Bagg (Pavo Pavo), all three members of Bearthoven (Matt Evans, Karl Larson, Pat Swoboda), Exceptet, Longleash, and Brendon Randall-Myers (Invisible Anatomy / Marateck). Small Works comes… read more about Graduate composers Brooks Frederickson and Amin Sharifi release new CDs »
During her whirlwind, 5 day trip, she rehearsed and conducted Stravinksy’s 1919 Firebird with the Fu Jen Catholic University Symphony Orchestra (photo at right) and Thunder and Lightning with the NCKU (National Cheng Kung University) Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Professor Mösenbichler-Bryant gave several presentations on Music and Medicine at the Landseed Hospital, Fu Jen University, and to medical students and faculty at National Cheng Kung University… read more about Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, director of the Duke Wind Symphony and Durham Medical Orchestra, guest conducts in Taiwan »
Digital Sound Studies is co-edited by Mueller, Mary Caton Lingold and Whitney Trettien. The book was contracted when they were graduate students at Duke (Mueller in Music; Lingold and Trettien in English), and participated in the Digital Humanities Lab at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute.Digital Sound Studies' contributors "provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform… read more about "Digital Sound Studies," co-edited by Darren Mueller (Ph.D. musicology, 2015) released by Duke University Press »
Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), of Jewish-Hungarian descent, was arguably the greatest violinist of the nineteenth century. His performing career in Berlin transformed the aesthetics and interpretation of German music. But Joachim was also a composer of virtuoso pieces, violin concertos, orchestral overtures, and chamber music works, all written between 1847 and 1864 in one intense outpouring of creativity. Katharina Uhde follows Joachim's compositional path through a changing cultural milieu. Joachim's compositions display… read more about Katharina Uhde's (Ph.D. musicology, 2014) "The Music of Joseph Joachim" published by Boydell & Brewer »
Professor Meintjes's 2017 book, Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics After Apartheid (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017), was selected for the Bateson Prize from among more than 100 titles submitted by 30 presses. The Bateson Committee states, "Dust of the Zulu is a breathtaking representation of ethnographic knowledge and empathy directed not simply to a specific place, but at the meanings produced around that place as people’s literal and figural movements, both aspirational and… read more about Louise Meintjes wins Gregory Bateson Prize & Alan Merriam Prize for "Dust of the Zulu" »