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BGSU Students, Alum, and Faculty Featured at Electronic Music Midwest 2012

BGSU Electroacoustics will be well represented at this year’s Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Romeoville, Illiois, October 11-13, 2012

 

Carter Rice (current master’s) – Tapping Undercurrents [percussion and live electronics]

Ben Murphy (current master’s) – Objects [fixed media]

Steven Kemper (MM 2006) – Mythical Spaces [percussion and live electronics]

Mikel Kuehn (BGSU faculty) – …lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings…

Elainie Lillios (BGSU faculty) – Among Fireflies [alto flute and live electronics]; Dry Wind [trumpet, violin, viola and fixed media] and Entracte [fixed media]

 

for more information visit http://www.emmfestival.org/

Trumpet Week

BGSU trumpet professors Charles Saenz and Lauraine Carpenter have announced the schedule for BGSU Trumpet Week.  The event is being sponsored by Yamaha and Royalton Music:

James Ackley – Professor of Trumpet, South Carolina, www.jamesackley.net

Sean Jones –  www.seanjonesmusic.com.   Teaches at Duquesne, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Music Director of Cleveland Jazz Orchestra,  has his own small group,  etc etc.

James Ackley Master Class             Saturday, September 21, 10 am-noon, Conrad Room

James Ackley Recital                                         Monday, September 24, 8pm Bryan Hall

 

Sean Jones Master Class                 Wednesday, September 26, 6pm-7:30pm, Choral Room

Sean Jones/FacultyQuartet             Wednesday, September 26, 8:30pm-midnight, Club 149

Sean Jones w/Lab I                                            Thursday, September 27, 8pm, Kobacker

Threshold Student Electroacoustic Festival

BGSU students Cory Kasprzyk, Ben Murphy, Carter Rice, and Jennifer Roberts  will present pieces on this year’s Threshold Student Electroacoustic Festival, September 21 and 22, 2012.Threshold is a student festival instituted over 20 years ago by Ball State University, Bowling Green State University, and Oberlin Conservatory. This year, for the first time, the festival will be hosted by Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Designed as a vehicle to promote student collegiality in electroacoustic music, scheduled events include three concerts of student music from the participating institutions, along with occasional paper sessions, installations, and social events. All concerts will occur in Souers Hall, and are free and open to the public.  More information can be found at http://www.users.muohio.edu/blolanpa/threshold.html