Composition faculty member Elainie Lillios travels to Boston November 16-19 to participate as a judge in the Sound in Space competition. Lillios will be joined by two of the leading experts in electroacoustics, Daniel Teruggi, Director of the GRM, Groupe de Recherche Musicales (France) and Ludger Brummer, Director of ZKM, Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe (Germany) The festival is co-sponsored by The Goethe-Institut Boston and the Cultural Service of the Consulate General of France, in partnership with Harvard University and Northeastern University. In addition to judging the competition, Lillios will participate with Teruggi and Brummer on a panel discussion entitled “On the interpretation of electroacoustic music”, and her piece “Stumbling Dance” will be presented on Saturday night’s concert. She will also give a lecture at Northeastern University and Berklee College. http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/bos/kue/aoi/enindex.htm?wt_sc=boston-soundinspace
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Toledo Symphony String Quartet student composer reading
On Wednesday, November 9, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra String Quartet will hold a reading session of adjudicated student compositions in Bryan Recital Hall from 3:30-6:00pm.
Flute and percussion duo Due East to perform at BGSU
Due East, a flute and percussion duo, will perform two concerts of new works on Tuesday, November 29 at the Clazel Theatre (127 N Main St., downtown Bowling Green; suggested donation $2-5) and Wednesday, November 30 (Bryan Recital Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center; free and open to the public). Both concerts, part of the Music at the Forefront concert series sponsored by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, begin at 8 p.m. Their programs include compositions by Michel Galante, Jeff Herriott, Bernhard Lang, David Lang, Alexandre Lunsqui, Alejandro Vinao, Chester Udell and others, including multimedia works with video by John Supko and Greg Beyer. Many of the works performed will feature the berimbau, a stringed Brazilian percussion instrument rarely found in contemporary classical music.
Due East (Erin Lesser, flutes and Greg Beyer, percussion) actively promotes new music and seeks to expand the flute and percussion duo genre through frequent commissions and premieres. The duo has performed in China, Brazil, Europe, Canada and the USA at venues such as the Beijing Modern Music Festival, the Warsaw Crossdrumming Festival, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the SEAMUS conference. Due East has given multiple performances at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and has won first prize in the 2008 National Flute Association Chamber Music Competition. Their first recording, Simultaneous Worlds, is available on Albany Records and, in November 2011, New Amsterdam Records will release drawn only once, a multi-media CD/DVD.
Due East has performed Alex Mincek’s Double Concerto with The Knights (Bargemusic, New York City), as well as with the Northern Illinois University New Music Ensemble. The duo has on multiple occasions been ensemble-in-residence at the Yellow Barn Chamber Music School and Festival. For more information, please visit www.dueeast.net.
Music at the Forefront is an annual concert series featuring performances by accomplished and innovative performers of contemporary music. For more information contact the center at 419-372-2685 or email kdoles@bgsu.edu.
BGSU Students, Alum, and Faculty Featured at Electronic Music Midwest 2011
BGSU Electroacoustics will be well represented at this year’s Electronic Music Midwest Festival in Kansas City, Kansas, September 29-October 1
Chin Ting Chan (MM ’11) – Katachi II [fixed media]
Tim Harenda (MM ’11) – Absence [violin and live electronics] – with Sally Williams (MM current), violin
Andrew Martin Smith (DMA current) – Echoes in the Darkness [fixed media]
Ben Taylor (MM ’11) – First Punch [contrabass and fixed media]
Dan Tramte (MM ’10) – Corse Mode: for Straight Key and Electronics [instrument with electronics]
Rob McClure (MM ’07) – now our grief is put away [soprano and computer]
Elainie Lillios (BGSU Faculty) – November Twilight [trumpet and live electronics]
for more information visit http://www.emmfestival.org/
(Submitted by Elainie Lillios)
BGSU New Music Festival explores ‘Method in Madness’
The 2011 Bowling Green New Music Festival – now in its 32nd year — will showcase the work of more than 25 guest composers and performers Oct. 12-15. The international festival includes concerts, lectures and workshops, organized around the theme “Method in Madness,” celebrating music for unusual or exceptional groups of instruments and innovative modes of presentation.
This year’s featured guests include Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang and the ensemble Mantra Percussion.
Organized by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music (MACCM) and the College of Musical Arts at BGSU, the festival supports the creation of new work and engages both the University and city communities in the process of music appreciation and awareness.
Highlights of this year’s festival include nine world premiere performances of works by David Lang, Brad Balliett, Ge Gan-ru, Matthew Roddie, Christopher Dietz, Amy Beth Kirsten, Jeffrey Brooks, James Mobberley and Mayke Nas.
Festival goers can also enjoy an evening of avant-garde jazz with saxophonist Tony Malaby and his trio Tamarindo, a workshop on creativity and improvisation in music education by Christopher Azzara, a concert of music and film at the Clazel Theater in downtown Bowling Green, and the U.S. premiere of Michael Gordon’s “Timber,” a concert-length work for six percussionists.
In addition, the festival will present a concert of works by students from the Toledo School for the Arts enrolled in the “MACCM Institute” program, a composition and creativity workshop funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Founded in 1980, the New Music Festival has hosted such notable composers as John Adams, Milton Babbitt, John Cage and Joan Tower.
Most festival events are free and open to the public. For ticket information, contact the Moore Musical Arts Center box office at 419-372-8171 or 1-800-589-2224.
For a complete schedule of festival events, visit http://festival.bgsu.edu or contact the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music at 419-372-2685.
Toledo Symphony Orchestra String Quartet to Conduct Nov. 9 Reading Session of Student Compositions
On Nov.9, the string quartet from the Toledo Symphony will be reading and recording student works. Below is a list of all the particulars regarding the event. Please read it carefully.
Time and place:
Wed., Nov.9 from 3:30-6:00pm in Bryan Recital Hall
There will be four 30-minute slots available. The remaining 30 minutes of the session include a break for the musicians and buffer-time for transitions, etc.
Rules for submission:
-All BGSU composition majors are eligible for consideration for one of the four time slots.
-The submission must be for the entire ensemble, not subsets.
-The submitted work may be of any duration, however, keep in mind that each reading slot is only 30 minutes long.
-Deadlines
Score submission date: Oct.19 (bound score, Dietz’s mailbox by 4:00pm)
Selected composers’ parts due date: Oct.25
(Submitted by Christopher Dietz)