Assistant Professor of Piano, Thomas Rosenkranz, recently completed a residency at the University of California at San Diego from Nov. 12th- 16th, together with his colleagues from the annual soundSCAPE Festival in Italy, which included Tony Arnold, voice Aiyun Huang, percussion, and Lisa Cella, flute. The residency included a performance of new works written for them and a recording of works by UCSD graduate students. In addition, the group was also a featured ensemble at the College Music Society conference, and Professor Rosenkranz presented a masterclass on the music of Franz Liszt at the Opus 119 School in Irvine, California.
View trailer from Festival Series guests, New York Polyphony
View Festival Series guests, New York Polyphony’s trailer for their upcoming performance at BGSU on November 30th, 2012.
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Sentinel Tribune highlights TSO student composer reading
http://www.sent-trib.com/arts-entertainment/music-from-head-to-hand-toledo-symphony-plays-student-composers-work
BGSU Students, Alum, and Faculty Featured at Electroacoustic Barn Dance 2012
BGSU Electroacoustics will be well represented at this year’s Electroacoustic Barn Dance hosted by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, November 8-10, 2012. The BGSU contingency includes six pieces and one performance of newly composed electroacoustic works.
Ben Murphy (current master’s) – Objects [fixed media]
Jon Fielder (MM 2012) – C12H16N2 [fixed media]
Timothy Harenda (MM 2011) – Absence [violin and live electronics]
Benjamin Taylor (MM 2011) – Noetic Motion [piano and live electronics]
L. Scott Price (MM 2005) – Thrymmatizo [fixed media]
Elainie Lillios (BGSU faculty) – Nostalgic Visions [piano and live electronics]
Mary MacKinnon (doctoral performer) – performing “Abyss” by Nolan Stolz
for more information visit http://www.marklsnyder.com/EAJJ/Electroacoustic_Barn_Dance___Home.html
Lillios a Guest at Indiana University and Eastman
Among Elainie Lillios’s (Associate Professor of Composition) fall 2012 travels are guest visits to Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) and The Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY.) Elainie’s October visit to IU included group composition lesson/master classes and a lecture on her recent work. On Monday November 12 at The Eastman School, she will lecture on her recent work and is the featured guest composer on an electroacoustic concert that evening. Performances of her work will include: 2BTextures (abstract animation), Dreams in the Desert (fixed media), Listening Beyond… (Ambisonic fixed media), and Among Fireflies (alto flute and live electronics) played by flutist Erin Lesser.
Jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson to perform with BGSU Jazz Lab Band I
BOWLING GREEN, O.–Acclaimed jazz vocalist Karrin Allyson will be guest soloist with Bowling Green State University’s Jazz Lab Band I in an 8 p.m. performance on Nov. 8 in Kobacker Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public.
A multiple Grammy-nominated singer, Allyson has been described by Don Heckman of The Los Angeles Times as a “musician’s musician.” She has recorded 13 albums, garnering praise for her ability to move with ease and authority from the Great American Songbook of Gershwin and Porter to the Great American Jazz Songbook of Ellington, Monk, Davis and Gillespie and on to contemporary music from such artists as Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell and Jimmy Webb.
Allyson has a degree in classical piano performance, with formative stints in Minneapolis and Kansas City, where she began her recording career with Concord Jazz. She currently tours, playing the major jazz festivals, concert venues and clubs of the U.S. and overseas, to Brazil, Japan, Australia and Europe.
She will also coach BGSU’s vocal jazz ensembles during her visit, which is part of the Dorothy E. and DuWayne H. Hansen Musical Arts Series at the University. Allyson is one of two guest artists this year, along with conductor, composer, musician and radio personality William (Bill) McGlaughlin.
The Hansen Musical Arts Series Fund was established in 1996 to bring significant representatives of the musical arts to share their talents with BGSU students and members of the Bowling Green community. Past Hansen Series guests have included Marin Alsop, Branford Marsalis and Bob McGrath from Sesame Street, among others.
For more information, call 419-372-8171.
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