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 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/11/15-week/#205216 205216 13243 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:30:17 -0600 The University of Minnesota School of Music presents a one-day "Instrumental Conducting Symposium" for professional band directors of all levels

Saturday, December 12, 2009 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Ferguson Hall, University of Minneapolis

The Conducting Symposium will inspire you and invigorate your passion for teaching and music-making. The symposium focuses on issues of interest to music educators at all levels including effective rehearsal and conducting techniques, communication, and movement for conductors. You will learn how to become an advocate for genuine music-making by approaching it from the inside out. The Conducting Symposium will be limited to 50 overall participants with 12 conductors selected to participate as active conductors. Participants will be accepted on a first come first serve basis.

For more information, download the Conducting Schedule Cover Letter. To apply, download the Application and Conducting Component.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/10/04-week/#196590 196590 13242|13243 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:19:06 -0600 16th Annual High School Honor Band

The University of Minnesota High School Honor Band Weekend will be Friday, January 29 through Sunday, January 31, 2010. Ninety of the upper Midwest's finest young wind and percussion instrumentalists will rehearse and perform challenging wind music in Ted Mann Concert Hall.

For more information, download the Letter from the Directors.

To apply, download the application.

All applications and tapes must be received in the University of Minnesota Bands Office no later than Monday, November 9, 2009.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/09/20-week/#192834 192834 13242|13243 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:12:06 -0600 School of Music Fall 2009 Convocation with Keynote by Marin Alsop

Event will take place in Ted Mann Concert Hall on Tuesday, October 6 at 10 a.m. Featuring a keynote by Marin Alsop, internationally acclaimed conductor, on "Education and the Arts: Musicians as Engaged Leaders" and a performance of Leonard Bernstein's "Make Our Garden Grow" by the University Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs. Featured speakers also include James A. Parente, Jr., College of Liberal Arts Dean and David E. Myers, School of Music Director. The community is invited to attend. For more information on Marin Alsop, visit her website.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/08/23-week/#189155 189155 13242|13243 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:31:05 -0600 U of M School of Music Introduces New Summer Programs

Discover new and perennial U of M School of Music summer programs! New programs include Opera Arriva!, an opera intensive for advanced operatic performers, and the U of M Summer Orchestra. Visit our Summer at the School of Music to find the program for you.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/05/24-week/#181483 181483 13242 Tue, 26 May 2009 12:21:58 -0600 Mobile Music for Everyday People: A Symposium on Mobile Music

The University of Minnesota School of Music, the Department of Art, the Collaborative Arts Department, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Minnesota Futures Grant Program present Mobile Music for Everyday People: A Symposium on Mobile Music and Sound on May 22 and May 23. Michael Bull, author of Sound Moves: iPod Culture and Urban Experience (2007), will be the keynote speaker. Other featured participants include Ali Momeni, Jenny Schmid and Minneapolis Art on Wheels.


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Join the Contemporary Music Workshop for three world premieres of new works by School of Music composition students. The concert will take place on Friday, May 8 at 7 pm in Ferguson Hall, Room 85. The encore performance will be on Tuesday, May 12 at 3:30 pm in Ferguson Hall, Room 85. Noriko Kawai and James Dillon direct the Contemporary Music Workshop.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/05/03-week/#179698 179698 Fri, 08 May 2009 10:45:40 -0600 U of M Opera Theatre presents Leoš Janácek’s Jenůfa, April 23-26, 2009

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The University of Minnesota Opera Theatre presents Leoš Janácek’s Jenůfa. Performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23 through Saturday, April 25 and at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 26 in Ted Mann Concert Hall. U of M students, faculty and staff receive a two for one ticket discount. For more information visit the University Opera Theatre webpage.

Photo by Kelly MacWilliams.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/03/29-week/#174752 174752 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:48:30 -0600 Internationally Renowned Duo Gelland to perform James Dillon's Work at the Weisman Museum

Duo Gelland1.jpg The School of Music and the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota present The Duo Gelland, internationally renowned Swedish violin duo, performing the music of James Dillon and Luigi Nono. The concert will take place on Monday, March 30 at 7 p.m. at the Weisman Art Museum (333 East River Road on the University's East Bank Campus in Minneapolis). The concert is free and open to the public, and no advance tickets are required.


The Duo Gelland, featuring Cecilia and Martin Gelland, tackle new music with an overwhelming empathy and a virtually feverish intensity, capturing their audience in a bubble of absolute presence. The Duo Gelland’s awards include the internationally prestigious Annual German Record Critics’ Award Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2008 for James Dillon’s Traumwerk on DVD and the Interpreter’s Prize of the Society of Swedish Composers. For further information visit the Duo Gelland website.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/03/22-week/#173661 173661 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:22:38 -0600 SOM Alumni/Composer Featured on MPR Discussing Professor Mark Russell Smith

Listen to School of Music alumni/composer David Evan Thomas discuss professor/conductor Mark Russell Smith's monumental task of conducting two Mahler symphonies in one week on Minnesota Public Radio's website. Mark Russell Smith will lead the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 9, Thursday, March 12, at Ted Mann Concert Hall. On March 13 and 14, he'll conduct the Minnesota Orchestra as it performs Mahler's Symphony No. 4 at Orchestra Hall. David Even Thomas is a freelance composer in Minneapolis

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/03/08-week/#170988 170988 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:58:43 -0600 Professor Kathy Saltzman Romey featured in New York Times Article

Professor Kathy Saltzman Romey (choral) was featured in a New York Times review of her Carnegie Hall Festival Chorus concert with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. The concert was a performance of Haydn’s oratorio “Die Schöpfung” (“The Creation”) at Carnegie Hall. To read the full review, visit the New York Times website.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/03/08-week/#170500 170500 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:38:07 -0600 School of Music Professor Peter Mercer-Taylor in The New Yorker

School of Music professor Peter Mercer-Taylor (Musicology) was mentioned in Alex Ross's article "The Youngest Master, Mendelssohn at two hundred" in The New Yorker magazine. To read the article, visit The New Yorker website.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/03/08-week/#170498 170498 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:35:05 -0600 Piano Student Denis Evstuhin Wins First Prize at Iowa Piano Competition

Denis Evstuhin (DMA candidate, Piano, student of Alexander Braginsky) won the First Prize at Iowa Piano Competition, a three day contest, hosted by the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra in Iowa. The program included two complete Piano Quintets and Concerti for Piano and Orchestra in addition to the solo round. Twelve contestants were selected, representing wide spectrum of universities and conservatories. Six proceeded to the second round and three performed in the finals with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra. Evstuhin performed Haydn's Sonata and Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody in the first round; in the second round, he performed the third and fifth movements of Shostakovich's Quintet and the first movement from Dvorak's Quintet; and for the third round, he performed Grieg's Concerto. Second, third, and fourth prizes went to graduate students from Yale, Ann Arbor, and Juilliard.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/03/08-week/#170497 170497 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:27:30 -0600 Film Based On James Dillon's "Traumwerk Book I" Earns Prestigious German Award

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A 2008 “Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik? (The Annual German Record Critics’ Award) was recently awarded to the film Traumwerk, Book I for Violin Duo directed by Johan Ramstroem and based on an interpretation of the music of James Dillon, University of Minnesota School of Music professor and composer. Traumwerk (Dreamwork) was one of ten recipients to receive the award, winning the category of classical DVD for film and sound production. Click here for the press release.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2009/01/04-week/#161199 161199 13241 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:00:46 -0600 University Opera Theatre featured in the Minnesota Daily

To read the front page article about School of Music student Brian Frutiger and University Opera Theatre, check out the Minnesota Daily website.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/11/09-week/#153809 153809 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:03:11 -0600 U of M School of Music Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Winners

Congratulations to the U of M School of Music Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition winners! First place went to Nick Donatelle (BM, Cello, student of Tanya Remenikova), Natalia Moiseeva (DMA Candidate, Violin, student of Sally O'Reilly), and Ivan Konev (DMA Candidate, Piano, Student of Alex Braginsky) who performed Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano by Beethoven. Second place was awarded to Woobin Park (DMA Candidate, Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) who performed Piano Concerto op. 16 by Edvard Grieg. Jiye Kim (DMA Candidate, Piano, student of Lydia Artymiw) received an honorable mention for a performance of Piano Concerto in A Major by W.A. Mozart.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/10/26-week/#151430 151430 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:46:59 -0600 University of Minnesota High School Honor Band Weekend

The fifteenth annual University of Minnesota High School Honor Band Weekend will be held on campus Friday, January 30 through Sunday, February 1, 2009. This will be an opportunity for approximately ninety of the upper Midwest’s finest young wind and percussion instrumentalists to rehearse and perform challenging wind music in Ted Mann Concert Hall. High school students in grades 10–12 are eligible to participate. All applications and tapes must be received no later than Monday, November 10, 2008.

Download more information
Download the application

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/10/05-week/#146998 146998 13242|13243 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:06:22 -0600 Instrumental Conducting Symposium: for professional band directors of all levels

The Conducting Symposium focuses on issues of interest to music educators at all levels including effective rehearsal and conducting techniques, communication and movement for conductors. You will learn how to become an advocate for genuine music-making by approaching it from the inside out. The symposium environment promotes creativity, collaboration, and personal renewal as the means to inspired teaching and dynamic performances. Symposium applications are due by Monday, November 10.

Download more information
Download repertoire
Download the application

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/10/05-week/#146993 146993 13242|13243 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:53:29 -0600 Dean Sorenson featured on Jazz 88's Big Band Scene

Jazz 88's (KBEM 88.5 FM, Twin Cities) program Big Band Scene will feature U of M School of Music Director of Jazz Studies, Dean Sorenson, in conversation with host Jerry Swanberg on Monday, September 29th at 10 pm and on Sunday, October 5th at 7 pm. Listen online at the Jazz 88 website.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/09/28-week/#145636 145636 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:13:47 -0600 Douglas Geers' "Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness" opens September 12 in New York City

Read about composer/professor Douglas Geers' Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness in The New York Times and in Playbill. LaMaMa Experimental Theatre will premiere the 9/11-inspired work beginning September 12. For further information about the opera visit the La MaMa website. Audio credits for the clips featured with The New York Times article can be found at the Calling website.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/08/31-week/#140013 140013 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:46:42 -0600 Fernando Meza featured on MPR Classical's Pipedreams

MPR Classical's (KSJN 99.5 FM) program Pipedreams will feature Fernando Meza's (associate professor of percussion) Bach Cello Suites performed on marimba on Sunday, August 17 at 10:28 pm. Visit MPR Classical's website to listen to the program online and for more information. Meza's Bach Cello Suites can also be heard on his CD J. S. Bach - Suites for Unaccompanied Cello performed on marimba by Fernando Meza.

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Watch Peter Mercer-Taylor, musicology professor, on WCCO Channel 4 News's "Good Question." To view the segment, visit the WCCO website.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/08/10-week/#138227 138227 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:18:12 -0600 Schmitt Music Piano Sale at the Univesity of Minnesota School of Music

The annual U of M School of Music Schmitt Music Piano Sale will take place Friday, August 15 through Sunday, August 17 in Ferguson Hall at the University of Minnesota School of Music.

The documentary film Note by Note, which follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, will be screened for free in Ferguson Hall, Room 225 on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 at 2 pm.

Visit the Schmitt Music website for more information about this sale and free screenings of Note by Note.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/08/03-week/#137829 137829 13243 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:47:31 -0600 David Myers Named Director of the University of Minnesota School of Music

Dr. David Myers, currently professor in the School of Music at Georgia State University, Georgia, has been named director of the School of Music at the University of Minnesota.

Myers will become the School’s eleventh director. He succeeds Dr. Noel Zahler, who left the school in 2007 to become head of the School of Music at Carnegie Mellon University. Myers’s appointment becomes effective September 29, 2008.

For more information about Dr. David Myers, click here.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/07/13-week/#136195 136195 13243 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:51:20 -0600 Violin professor Sally O'Reilly and Bravo! program students featured on Channel 5 KSTP

Check out violin professor Sally O'Reilly and Bravo! program students on Channel 5 KSTP's "'U' attracts musical talent through Bravo" online video.

For more information about the Bravo! program, visit its website.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/07/13-week/#135550 135550 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:29:36 -0600 Professor Young-Nam Kim's North Korean journey featured in The Pioneer Press & MinnPost

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Read about Violin Professor Young-Nam Kim's experience performing in North Korea in the Pyongyang Spring Arts Festival from April 10-18 in The Pioneer Press and on MinnPost.com. Kim performed Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and a work for solo violin and orchestra by a North Korean composer with the Pyongyang National Conservatory Orchestra.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/06/29-week/#129091 129091 13241 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:41 -0600 CANCELLED: Master Class featuring Kroumata, Swedish Percussion Ensemble on May 30

The Kroumata Master Class scheduled for Friday, May 30 at 3:30 pm has been cancelled.

Professor Fernando Meza will host a Master Class featuring Kroumata on Friday, May 30 at 3:30 pm in Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall. This event is free and open to the public. Kroumata, one of the world’s leading percussion groups, celebrates their 30th anniversary as an ensemble this year. Kroumata shares a strong commitment to contemporary music and has commissioned numerous works from Swedish and international composers. The dynamism and energy of Kroumata’s performances have spellbound audiences around the globe. For more information, visit the Kroumata website.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/05/11-week/#128163 128163 Mon, 12 May 2008 12:50:00 -0600 Composer/SOM Graduate Student Eric Brook to have original work performed at Grace University Lutheran Church on Friday, May 9

Grace University Lutheran Church will present the work of SOM Composer/Graduate student Eric Brook on Friday, May 9 at Grace University Lutheran Church at 7:30 pm. Brook recently completed an eight-month residency at the church. For more information on the final concert of his composer residency, visit the Grace University Lutheran Church website. To read a related feature article on Brook’s composer residency, visit The Minnesota Daily web site.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/05/04-week/#127863 127863 Fri, 09 May 2008 09:00:22 -0600 University Opera Theatre students presenting "Opera on Tap" are featured in the Minnesota Daily

University Opera Theatre students, Katherine Crawford and Brandon Miller, are featured in the Minnesota Daily for their work in the guerilla opera series Opera on Tap. Visit the Minnesota Daily website to read their story. Don't miss Opera on Tap on Monday, May 5 at 7 pm at the 400 Bar (400 Cedar Ave. South) in Minneapolis. This event is free and open to the public.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/04/27-week/#126270 126270 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:55:26 -0600 Doug Geers discusses electronic music in the Minnesota Daily

Read about and watch Doug Geers discuss electronic music in The Minnesota Daily . To view the story and for a link to a related feature video, visit the Minnesota Daily website. Don't miss the Electronic Music Project Showcase on Sunday, May 4 from 5-8 pm in Ferguson Hall, Room 215. This event is free and open to the public.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/04/27-week/#126267 126267 Fri, 02 May 2008 18:38:32 -0600 "'Kentucky': Erasing and Reinscribing Race and Geography in Post-WWII Country and Bluegrass Music"

Don't miss the Theory/Musicology/Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series lecture, 'Kentucky': Erasing and Reinscribing Race and Geography in Post-WWII Country and Bluegrass Music, with professors Sumanth Gopinath and Anna Schultz on Friday, May 2 at 2:30 pm in Ferguson Hall, Room 280. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/04/27-week/#126153 126153 Fri, 02 May 2008 09:33:26 -0600 University Theatre Opera announces its 2008/2009 Season

The University Opera Theatre will present The Rape of Lucretia, by Benjamin Britten in the fall of 2008 and Jenufa, by Leoš Janacek (in English) in the spring. Auditions for both operas are scheduled for Friday, April 25 from 7-10 pm and on Saturday, April 26th from 10:30 am-1:30 pm in Room 99. Contact David Walsh for more details.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/04/20-week/#124379 124379 13242 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:11:17 -0600 Canceled: 4/27/08 Faculty Chamber Concert: Timothy Lovelace, Mark Bjork, and Thomas Rosenberg

The Faculty Chamber Concert featuring Timothy Lovelace, Mark Bjork, and Thomas Rosenberg on Sunday, April 27 at 7 pm has been canceled.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/04/13-week/#123588 123588 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:47:44 -0600 Theory/Musicology/Ethnomusicology Colloquium, "Words of Steel: Pete Seeger and the US Navy Steel Band" with Andrew Martin

Don't miss the upcoming Theory/Musicology/Ethnomusicology Colloquium, "Words of Steel: Pete Seeger and the US Navy Steel Band" with Andrew Martin (Inver Hills Community College) on Friday, April 18 at 2:30 pm in Ferguson Hall Room 280. Reception to follow. This event is free and open to the public.

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Andrew Martin is Assistant Professor of Music at Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota and is a PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology/Musicology at the University of Minnesota. His research areas focus on intersections between American and Trinidadian Steel Pan music and American Popular Music. Martin has presented lectures and numerous conference papers on both topics throughout the United States, and was a guest Lecturer at the University of Trinidad and Tobago during the January 2008 carnival season.

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:13:34 -0600 Hear David Walsh featured KFAI Radio on April 10 at 7 pm on Art Matters

Hear University Opera Theatre Director/Producer David Walsh on Arts Matters in conversation with host Marya Morstad on KFAI Radio (90.3 FM Minneapolis/106.7 FM St. Paul) at 7 pm on Thursday, April 10. Walsh discusses University Opera Theatre and their current production of The Coronation of Poppea, running from April 10 through April 13. Listen to the program online at KFAI's website.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/04/06-week/#122313 122313 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:00:46 -0600 Listen to David Walsh and University Opera Theatre on MPR

Hear Director/Producer David Walsh in conversation with host Alison Young and listen to the cast of The Coronation of Poppea perform short musical segments on Minnesota Public Radio Classical (99.5 FM) starting on Wednesday morning, April 9 through Saturday, April 12. To read the feature and to listen to the story in its entirety visit their website and click on "Listen to feature audio".

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/04/06-week/#121958 121958 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:09:01 -0600 See Doug Geers in a live webcast of the Sonic Divergence Festival on April 5 at 7:20 pm CST

"Sweep," Doug Geers' concerto for violin with percussion and laptop orchestra, will be premiered this Saturday night, April 5, on the opening concert of the Sonic Divergence Festival at Northwestern University's Pick Satiger Concert Hall. The concerto will be played by violinist Maja Cerar, percussionist Cameron Britt, and the Princeton University Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). The fifteen laptop performers will play their instruments using Nintendo Wii wireless video game controllers.

A live webcast of this concert will be broadcast from the Pick Staiger Hall website. Visit www.pickstaiger.org or the Northwestern University School of Music website between 7:20 and 7:30 p.m. CST for a link to the broadcast. You will need the latest version of Real Player. For further information about using Real Player, visit their website


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The concert will also feature works by Dan Trueman, Curtis Bahn/Tomie Hahn, Perry Cook, Seth Cluett, and John Fontein. "Sweep" will be the first work after intermission.

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:40:05 -0600 Immanuel Davis featured on MPR Classical

Hear Immanuel Davis featured on Minnesota Public Radio Classical (99.5 FM, KSJN) in conversation with host Alison Young. To read the story and to listen to the audio online, visit the MPR website. For information on Davis' Sunday, March 30th Flute Recital, visit the campus events website.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/03/23-week/#119827 119827 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:36:11 -0600 Mark Russell Smith Featured on Morning Edition

Hear Mark Russell Smith and Jerry Luckhardt interviewed on MPR (91.1 FM, KNOW) on Morning Edition. To read the story and to listen to the audio online, visit the MPR website.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/03/16-week/#118732 118732 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:13:22 -0600 Fifth Annual Concert of Balkan Contemporary Music BALKANICUS: Music from Albania, Bulgaria and Romania

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
Free and open to the public

Noriko Kawai, piano; John De Haan, voice; Nickolai Kolarov, cello; Rudolph Kremer, violin; and graduate students and members of the School of Music New Music Ensemble perform the works of Thomas Simaku (Albania), Ivan Spassov (Bulgaria), Simeon Pironkov (Bulgaria), Roumen Balyozov (Bulgaria), and Sorin Lerescu (Romania).

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The program includes “The Flight of the Eagle for Piano? (2001) by Thomas Simaku, Albania; “Confrontation for Violin and Cello (Instrumental Theatre)? (1976) by Ivan Spassov, Bulgaria; “Fantasia for Baritone, Cello and Piano on Heinrich Heine's poetry? (1997) by Simeon Pironkov, Bulgaria; “(DIS)CONTINUUM for instrumental ensemble and tape? (2003) by Sorin Lerescu, Romania; and “EXACT MUSIC for nine instruments? (2007) by Roumen Baliozov, Bulgaria.

This chamber concert series, created by Bulgarian cellist Nickolai Kolarov in 2003, showcases New Music from the Balkans and familiarizes the American audience with international composers of different generations and styles who all carry the “Spiritus Balkanicus.?

13242|13241|13240 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:03:53 -0600 Bach and his Bible

The Musicology and Theory Divisions are pleased to invite you to join us this Friday, March 14 at 2:30 in Rm. 280 in Ferguson Hall for a very exciting colloquium. Dr. Thomas Rossin, the founder and conductor of the Exultate choir, which is performing Bach's B-Minor Mass around the Twin Cities several times this month, will be exhibiting and speaking about J.S. Bach's personal Bible, its marginalia, etc, which was the topic of his doctoral dissertation.

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On exhibit will be the following items, some of which are exceedingly rare:
1. 2 volumes of the Bible once owned by Bach
2. Information kiosks with panels about Bach, his music, and his Bible
3. An original page from the 1611 first edition of the King James Bible
4. A theological book printed in Leipzig in 1740 (while Bach was living there)
5. Ceremonial coins minted on the 300th birthday of Bach & Handel
6. Copies of autograph scores of two motets of Bach
7. Rossin's dissertation about the Bach Bible
8. Some items from the U of M rare book collection.
9. A handout explaining about Bach's library, the discovery of the Bible, it's importance, etc.

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:01:59 -0600 Alex Lubet and Iris Shiraishi at Dreamland Arts

Music for Japanese Instruments and Guitar
featuring Alex Lubet (theory/composition) and Iris Shiraishi
Fri, Mar 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Dreamland Arts, 677 Hamline Ave. N.
St. Paul, MN 55104
651-645-5506
http://www.dreamlandarts.com/events/detail.php?eventId=98
Pay what you can at the door, please reserve seats.

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An evening of original compositions written and performed by Iris Shiraishi and Alex Lubet. The program consists of Iris's 'Hamakaze', for fue (Japanese flute), percussion, and guitar, Alex's 'By the Rivers of Babylon' (guitar) and collaboratively written works: 'Hatikvah' (percussion and guitar) and 'Fantasy on Der Heyser Bulgar'(taiko, fue, and guitar). 45 minutes

Iris Shiraishi is well-known for her work with Mu Daiko, the Twini Cities' taiko group. Alex Lubet led the Blended Cultures Orchestra in the 90's and teaches popular music at the U of M.

13242|13241 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:34:22 -0600 Art Exhibit: Paradise and Purgatory

Paradise and Purgatory, an exhibition of new two- and three-dimensional art by graduate students in the Department of Art will be on display in the Music Library and Wilson Library through April 14. For more information, visit the Library Exhibits page.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/02/24-week/#113722 113722 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:57:50 -0600 Evstyukhin Wins 07/08 Concerto Competition

Congratulations to Denis Evstyukhin, who won the University Symphony Orchestra 2007/2008 Concerto Competition! Evstyukhin, a student of Alex Braginsky, won the competition playing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2.; he will perform the same piece with the University Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Henry Charles Smith on March 9.

Nick Donatelle (student of Tanya Remenikova) and Chen-Yu Hsu (student of Jorja Fleezanis) each received an Honorable Mention in the Competition.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/02/24-week/#113720 113720 13242|13240 Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:54:05 -0600 Faculty Recital: John Snow, oboe; Norbert Nielubowski, bassoon; and Timothy Lovelace, piano

Don't miss this exciting event featuring SOM faculty members performing French music for oboe, bassoon, and piano.

Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall

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Don't miss the guest artist recital by Pro Arte Piano Trio on Friday, Feb. 15 at 7:30pm in Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall.

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Formed in 1997, Pro Arte Piano Trio is one of the premier chamber ensembles performing today in Taiwan.
It's founder and violinist Juin-Ying Lee is an outstanding violinist and a School of Music alum (D.M.A. '96). Since his return to Taiwan, he established himself as an important musical force in Taiwan and sends annually his outstanding students for further studies in our school. Currently there are three of his former students pursuing graduate studies in the School of Music.

This will be their first appearance in the U.S. as a trio. They will also appear in the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota on February 17 and will make their Boston debut at the MIT Concert Series the following week.

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:16:01 -0600 2008 Marvin O. Mechelke Piano Award Competition Cancelled

The Mechelke Competition will not take place this year. Information regarding next year's Mechelke Competition will be posted as soon as it is available. For questions and further information, please contact Professor Rebecca Shockley at shock001@umn.edu.

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2008/01/20-week/#104927 104927 13242|13243|13240 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:08:39 -0600 Sorenson Chosen as Minnesota Sesquicentennial Song Composer

Dean Sorenson, Director of Jazz Studies, was recently commissioned by the Roseville Visitors Association to compose the Sesquicentennial song for Minnesota entitled, Shines for All To See. Its world premiere took place Saturday, January 12, 2008 at the first annual Roseville Winter Jazz Festival where the JazzMN Big Band, directed by Dr. Doug Snapp, performed the premiere. Singers Judy Donaghy and T. Mychael Rambo were the featured vocalists.

Click here to listen to Shines for All.

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This piece has been scored for any instrumental ensemble: Jazz Ensemble, Concert Band, String Orchestra, or any combination. The vocal part can be sung by a male or female soloist, or a full chorus. Full Score and parts in PDF format are available. For more information on performing this piece, please contact Dean Sorenson at soren048@umn.edu or 612-624-2334.

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:51:30 -0600 Guest Artists: Pro Arte Piano Trio

Don't miss the guest artist recital by Pro Arte Piano Trio on Friday, Feb. 15 at 7:30pm in Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall.

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Formed in 1997, Pro Arte Piano Trio is one of the premier chamber ensembles performing today in Taiwan.
It's founder and violinist Juin-Ying Lee is an outstanding violinist and a School of Music alum (D.M.A. '96). Since his return to Taiwan, he established himself as an important musical force in Taiwan and sends annually his outstanding students for further studies in our school. Currently there are three of his former students pursuing graduate studies in the School of Music.

This will be their first appearance in the U.S. as a trio. They will also appear in the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota on February 17 and will make their Boston debut at the MIT Concert Series the following week.

13312|13242 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:45:57 -0600 Faculty Book Release: "Symphonic Aspirations" by Karen Painter

Ethnomusicology/musicology faculty member Karen Painter will release her new book, Symphonic Aspirations (Harvard University Press) on January 15, 2008.

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Overview The symphony did not, as the story usually goes, fall out of fashion after 1900 in the heyday of modernism. To the contrary, it became a political stake, eventually revitalizing a generation disempowered by World War I. Painter examines how critics politicized music, especially that of Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner—whether to breed nationalism or to instill heroism. She exposes the debasement of active and informed listening in favor of Nietzschean will power or passive absorption. Her story has surprises: Mahler’s "liberal" admirers stressed the same virtues of unity and force that their nationalist and anti-Semitic counterparts heard in Bruckner's architectonic movements.

Significantly, Painter finds, the most brutal years of symphonic listening were not during the Third Reich but after World War I. The polemics exceeded those of any period before or since, with the exception of the Nazi Gleichschaltung in 1933-1934. Critics did more than composers, bureaucrats and politicians—even, finally, more than Goebbels and Hitler himself—to inure audiences to hear ideology in music.

The final question posed by her book is not whether music can be political, but how—after many years in which music mattered because it could affect national and cultural experience—we can listen to the same music today without sharing that dark heritage.

13241 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:16:36 -0600 Faculty Recital: Alex Lubet and Iris Shiraishi

Iris Shiraishi and Alex Lubet (theory / composition) present Far East/Lower East a program of original music for Japanese instruments and guitar on Asian and Jewish themes at Form + Content Gallery, 210 2nd St N, Minneapolis on Sunday, January 6, 2-3 pm.

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A preview of their Canadian tour, this is a "rug concert," so please bring something upon which to sit on the floor. (Limited chairs are available for those who need them.) Suggested minimum donation is $5. Fabulous free Kosher refreshments by Leah Golberstein. Information about Form + Content is at www.formandcontent.org. For information about the concert, contact Alex Lubet at lubet001@umn.edu or 651 497-5770.

13242|13241 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:40:19 -0600 Kathy Saltzman Romey received Grammy nomination

Kathy Saltzman Romey (choral) recently received a Grammy nomination with the Minnesota Chorale and Minnesota Orchestra.

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According to the Star Tribune, "A Minnesota Orchestra recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 was nominated for best orchestral performance. The CD, which also features the Minnesota Chorale, is the third of five CDs devoted to the Beethoven symphonies, all conducted by music director Osmo Vänskä, who has never won a Grammy" (December 6, 2007). Kathy Saltzman Romey is Artistic Director of the Minnesota Chorale, which is featured on the nominated CD.

13241 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:21:14 -0600 Matthew Bribitzer-Stull awarded the 2007 Emerging Scholar Award

Matthew Bribitzer-Stull (theory / composition) was recently given the 2007 Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory for “The A-flat–C–E Complex: The Origin and Function of Chromatic Major Third Collections in Nineteenth-Century Music,? published in Music Theory Spectrum 28/2 (2006).

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According to the Society for Music Theory, "The Emerging Scholar Award is given for a book or article by an author in an early stage of her/his career. (The defining criterion is publication within five years of the author's receiving a Ph.D. or, in the case of someone who does not hold a Ph.D., before the author reaches the age of forty.)" For more information about the award and Matthew Bribitzer-Stull's winning article, visit the Society for Music Theory website.

13241 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:19:25 -0600 Tanya Remenikova awarded 2007 Master Teacher Studio Award

Tanya Remenikova (cello) has been awarded the 2007 Master Teacher Studio Award from the Minnesota Chapter of the American String Teachers Association.

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According to their website, "The Master Teacher: Studio award is presented to a meritorious teacher from a private lesson studio or college."

13241 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:17:02 -0600 Scott Lipscomb featured on Driven to Discover sidewalk cling

CLA is well represented in the twelve new featured discoveries as part of the Driven to Discover campaign. Specifically, the work of Kathryn Sikkink, Scott Lipscomb (music education), Monica Luciana, Steve Manson, Pat Frazier, and the Guthrie BFA are featured.

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You can view the new TV and print ads at www.discover.umn.edu. TV and newspaper ads feature the amazing work being done by University and CLA faculty and students, and the Driven to Discover web site dives even deeper into their work. (Please note that not all of the TV and print ads have been developed yet.) The campaign will run now through December 9 and pick up again in mid-January and run through mid-March. The sidewalk cling featuring Scott Lipscomb's answer about earworms has been installed in front of Walter Library. (Fall 2007)

13241 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:14:35 -0600 Congratulations Bojan Hoover

Percussionist Bojan Hoover was announced as the winner of the Missoula Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition on December 16, 2007. He performed the Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra by Ney Rosauro and will perform this work with the orchestra on February 16 and 17, 2008. Bojan is a student of Fernando Meza. (December 2007)

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2007/12/16-week/#102987 102987 13240 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:09:31 -0600 Congratulations Erik Rohde

Mark Bjork's student Erik Rohde (B.M., violin) was the first place winner in the senior division of the Mary West Solo Competition sponsored by the Minnesota chapter of the American String Teachers Association in October. In addition at the insistence of the judges a special award was created for Erik for the best performance of solo Bach. (December 2007)

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2007/12/16-week/#102986 102986 13240 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:07:40 -0600 Congratulations Denis Evstuhin

Denis Evstuhin (M.M., piano) won the 2nd Prize at the 13th International Piano Competition "Principat d'Andorra." He was also awarded special prize for best performance of Spanish music out of the 77 admitted contestants. Denis Evstuhin is a student of Alexander Braginsky. (November 2007)

 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/mus-ppr/music/2007/12/16-week/#102985 102985 13240 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:06:31 -0600 Welcome to the School of Music blog!

Welcome to the new School of Music blog! Here you can find student and faculty news, announcements, and more. Be sure to check back regularly since information will be posted often.

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