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Director of Baroque and Recorder Ensembles, Gwyn Roberts, featured on BBC Radio 3's "The Early Music Show"
Penn Baroque and Recorder Ensembles are led by Gwyn Roberts, who also serves as director of Philadelphia's baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare. She is featured along with co-director of Tempesta di Mare, Richard Stone, on "The Early Morning Show" with Lucie Skeaping. Take a listen to the show here.
Assistant Professor Glenda Goodman edited a special issue
of the journal American Music on the theme “Transatlantic Perspectives.” The issue, which came out in Fall 2015, features an article by Penn alum Myron Gray.
Juan Castrillon (Ethnomusicology Candidate) has published
an article in the Journal of Music and Dance Studies of the Technical University of Istanbul. "Spatial transformation of music practice in Istanbul: Repositioning of subjectivities," Porte Akademik 10 (2014), 131-143. Click here to read article.
Luke Carlson (Ph.D 2014) selected winner of the 2016 MACRO Competition.
Circuits for classical guitar was given first prize. As part of the prize, Dr. Luke Carlson will give a theoretical presentation of Circuits at the MACRO (Music Analysis Creative Research Organization) conference in Madison, Wisconsin on June 17–18, 2016.
Scott Ordway (Ph.D. 2013) selected for Penn Museum Composer Residency.
Scott will research collections at the museum and create new compositions in response, which will be performed in April at the museum. Scott will draw upon several of the Penn Museum's far-ranging collections (Babylon, Egypt, Central America, and South Asia) to create an immersive "whisper" play entitled Tonight We Tell the Secrets of the World. Under the 90-foot dome of the museum's Chinese Rotunda, a string orchestra, conductor, lighting designer, and members of the audience will bring the work to life, all guided by curatorial and research staff from the museum.
Two Penn PhD alumni
are among the eight composers named as residents at Copland House for 2015: Carlos Carrillo, and Jeremy Gill.
James Primosch’s
"From a Book of Hours” performed by New Juilliard Ensemble and reviewed in the New York Times
Four Penn Composers win American Composers Forum's competition in Cuba
Ingrid Arauco (86), Jennifer Higdon (94), Jeremy Gill(2000), and KaiYoung Chan (4th year Ph.D. candidate).
Premiere of Jay Reise’s
The Gift to Urashima Taro
Premiere of Jay Reise’s
Disenchanted Forest, for Clarinet and Piano was premiered by Todd Palmer and Ieva Jokubaviciute on August 8, 2015 at the Newburyport Chamber Music Festival where Reise served as composer-in-residence. The piece was commissioned by Preston Reed especially for the festival.