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Texas State University School of Music Artist in Residence, Dr. Craig Hella Johnson, and his Austin-based vocal ensemble Conspirare received their tenth GRAMMY® nomination in the Best Choral Performance category for their new album The Singing Guitar ahead of the 64th annual GRAMMY® awards. The Singing Guitar, released under the Delos label, features works by composers…
Boston-based ensemble Hub New Music released a digital album of Michael Ippolito‘s Capriccio, a 25-minute work that responds to paintings by the German-American artist Hans Hofmann. The album is currently available on Bandcamp and will be released on streaming services in the coming weeks.
Senior Lecturer of Music Richard D. Hall, recently performed at two modern dance festivals. Richard created the music and performed Mandolin & Live Electronics on the dance piece “ToMAYto/ ToMAHto.” The work was a collaboration with dancers/choreographers Michelle Nance, director of Texas State University Dance program and Catherine Solaas, Department Chair for Dance at Austin…
Dr. Lynn Ledbetter performed with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 on November 12. She will perform with the Abilene Philharmonic on December 4 and will serve as Concertmaster for the Arlington Philharmonic in Washington, DC on December 12.
The Texas State Mysterium for New Music Ensemble recently performed in Rochester, NY, at the College Music Society’s (CMS) Sixty-Fourth Annual National Conference in association with the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI). The performance titled “Beautiful Sounds,” was a laptop septet soundscape celebrating the sight and sounds of the San Marcos River. The…
Dr. Dimitar Ninov, Senior Lecturer of Music Theory & Aural Skills,read an invited paper at the largest music theory conference in the world, EUROMAC (European Music Analysis Conference), in Moscow, on September 23, 2021. He also saw the premiere of a new composition for clarinet and piano at the New Bulgarian Music Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria,…
On October 7th three Texas State University School of Music faculty members performed selections from Kevin Salfen’s and Rick Davis’ newly composed song cycle, “Stations of Mychal” at the College Music Society (CMS) National Conference in Rochester, NY. The performers were Dr. Richard Novak (tenor), Dr. Ames Asbell (viola), & Dr. Joey Martin (piano).
In September, Dr. Alec Scherer, Assistant Professor of Music Education, presented two research posters (“Undergraduate Choral Conducting Courses: Examining Students’ Practice Behaviors and Instructors’ Pedagogy” and “High School Band Directors’ Perceptions and Applications of Democratic Rehearsal Procedures in Concert Band Rehearsals”) at the virtual 2021 Symposium on Music Teacher Education. The Society for Music Teacher…
Aurora Voce‘s recording of Marie-Claire Saindon‘s “You Are the One,” from the spring 2021 semester has been selected to be posted on the Hal Leonard website as a model performance of her song.
The Florida Orchestra gave the world premiere of Michael Ippolito‘s new work, a la fenestra, which was commissioned for the orchestra’s opening weekend of concerts for the 2021-2022 season. Scored for strings, percussion and three brass ensembles that were placed around the theater, Ippolito depicted the isolation many experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also…