Illinois Wesleyan University School of Music presents
New Music Series Spring 2011
All events are in Westbrook Auditorium unless otherwise specified
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January 18 |
Guest Recital: Duo Thalie Véronique Mathieu (Canada), violin; Sophie Patey (France), piano Recent music from Europe and the United States 8 PM |
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January 22 |
IWU Jazz Festival |
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January 25 |
Guest Recital: Yang Wei, pipa A renowned master of the Chinese lute presents a concert of traditional and new music from China, and the world premiere of Color Garden by IWU composer David Vayo 8 PM |
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February 3 |
Symposium of Contemporary Music A panel discussion on musical education in China, with three guests from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music 4 PM |
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February 4 |
Symposium of Contemporary Music A concert of music by guest composers Yang Xiaozhong and Song Mingzhu, featuring guest soloist Zhou Tianli, guzheng (Chinese plucked zither) 7:30 PM |
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February 8 |
Student Composition Concert 8 PM |
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February 11 |
University Choir/Symphonic Winds Program includes Psalms for chorus and two pianos by Lukas Foss 7:30 PM |
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February 15 |
Sonic Exploration Society Contemporary jazz and free improvisations for trumpet, piano, bass, tabla and drums, with special guest Chris Callahan, Irish fiddler 8 PM |
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February 18 |
Student Composition Concert 8 PM |
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February 19 |
Senior Composition Recital Katie Spencer 5 PM |
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February 27 |
Faculty Recital: Carren Moham, soprano & Kent Cook, piano Featuring works by Edward Boatner, Charles Lloyd Jr., Robert Owens, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and John Work Jr. 3 PM |
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March 4 |
Jazz Combo Thomas Streeter, Director Music from the greats of jazz literature 7:30 PM |
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March 10 |
New Music Café Featuring music by guest composer Brooke Joyce (Luther College) and the world premiere of Sandpails, a song cycle by IWU composer David Vayo on poetry by Professor Emeritus James McGowan 8 PM |
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March 22 |
Collegiate Choir Tour Concert J. Scott Ferguson, Director Program includes contemporary music by Sametz, Whitacre, Hrušovský and Lukáš 8 PM Second Presbyterian Church, 313 N. East St., Bloomington |
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March 25 |
Jazz Ensemble Tour Concert and Senior Night Thomas Streeter, director Highlights of contemporary and traditional jazz from the Jazz Ensemble’s tour of New York and Boston, featuring the ensemble’s five seniors 7:30 PM |
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March 26 |
Senior Composition Recital Michelle Banas 1 PM |
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April 5 |
Student Composition Concert 8 PM |
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April 9 |
John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference Keynote address by David Dunn A composer and natural-science researcher, Dunn is a pioneering figure in the field of acoustic ecology Center for Natural Sciences, 1:30 PM (Performances by student composers and improvisers will also take place during the conference) |
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April 9 |
Jazz Lab Band, Thomas Streeter, director Selections by jazz writers from the big band era to the present 7:30 PM |
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April 16 |
Percussion Ensemble Concert Amanda Legner, director 11 AM |
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April 16 |
Independent Study Recital- 20th Century American Composers: Matthew Neylon, tenor Featuring works by Barber, Bowles, Loewe, Menotti, Previn, Stravinsky, and Weill 3 PM |
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All events are free and open to the public |
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