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| Concerts Saturday, February 6, 2010 Pre-College Division Chamber Concert #2 3:00 PM Staller Center Recital Hall THIS CONCERT WILL PROCEED AS PLANNED Wednesday, February 10. 2010 Campus Lifetime Concert 1:00 PM Staller Center Recital Hall Program TBA Thursday, February 11 Contemporary Chamber Players 8:00 PM - Staller Center Recital Hall Program: Unsuk Chin's "Double Concerto" for prepared piano and percussion, conducted by Tim Long, featuring pianist Lisa Moore with Eduardo Leandro. The second half of the concert features PIAP, a percussion ensemble from the State University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, performing music written for them by emerging and well established Brazilian composers. Friday, February 12, 2010 Stony Brook Opera presents “An Evening of American Song”, $ 8:00 PM - Staller Center Recital Hall A program of songs by contemporary American composers, accompanied by Timothy Long. Tickets $10/$5 Thursday, February 18, 2010 Christina Dahl, Faculty Piano Recital 8:00 PM Staller Center, Free admission Faculty member Christina Dahl presents a recital of works for solo piano, including a series based on the 19th-century view of Bach. FULL PROGRAM: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme".........................Bach/Busoni Prelude and Fugue in e minor, opus 35..........Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in D major, opus 35..........Mendelssohn Prelude and Fugue in b minor, opus 35...........Mendelssohn "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ".........................Bach/Busoni Prelude and Fugue in f minor, opus 35.............Mendelssohn Fugue in a minor BWV 543..................................Bach/Liszt Sonata in Bb major, opus 106, "Grosse Sonate fur das Hammer-Klavier"............Beethoven Sunday, February 21, 2010 Early Music Day at Stony Brook 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Music Building (various rooms) Click here for the full schedule Sunday, February 21, 2010 Baroque Sundays at Three presents “Love Songs and More” 3:00 PM - Staller Center Recital Hall ANIMA – a new and very wild chamber group on the New York early music scene featuring soprano, baroque harp, baroque violin, lirone, and theorbo will thrill you with their improvisatory approach to dramatic love songs and brilliant virtuosity. Student Recitals Free and open to the public. All are welcome. Friday, February 5 8:00 PM RH - Sherry Wei, percussion Colloquium Series Location: Music Library Seminar Room (Melville Library W1531) Free and open to the public. All are welcome. Thursday, Feb. 11 4:15 PM - Professor Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University) "Heilige Trias, Stildualismus, Beethoven: Limits of nineteenth-century Germanic music historiography" Tuesday, March 2 4:15 PM - Professor Anne Stone (CUNY Graduate Center) "The Story in the Song: Autobiography and Lyric in the Works of 'Franciscus cecus de Florentia' (a.k.a. Francesco Landini)" For more information please contact Professor Benjamin Steege. | Department News Spring 2010 Emerson String Quartet Wins Grammy The Emerson String Quartet received a Grammy Award for their May 2009 recording Intimate Letters. It was the eighth such award presented to the Emerson String Quartet. Please click here for a video from the Newsday website. Also, please read more here. 1/31/10 Music for People: An Improvisation Workshop with Terry Keevil Have you ever wished you could just make music without worrying about playing the "right" notes? Have you ever wanted to chuck the etude book and just make something up? Here's your chance! Terry Keevil, oboist, performer, teacher, and a leader in the music improvisation organization, Music for People, will be offering a complimentary workshop at Stony Brook University on Sunday, February 28, 2010. The event will be held in the Choral Room, located in the basement of the Music Building, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. Based on the premise that any combination of people and instruments can make music together in fresh and innovative ways, Music for People workshops welcome musicians of all backgrounds and abilities. By participating in simple activities designed to deepen listening and musical expression, participants experience the joy of individual and collective music making in a safe and supportive environment. Open to everyone who loves music – instrumentalists, singers, performers, listeners. For more information about workshop leader, Terry Keevil, visit: www.terrykeevil.com For more information about Music for People, visit: www.musicforpeople.org And to reserve a place in the workshop, please contact Dorothea Cook, Director of Adult Community Music Programs at Stony Brook: dorotheacook@gmail.com Fall 2009 David Blake (PhD student in Music History/Theory) Graduate Student Prize for the best paper given by a graduate student at the May 2009 conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music- US Chapter Meeting. Dave won the prize for his paper titled: "Internet Music Criticism as Archive: Pitchfork Media and Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea." 12/15/09 Christa Patton (DMA in early harp) was featured yesterday on NPR's All Things Considered playing harp along side a newly reconstructed instrument that Leonardo Da Vinci designed - a viola-harpsichord. She talks as well about the experience. 12/10/09 Click here for more information Assistant Professor Frederick Moehn The Society for Ethnomusicology has awarded professor Moehn's article "Music, Mixing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro," published in the UK journal Ethnomusicology Forum in 2008 (vol. 17/2) the Jaap Kunst Prize. The prize recognizes "the most significant article in ethnomusicology written by a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology and published within the previous year." Prize committee chair James Cowdery noted that Frederick Moehn’s paper was at or near the top of each committee member’s list. One called it “an ethnographic case study written with scholarly maturity that sets it in a complex and well-theorized context”; another wrote that it is “an outstanding example of using local concepts as key metaphors to unpack histories of meanings and practices.” 12/10/09 Emerson String Quartet The Quartet's latest CD, Intimate Letters, was nominated for a Grammy Award last week in the category of "Best Chamber Music Performance." The CD includes Janácek's first and second string quartets and Martinu's Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola. 12/10/09 Enrico Sartori, Graduate student in the DMA program in flute performance Sartori has won a semi-final audition for a flute chair with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Cardiff. He will be performing with the orchestra in 2010 for the final stage of the audition. Best of luck! 12/10/09 Professor Daria Semegen Professor Semegen is the recipient of the “2009 Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership in Rochester NY, site of the Susan B. Anthony House National Historic Landmark. The award was presented at the annual Susan B, Anthony Legacy Dinner at the University of Rochester where the speakers included the university’s president, the vice-president and noted historian Prof. Allida Black, Project Director and Editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at George Washington University. Previous recipients of this award include internationally recognized figures in arts, sciences and medicine. Daria Semegen is the first composer to receive this award. For more information, please click here. Alumnus John Parcell, Composition John Parcell, Associate Professor at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio was recently named by the Carnegie Foundation as the 2009 Professor of the Year for the state of Ohio. For more information on this award, please click here and here. Professor Sarah Fuller Lifetime Membership in the Society for Music Theory which recognizes extraordinary achievement in the field of music theory and a long-standing contribution to music theoretical endeavor. In addition to this award, a volume of the Journal of Music Theory (52/2:2008) is dedicated to Professor Fuller. The volume was edited by Professor Jennifer Bain (PhD, Stony Brook) and contributors include: Cristle Collins Judd, Elizabeth Aubrey, Rebecca Maloy, Virginia Newes, Jennifer Bain, and a new article by Sally. Joanna Kaczorowska, violin (DMA and Assistant Professor), and Pablo Lavandera, piano (DMA, and Visiting Scholar) 2009 First Prize for Collaborative Artists in the Liszt-Garrison Competition, including another award for "Best Interpretation." The prize includes several performances in the United States and a performance at the 2010 Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. For more information on this prize, see this link. |