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Composition Studies / News & Events

2015
February 19, 2015

Andrew Babcock's doctoral composition recital will take place in MUB 101, 5:30pm.

February 19, 2015
Wind Ensemble Concert featuring works by Daniel Kellogg, University Auditorium, 7:30pm.

February 20, 2015
Special guest Daniel Kellogg will present a Master Class with UF composition students, room MUB 101, 10:00am.

February 20, 2015
Contemporary Music Convocation featuring UF student performers, MUB 101, 12:50pm.

February 20, 2015
Daniel Kellogg will give a presentation about his creative works, MUB 101, 3:00pm.

February 20, 2015
Unbalanced Connection Concert: electroacoustic works, including works by Katharina Rosenberger, MUB 101, 7:30pm.

February 21, 2015
Katharina Rosenberger Master Class with UF composition students, MUB 101, 10:00am.

February 21, 2015
Student Composers Concert, MUB 101, 1:00pm.

February 21, 2015
Nuclear Music: UF’s new music ensemble, MUB 101, 3:00pm.

February 21, 2015
Bugallo-Williams piano duo concert, MUB 101, 7:30pm.

February 22, 2015
Bugallo-Williams piano duo presentation, MUB 101, 10:00am.

February 22, 2015
Katharina Rosenberger presentation on her creative works, MUB 101, 12:00pm.

February 22, 2015
Concert featuring the complete Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage, performed by pianist Amy Williams, MUB 101, 3:00pm.

February 22, 2015
Closing concert featuring works by Daniel Kellogg and Katharina Rosenberger, MUB 101, 7:30pm.

Upcoming UF-composer events elsewhere:

Spring 2015
Andrew Babcock's piece Heteroglot will be featured on the upcoming SEAMUS Electroacoustic Miniatures Recording Series: Transients.

Spring 2015
Neal Facciuto will continue to serve as composer in residence for the Oregon East Symphony. He was recently a featured artist by the Eastern Oregonian: Composer-in-residence brings eclectic background.

Jan. 31, 2015
Paul Richards' Concerto for Violin, Guitar, and Bear Mountain was performed at the Florida State University New Music Festival in Tallahassee, FL.

December 27, 2014
Neal Facciuto's Headwaters of the Umatilla was performed by members of the Oregon East Symphony at the Vert Auditorium, Pendleton, OR.

December 2, 2014
Dr. Peter Lane's Anonymous Dances, a concert suite arranged from selections fromHackPolitik, was  premiered by the SUNY Purchase Contemporary Music Ensemble.

October 18, 2014
Dr. Peter Lane's Studies in Momentum (for piano and live electronics), was commissioned by pianist Keith Kirchoff and premiered in Boston: http://www.keithkirchoff.com/Upcoming%20Concerts.html

October 13 - November 2, 2014
Andrew Babcock served as an associate artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts' residency with UK composer Jonty Harrison.

October 7, 2014
Award winning composer Jonty Harrison's works were performed in  the UF Music Building.

September 18, 2014
Andrew Babcock's piece Transformations was performed at ICMC in Athens, Greece.

Fall 2014
Dr. Richards "On the Art of Making Bread" was chosen as one of the winners of Concert of Millennials 2014 call for scores:
http://www.concertofmillennials.com/call-for-scores-2014.html

August 8, 2014
Dr. Paul Richards wins the Columbia Summer Winds Outdoor Composition Competition
http://www.columbiasummerwinds.org/news/2014/8/8/2014-outdoor-composition-contest-winner

Fall 2014
Dr. Peter Van Zandt Lane joined the University of Florida Theory and Composition Faculty as Visiting Assistant Professor of Composition for the 2014-15 academic yearhttp://www.petervanzandtlane.com/

Fall 2014
Dr. Peter Lane receives a Barlow General Commission for the EQ Ensemble
http://barlow.byu.edu/Pages/index.html

Fall 2014
Dr. Peter Lane's HackPolitik, was awarded 2nd place in the American Prize in Composition (staged works division):
http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2014/09/composition-winner-runners-up-more.html

September 25, 2014
Dr. Peter Lane's Hivemind  received its Australian premiere at the Sydney Conservatorium.
http://music.sydney.edu.au/events/greenway-series-wind-symphony-25-09-2014. Other upcoming performances of Hivemind include the USA premiere by the University of Illinois Wind Ensemble (directed by Linda Moorehouse, a UF Alumn), and a performance in the spring at the CBDNA conference.

July 2014
Neal Facciuto was awarded a year-long residency with the Oregon East Symphony for the 2014-15 year.

February 2014
Andrew Babcock's work Anagoge, which received a special mention at the 2012 Metamorphoses acousmatic composition competition, has been released on CD on the Musiques & Recherches label, available through empreintes DIGITALes.

February 2014
Benjamin O'Brien's paper Lost in Transformation: Composer as Translator was published in the Canadian Electroacoustic Community online journal eContact! (16.3).

February 28, 2014
Rob Seaback's work seed. signal. was performed at the 14th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium presented by the Ammerman Center at Connecticut College.

March 19-22, 2014
Benjamin O'Brien presented his work OSCines at the Slingshot Music and Arts Festival 2014 in Athens, GA.

March 27-29, 2014
Professor Paul Koonce and PhD students Andrew Babcock, Benjamin O'Brien, and Rob Seaback presented works at the 2014 Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

December 14-15, 2013
Benjamin O'Brien presented his work OSCines at the International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology, Kainan University School of Informatics, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

December 6-13, 2013
Andrew Babcock and Benjamin O'Brien presented their works Nastymouf andBabyBirdBeat, respectively, at the Música Viva Festival, Lisbon, Portugal.

November 8-9, 2013
Benjamin O'Brien presented his work OSCines at the Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, University of Kent, Kent, UK.

October 24-26, 2013
Rob Seaback presented his work seed. signal. for piano and electronics at Electronic Music Midwest in Kansas City, Kansas.

October 4, 11, and 12, 2013
Professor Paul Richards's opera Biennale was premiered at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.

August 11-17, 2013
Andrew Babcock, Benjamin O'Brien, and Rob Seaback presented their worksPianolancheOSCines, and seed. signal., respectively, at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2013 conference in Perth, AU.

August 15-17, 2013
Garrett Hecker presented his work Two Minutes Walking at the PARMA festival/SCI Region 1 Conference in NH.

August 14-17, 2013
Andrew Babcock and Benjamin O'Brien presented their works Pianolanche andOSCines, respectively, at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2013, Toronto, CA.

June 17-29, 2013
Garrett Hecker participated in the Charlotte New Music Festival in North Carolina, lecturing about his work and premiering new compositions.

June 16, 2013
Benjamin O'Brien presented his work Diptiq at the Musical Metacreation (MUME) Weekend 2013 at the Sydney Design Lab, Sydney, AU.

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