New Music Festival Features Three Guest Composers
The 2009 Truman State University New Music Festival will include two free public concerts featuring music by three guest composers and eight local composers performed by over two hundred musicians. Six world premiere performances are included. Those are the numbers, now here are the facts!
Featured guest composers include:
Vivian Fung, winner of the international 2009 Truman State-MACRO Composition Competition
John Mayrose, winner of the international 2009 Percussive Arts Society Composition Competition
Randy Haldeman, internationally-recognized composer, conductor and clinician of choral music
Vivian Fung currently teaches at The Juilliard School of Music and has quickly gained a prominent worldwide reputation for her stirring and highly original music, which reflects her interest in world cultures. The music of John Mayrose, who has taught music and electronic music courses at Duke University, is widely performed and has also gained international recognition. Randy Haldeman, Director of Choral Studies at the University or North Carolina-Charlotte, is widely respected as a composer, performer and conductor.
All three composers have extensive performance histories and have been recipients of many awards and prestigious commissions.
Concert I of the New Music Festival will take place on Thursday, October 29, at 7:30 PM in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall on the Truman State campus. The concert will feature music by all three guest composers, including premieres of newly-commissioned works composed by Fung and Mayrose. Truman State ensembles performing that evening will include the Clarinet Choir, Percussion Ensemble I, Wind Symphony I, the President’s String Quartet and two choirs—Cantoria and the Chamber Choir.
Concert II will take place on Friday, October 30, at 1:30 PM, also in the Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall. The concert will feature acoustic and electronic music by Vivian Fung and by seven local composers performed by Truman State faculty and students.
The festival is sponsored by the Epsilon Pi chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, the Upsilon Phi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the Mostly Live Composers Society and the Truman State Department of Music.