ACS Composers
Forum Adds Two Members
Davidson College
and Southwestern University have added members to the ACS Composers Forum
bringing to nine the number of ACS institutions represented in this group.
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 Jennifer
Stasack, Associate Professor of Music at Davidson College, combines
creative and ethnomusicological interests by drawing on aesthetics and
formal designs indigenous to non-western musical systems in her compositional
work. Awards include individual artist's fellowships from the NEA and the
North Carolina Arts Council, grants from Meet the Composer, Arts International,
and the Korean Performing Arts Institute, and annual ASCAP Standard Awards.
Residencies include the MacDowell Colony, the Korean Traditional Performing
Arts Center, Akademi Seni Karawitan (Java), and fieldwork in India and
Japan. Stasack's works have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe,
Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and Korea
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 Jason
Hoogerhyde studied Composition with Allen Gimbel, Joyce Mekeel,
Lukas Foss, Allen Sapp, Samuel Adler, Darrell Handel, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
His experiences as a composer include artist-residencies at the Ucross
Foundation and the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, a Meet-the-Composer grant,
and participation in the MUSIC 96'-99' contemporary music festivals, Cincinnati,
OH. Dr. Hoogerhyde's works for voice, keyboard, chamber ensembles and orchestra,
have been performed in France, China, the Philippines, and throughout the
United States, including the Ohio Music and the World Series, the University
of Kentucky's American Music Week, and at Weill Recital Hall in New York.
As an instructor, he received the University of Cincinnati's Excellence
in Teaching Award, and before joining the faculty of Southwestern University
in the Fall of 2004, Dr. Hoogerhyde taught for five years at Lawrence University's
Conservatory of Music. He also served for two years as classical music
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2005 Student Composition
Contest Guidelines
ACS student
composers are invited to submit scores for the fourth annual ACS Student
Composition Contest. Students must be enrolled in music composition studies
at an Associated Colleges of the South or NITLE Southern Region institution
during the 2004-2005 academic year. Complete guidelines for entry are
available on the ACS website at: www.colleges.org/~music/ACScontest.html |
Hindman Receives
Composition Awards
 Birmingham-Southern
Prof. Dorothy Hindman has been named co-winner of the solo division of
the 2004 International Society of Bassists Competition for her work Time
Management. She will be a guest composer at the 2005 ISB convention
at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. In addition her Psalm
121 has been selected as winner of the 2005 Almquist Choral Composition
Award. The award includes a residency at Murray State for the 2005
ATHENA Festival and the premier of the work by the MSU Concert Choir.
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Birmingham-Southern
to Host 2005 Festival
The fourth
annual ACS New Music Festival and Workshop will be held at Birmingham-Southern
College in July 2005. Details about exact dates will be announced shortly.
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