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Todd Coleman is the academic coordinator of the Music Technology program at Elon University in North Carolina and was recently granted tenure and promoted to associate professor. Much of Coleman's work since joining the Elon faculty in late 2007 has focused on creating the new curriculum and facilities, and providing a strong artistic, musical and technical foundation for the new degree program and nurture its continued growth. Coleman's recent composition activities span a wide range of styles and genres including a 20-minute flute concerto for April Clayton commissioned by the Barlow Endowment due to be released on the Tantara record label, a 13-minute work for wind ensemble commissioned by thirteen universities, a theme song written for Elon University's current $100 million fundraising campaign called, "Ever Elon," and co-writing songs in popular/commercial genres with his students. His current composition project is a large interdisciplinary/transmedia art work for chorus, amplified cello, three-screen video projection and surround sound entitled, "Three Scenes in Jerusalem," which deals with glimpses into the final dramatic moments of the mortal life of Christ in Gethsemane, Golgotha, and the Garden Tomb.
Stacy Garrop's recent premieres include The Lovely Sirens and The Fates of Man, (the third and fourth movements of her Mythology Symphony), commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra as part of her 2009/2010 residence with the Symphony. She also received premiere performances of a co-commissioned piece entitled Frammenti by the Rembrandt Chamber Players, Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, and Arizona State University faculty performers. Other recent performances of her work have been given by the Biava Quartet, Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, Lincoln Trio, University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, Chicago a Cappella, South Bend Chamber Singers, and Volti.
Stacy’s Sonnets of Beauty and Music was recorded by Volti and commercially released in 2010 on Innova Records on their CD entitled “Turn the Page”; also this year, Ravello Records released Amy Briggs’ “Tangos for Piano” that included Stacy’s Teeny Tango. Cedille Records will release two recordings in 2011 containing Stacy’s works. In February, they released “In Eleanor’s Words: In Stacy’s Notes: Music of Stacy Garrop,” which contains her String Quartet No. 3: Gaia, Silver Dagger, and In Eleanor’s Words with performances by the Biava Quartet, Lincoln Trio, mezzo-soprano Buffy Baggott and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang. The second CD, to be released in the spring, is titled “Notable Women: Music by Today’s Female Composers” and will feature the Lincoln Trio’s recording of her piece SEVEN.
Stacy has previously received two grants from the Barlow Endowment.
David Rakowski (the name means quality) was the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composer at the University of Utah in April, and was a visiting distinguished composer at the Eastman School of Music shortly thereafter. He finished his monumental set of 100 piano études, several of which were premiered at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival and the Ohio Music Teachers Association conference in Cleveland. Pieces receiving premieres inclued “AhChim AnGae” for Korean fiddle and string trio (Pacific Rim Festival), “Double Fantasy” for piano trio (Finisterra Trio, New York City), “Étude-Fantasies” (various children’s duos, California Music Teachers Association conference, LA), “Cell’Out” (4 ‘cellos, Music From Salem, New York) and “Current Conditions”, which was commissioned by the US Marine Chamber Orchestra for a children’s concert. “Phillis Levin Songs” had its New York premiere with Judith Bettina and the New York New Music Ensemble. In the fall he was resident at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Three doctoral dissertations on his piano études were defended in 2010.
2010 marked the release of two recordings of Ethan Wickman’s music. Angles of Repose was recorded by the Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble on Innova, and Namasté for String Quartet (a Barlow-commissioned work) was recorded by the Avalon String Quartet for Albany. In the coming year, Wickman’s piano music, as performed by Nicholas Phillips will be the exclusive content of a CD released by Albany records. Other current projects include works to be recorded by violinist Scott Conklin, and Euphoniumist Steven Mead. As winner of the 2011 Chamber Music Commission from the Utah Arts Festival, a new work will be composed for the 2011 festival. Wickman also received recognition as a nominee for the Orpheus 440 Project, in addition to being long-listed for a Grammy nomination in the “Best Contemporary Classical Composition Category” for Angles of Repose.
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