Josh Levine, Adjunct Asst Professor, 2015
Nomi Epstein, Adjunct Asst Professor, 2016
Christopher Jette, Director LOUI
Bernard Short, Research Asst CNM
Nima Hamidi, Research Asst CW
The composers and musicians who took part in the EMCC Festival, April 2015.
CNM's 2015-16 Season Concert Review
— All concerts are free and open to the public —
Concert I
University of Iowa Student Chapter of The Society of Composers, Inc.
24 + 24 Hour Concert
Sunday, September 20, 2015, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Concert II
The CNM Ensemble
performing works of guest composers
David Lang and Josh Levine
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Hans Abrahamsen, Robert Moran and David Gompper
Sunday, September 27, 2015, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Concert III
Composers' Workshop
a concert of works by UI composers' recent works
adjudicated and chosen by their peers
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Sunday, November 1, 2015, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
Concert IV
UI Composers on Tour
at the MidWest Composers Symposium, hosted by the
School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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Saturday, November 7, 2015
Concert V
The JACK Quartet
performing new works by UI student composers
Friday, December 4, 2015, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Concert VI
The JACK Quartet
performing works by guest Caroline Shaw
with works by John Zorn and Elliott Sharp
Saturday, December 5, 2015, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Concert VII
The CNM Ensemble
featuring
guest composer Caroline Shaw and
guest cellist Kevin McFarland
Sunday, December 6, 2015, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Concert VIII
The Laptop Orchestra at UI (LOUI)
presenting works by
Bruno Ruviaro, Eoin Callery, John Thompson and Scott Cazan
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Saturday, December 12, 2015, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
Concert IX
CNM Ensemble
performing works by guest composer Dan Welcher with
Bruno Maderna's Oboe Concerto No. 1
Zack Stanton's Horn Concerto.
Sunday, February 14, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Concert X
with Guest cellist Craig Hultgren, featuring works for acoustic cello and cello with electonics, selected from a November deadline call for submissions by the Iowa Composers Forum.
Saturday, February 20, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Craig Hultgren is a graduate of the University of Iowa School of Music (B.M. 1977) and was a cellist with the Center for New Music (1990-91). He was a member of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra from 1982 to 2015 and performed frequently as a soloist and with numerous chamber ensembles and contemporary performing groups, including the Chagall Trio, the Luna Nova Ensemble, and Thámyris. He taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Alabama School of Fine Arts and Birmingham-Southern College where he directed the BSC New Music Ensemble.
Concert XI
Annual SCI Student Chapter Concert
Sunday, February 28, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
The works to be performed at this concert will be those selected from the 2015-16 SCI Iowa Chapter Call for Scores. In 2012, the call for scores garnered over 100 submissions from students all over the world, which were adjudicated by the SCI members in the composition program at the University of Iowa.
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Concerts XII & XIII
Composers' Workshop and Tour
A concert of works by UI composers to be also performed at the
EXCHANGE OF MIDWESTERN COLLEGIATE COMPOSERS
held at Boulder, Colorado on April 9, 2016.
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Sunday, April 3, 2016, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
Concert XIV
The Laptop Orchestra at UI (LOUI)
Saturday, April 23, 2016, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Concert XV
Are We Not All New Troubadours and Trobairitz?
presenting works by Christopher Jette, Nomi Epstein,
Irina Dubkova, Brett Dean and Adam Greene
Sunday, April 24, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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Concert XVI
Composers' Workshop
The Season 50 final concert of works by UI composers
Sunday, May 8, 2016, 7:30pm
Riverside Recital Hall (map)
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