SCHOOL OF MUSIC – Indiana State University, Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809 CELEBRATING 50 YEARS

Tuesday, October 25 – Friday, October 28, 2016featuring the music of Libby Larsen and James Beckel

INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

50th Contemporary Music FestivalOCTOBER 25 – 28, 2016

The School of Music at Indiana State University welcomes all participants to the performances, seminars, sessions, and other events that make up this 50th Contemporary Music Festival. The school expresses its appreciation to the guest performers,

composers, and scholars; to the local and extended audience; and to the sponsoring agencies that have made this festival possible.

Guest OrchestraThe Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra

Matthew Kraemer, Music Director

Principal Guest ComposersLibby Larsen and James Beckel

Composition Contest WinnerReinaldo Moya

Guest SoloistsJeff Nelsen, horn; Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano

Guest EnsembleShattered Glass Ensemble

Music Now Composition Contest WinnersTaylor Ackley; Jack Frerer; Salvatore LoCascio; Suzanne Sorkin; Harry Stafylakis

School of Music

Terre Haute, Indiana 47809www.indstate.edu/cas/cmf

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 6:30 p.m. Pre-Concert: Community School of the Arts Adult African Drum Class7:30 p.m. Concert: Faculty and Guest Artist Recital .................................. page 5 Clara Osowski, guest vocalist University Hall Theaterpost-concert Reception University Hall, Atrium

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 7:30 p.m. Concert: Guest Ensemble Recital ..................................................page 7 Shattered Glass Ensemble University Hall Theaterpost-concert Reception University Hall, Atrium

Thursday, October 27, 2016 9:00 a.m. Session: Principal Guest Composer, Libby Larsen Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 159 10:30 a.m. Concert: ISU Student Performer and Composer Recital ......... page 8 Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Recital Hall 1:30 p.m. Session: Principal Guest Composer, James Beckel Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 1503:00 p.m. Concert: ISU Faculty and Friends Chamber Recital ................page 10 Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Recital Hall4:30 p.m. Open Rehearsal: The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Tirey Hall, Tilson Auditorium6:30 p.m. Concert Comments: CMF/ICO Composition Contest Winner Tirey Hall, Tilson Auditorium

7:30 p.m. Concert: The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra ..........................page 11 Tirey Hall, Tilson Auditoriumpost-concert Reception Tirey Hall, Heritage Ballroom

Friday, October 28, 2016 9:00 a.m. Session: Creative Connections with Libby Larsen and Clara Osowski Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 15910:30 a.m. Concert: ISU Faculty and Friends Chamber Recital ................page 12 Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Recital Hall1:30 p.m. Session: Music Now Composers Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Room 1593:00 p.m. Concert: Music Now Recital ..........................................................page 13 Landini Center for Performing and Fine Arts, Recital Hall7:30 p.m. Concert: ISU Ensembles ................................................................page 14 ISU Student and Faculty Ensembles Tirey Hall, Tilson Auditorium

Principal Guest Composer: Libby Larsen ............................................................page 15Principal Guest Composer: James Beckel ..........................................................page 15Composition Contest Winner: Reinaldo Moya .....................................................page 15Guest Soloist: Jeff Nelsen, horn ............................................................................page 16Guest Soloist: Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano ..................................................page 16Guest Ensemble: Shattered Glass Ensemble ......................................................page 16Music Now Composers ............................................................................................page 17Guest Orchestra: The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra ...................................page 17 Matthew Kraemer, Music Director ............................................ page 18Past Participants ......................................................................................................page 20Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................page 24

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History of the Contemporary Music FestivalBy Kathleen Hansen Sabaini

Solomon’s proposal led to another meeting, when foundation officials met in New York with ISU Department of Music chairperson James Barnes, along with William Thomson and Wilfred Bain, theory chair and dean, respectively, of the Indiana University School of Music. The foundation agreed to make a grant to the Indiana State Symphony Society Inc. to fund premiere performances of symphonic works by American composers to be presented in Terre Haute and Bloomington. A nationwide advertisement called for scores that were screened by ISU music faculty members Sanford Watts and Jon Polifrone, further evaluated by Barnes, and turned over to Solomon for final selection. The result? The first Symposium of Contemporary American Music at Indiana State University—several open rehearsals and one orchestral concert—took place May 8-11, 1967, after a week of similar activities at Indiana University. Since then, the mission of the festival has grown to give students a glimpse of the lives of professional composers, performers, critics, and scholars; to promote the work of young American composers; and to generate public interest in modern music. It stands alone among other contemporary music festivals by emphasizing symphonic music and featuring a major professional orchestra.

Over the last fifty years, the festival has featured numerous nationally and internationally known performers, conductors, and composers. Seventeen of them now have the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and four have received the Grawemeyer Award. Some of them were guests of the festival several years before they received these awards. Festival planners built into the program lectures, symposia, open rehearsals, and social events to foster interaction between the visiting musicians and the public. An annual competition for orchestral compositions, part of the festival since its inception, has provided many young composers with the invaluable experience of hearing their works rehearsed and performed by a professional orchestra. After the festival’s first two years, however, foundation support ceased. ISU President Alan Rankin, a musician himself, saw not only the artistic value of the event but also the prestige it had brought to the institution and allocated university funds to keep the festival going. In 1971, under the leadership of ISU percussionist Neil Fluegel, the format of the festival underwent major changes. One well-established composer—that year it was Michael Colgrass, who would win the Pulitzer in 1978—was invited to participate with the competition winners. A solo and chamber ensemble concert by faculty and students, featuring the chamber music of the participating composers, was added. The daytime event schedule was expanded as

When Izler Solomon, conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, approached the Rockefeller Foundation in September 1965, he had in mind a foundation-supported project involving the orchestra and colleges and universities in the Indianapolis area. Solomon told Martin Bookspan, the foundation’s music consultant, that foundation support could add a week to the ISO concert season. The orchestra in turn would devote the week to publicly rehearsing and performing music by American composers, giving preference to works that had not been performed before in the Indianapolis area. This meeting was the genesis of Indiana State University’s Contemporary Music Festival, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

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orchestra section leaders held master classes, and the principal guest composer led a composition seminar. The additions have been preserved, with some changes, since that time. Newspaper reports of the first few festivals describe a fairly conventional event, but coverage of the 1971 festival indicated a new underlying political agenda: a break with traditional Western culture. Events included a modern-dance workshop, a seminar in multimedia composition, and a synthesizer demonstration. “Music to the People,” the title of the special festival edition of the ISU student newspaper, mirrored the anti-elitism that had begun to pervade higher education. The idea that art music could be relevant to youth was reflected by concert programs and newspaper articles equating these young, longhaired composers in blue jeans with the iconoclastic masters of the century’s earlier years. Now the emphasis was on student involvement: performing, composing, and participating in panel discussions. They no longer just observed musicians and composers as role models on a stage or in front of a class, but interacted with them at their instruments, at the lunch table, or on the softball field. The 1972 festival died in a strike by Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra union musicians, but in 1973 the festival continued to move in new directions. Over the next several years, the musical emphasis was on experimental composition and performance techniques of the late-twentieth century. In the first three festivals, only one composition—Charles Wuorinen’s Orchestral and Electronic Exchanges (1967)—included non-orchestral elements. But electronic and synthesized music soon became an annual component of the festival. Atonality, twelve-tone and total serialism, multimedia, and aleatoric compositional methods were represented, as were the influences of ethnic musical styles, jazz, and rock. Some representative guest composers were David Cope, Ross Lee Finney, and Will Gay Bottje. Nonstandard notation became commonplace. Slides, films, and other visual elements were introduced. Altered instruments (such as prepared piano) and unfamiliar techniques (such as plucked or bowed piano) were used. Much attention was given to world premiere pieces. The festival clearly reflected the “do your own thing” era. For several years, many were attracted to the novelty of the festival. But public tastes change with time, and the inflation of the late-1970s made it increasingly difficult to keep up with festival expenses. The culminating orchestral concert was made a part of the university’s Convocation Series. Neo-Romantic principal guest composers—such

as Ned Rorem, George Rochberg, and William Bolcom—spoke frankly of their desire to communicate with their audience. Selection of chamber ensembles began to favor nationally known groups over regionally recognized ones. Music critics from major publications were invited and led student writing seminars. Faculty began to require students to attend the festival and, often, to write related class papers. The Louisville Orchestra, which made its reputation in the 1950s for commissioning and performing contemporary music, began participating in 1987. Some of the social changes of the previous decades, however, began to leave their mark: women composers like Joan Tower and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich began to be integrated into the festival, and members of the Kronos Quartet preferred T-shirts and leather jackets to formal wear. During the 1980s, festival planners had to do more with less, and over the decade they reduced the number of competition winners to one, returned to the single orchestral concert format, and condensed the festival from four days to three. Getting funding for the festival was a continuing struggle, and several times the future of the festival was in doubt. However, overwhelming support from the music faculty, growing audience interest, and increasing national recognition of the respect for the festival persuaded the university administration to provide the means for it to continue. Although public funding for many projects was cut drastically during the period, the festival was beginning to receive grants from government and corporate sources. The introduction of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra as the festival’s guest orchestra in 2007 helped to reestablish its connection to Indiana’s outstanding arts organizations. In fact, the 2007 festival featured an all-Indiana cast, including the guest composer, the composition winner, the guest orchestra, and the guest chamber ensemble. While the principal guests may change, however, the primary goal of the festival remains true to its roots - to introduce students to the everyday work of professional musicians and to present new music to the public. No one can predict the result of the synthesis of these ideas. But one thing is certain: if art music of any style is to remain alive, it music continue to grow. Indiana State University’s Contemporary Music Festival is one event that encourages that growth. It is to be hoped that universities everywhere will persevere in such encouragement for the enrichment of our culture and our lives.

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Grand Sycamore Fanfare Libby Larsen (b. 1950)Paul Bro, alto saxophone

Kurt Fowler, cello

Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers Libby Larsen I. Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers - Elizabeth Barrett Browning II. Liebeslied - Rainer Maria Rilke III. Do you know - Rainer Maria Rilke IV. White World - Hilda Doolittle V. Music, when soft voices die - Percy Byssh Shelley VI. Go from me - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Clara Osowski, mezzo-sopranoKurt Fowler, cello

Martha Krasnican, piano

Faculty and Guest Artist RecitalTuesday, October 25, 2016, University Hall Theater

6:30 pm: Pre-Concert performance by Community School of the Arts Adult African Drum Class Colleen Haas, director

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

The Indiana State University Community School of the Arts (CSA) provides the communities of the Wabash Valley and surrounding areas the opportunity to participate in non-credit classes in music, theater, visual art and private music lessons. The CSA welcomes students

of all ages, backgrounds and ability levels to experience professional and affordable instruction in the performing and fine arts.

7:30 pm: ISU Faculty with special guest Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano

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Dialogues James A. Beckel Jr. (b. 1948) I. “A sense of urgency” II. “End of an Era” III. “Can’t we agree to disagree?” IV. Homage to Music

Kelley Rogers Niiyama, clarinet; Erik Rohde, violin; Kurt Fowler, cello Martha Krasnican, piano; Nick Olson, percussion

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Sifting Through the Ruins Libby Larsen I. ...Jeff Hardy… - anon. II. To the Towers Themselves - anon. III. Don’t look for me anymore - Alicia Vasquez

Clara Osowski, mezzo-sopranoErik Rohde, viola

Martha Krasnican, piano

Love after 1950 Libby Larsen I. Boy’s Lips - Rita Dove II. Blonde Men - Julie Kane III. Big Sister Say, 1967 - Kathryn Daniels IV. The Empty Song - Liz Lochead V. I Make My Magic - Muriel Rukeyser

Clara Osowski, mezzo-sopranoMartha Krasnican, piano

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Transition Behavior Pascal Le Boeuf (b. 1986)

Evening in the Palace of Reason Libby Larsen (b. 1950)

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Entr’acte Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)

Sinfonietta per archi Kryzstoff Penderecki (b. 1933)

Guest Ensemble RecitalWednesday, October 26, 2016, 7:30 pm, University Hall Theater

Shattered Glass Ensemble

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Grand Sycamore Fanfare Libby Larsen (b. 1950)ISU Steel Drum Band

Nick Olson & Jimmy Finnie, tenor pan; Stephen Sholey, double second pansMegan Casas, triple guitar pans; Tyler Brown, bass pans

4 Rotations Pour Marimba Eric Sammut (b. 1962)Jaxson Schuessler, marimba

Blonde Men Libby Larsen (b. 1950)Laura Fultz-Sprouls, mezzo soprano; Sharilyn Spicknall, piano

A Pig in the House Libby LarsenSeth Jines, tenor; Martha Krasnican, piano

The Call and Awakening from The Glass Bead Game James Beckel (b. 1948)Nancy Bernal, horn; Martha Krasnican, piano

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come Daniel Powers (b. 1960)I Would in that Sweet Bosom Be Ben Moore (b. 1960)

Logan Williams, tenor; David Gibbs, piano

ISU Student Performer and Composer RecitalThursday, October 27, 2016, 10:30 am, Recital Hall

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Tristan and Isolde from Celtic Romance for Flute Ensemble Dakota Jones (b. 1994)ISU Flute Choir

Ricardo Gil, Zachary Davis, Stephen Mead, Dr. Joyce Wilson, flutesKarissa Mills, piccolo; Carlee Schlatter, alto flute; Dakota Jones, bass flute

America Never Was America to Me Mohammed Fairouz (b. 1985)Flint Dollar, piano

Three Simple Songs Henry Mollicone (b. 1946) I. There Is Another Sky II. God Made a Little Gentian III. Poor Little Heart

Katelyn Kendall, soprano; Flint Dollar, piano

Aubade for Solo Flute Libby LarsenRicardo Gil, flute

Toccata from Six Interval Inventions Dan Locklair (b. 1949)Jon Treadway, piano

Michi Keiko Abe (b. 1937)Tyler Blaisdell, marimba

Beyond Reason Kyle Hartzog (b. 1996)Kyle Thomas, soprano saxophone; Zachary McCloud & Jon Allender, alto saxophones

Matt Harvey, tenor saxophone; Kyle Hartzog, baritone saxophone

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Grand Sycamore Fanfare Libby Larsen (b. 1950)ISU Faculty Wind Quintet

Joyce Wilson, flute; Katherine Gunn, oboeKelley Rogers Niiyama, clarinet; Brian Kilp, horn; Chad Roseland, bassoon

Everything Flows (2016) Caroline KyungA Ahn (b. 1975) I. Karma Interlude - Story of the Wind II. Sound of the Wind III. Consciousness

World PremiereCramped Spaces Ensemble

Beverley Simms & Martha Krasnican, pianoJimmy Finnie & Sharon Jackson, percussion

Primitive Modern for Horn and Fixed Media James A. Beckel Jr. (b. 1948)Brian Kilp, horn

Bid Call for alto saxophone and cello Libby Larsen I. Rapidfire II. Traige III. Rapidfire with Bodran

Paul Bro, alto saxophoneKurt Fowler, cello

Blue Windows (after Marc Chagall) Libby LarsenISU Faculty Wind Quintet

Joyce Wilson, flute; Katherine Gunn, oboeKelley Rogers Niiyama, clarinet; Brian Kilp, horn; Chad Roseland, bassoon

with Martha Krasnican, piano

ISU Faculty and Friends Chamber RecitalThursday, October 27, 2016, 3:00 pm, Recital Hall

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Passacaglia for Orchestra Reinaldo Moya (b. 1984)EarShot – Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composer Competition Winner

in collaboration with the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival

The Glass Bead Game for Horn and Chamber Orchestra James A. Beckel Jr. (b. 1948)

Jeff Nelsen, French horn

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Rounds for String Orchestra David Diamond (1915-2005)

What the Monster Saw Libby Larsen (b. 1950)

Indianapolis Chamber OrchestraThursday, October 27, 2016, 7:30 pm, Tilson Auditorium

Matthew Kraemer, Conductor

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Grand Sycamore Fanfare Libby Larsen (b. 1950)

Sorrow Song and Jubilee Libby LarsenISU Faculty String Quartet

Erik Rohde & Sharilyn Spicknall, violinsDonna Clark, viola; Kurt Fowler, cello

Concert Piece for Tuba and Piano Libby LarsenLaura Potter, tuba

Martha Krasnican, piano

Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent Emile Naoumoff (b. 1962) J’ai soif de ton âme Eau printanière O Mort!

Yana Weinstein, mezzo-sopranoAnthony Weinstein, piano

Dark Flow for Bass Clarinet and Fixed Media Dan Powers (b. 1960)Kelley Rogers Niiyama, bass clarinet

Charlas Guillermo Lago (b. 1960) I. confundida II. acogedora III. salvaje IV. sigilosa V. feroz

Paul Bro and Scotty Stepp, alto saxophone

ISU Faculty and Friends Chamber RecitalFriday, October 28, 2016, 10:30 am, Recital Hall

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Grand Sycamore Fanfare Libby Larsen (b. 1950)ISU Women’s Choir

Yana Weinstein, director Andrea Marlow, piano

Never the Same River Harry Stafylakis (b. 1982)Chad Roseland, bassoon; Erik Rohde and Sharilyn Spicknall, violins;

Kurt Fowler, cello; Martha Krasnican, piano

Toward the Other Shore for Solo Violin Suzanne Sorkin (b. 1974)Kia-Hui Tan, violin

Three Dickinson Songs Salvatore LoCascio (b. 1989) Hope is the Thing with Feathers Because I Could Not Stop for Death Look Back on Time with Kindly Eyes

Danielle Steele, soprano and Christopher Ruggiero, piano

Suite for Solo Cello Taylor Ackley (b. 1990) Prelude Two-Step Rag Ballad Breakdown and Stomp Jig

Kurt Fowler, cello

Last In, First Out Jack Frerer (b. 1995)Kelley Rogers Niiyama, clarinet; Erik Rohde, violin; Martha Krasnican, piano

Music Now RecitalFriday, October 28, 2016, 3:00 pm, Recital Hall

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Musica Mobilis James A. Beckel Jr. (b. 1948)ISU Brass Choir

Erik Rohde, conductor

Alleluia Libby Larsen (b. 1950)Nyon Nyon Jake Runestad (b. 1986)

ISU Concert ChoirScott R. Buchanan, director

Trombone Concerto (2013), Wind Version James A. Beckel Jr. I. Moderato maestoso - “More Questions than Answers” II. Adagio religioso poco rubato - “The Search for Truth” III. Maestoso furioso - “Unavoidable consequences”

Randy Mitchell, tromboneISU Wind Orchestra

Roby George, director

The American Dream from “Night Visions” for Symphony Orchestra James A. Beckel Jr.

Raspberry Island Dreaming Libby Larsen I. The river is . . . - Joyce Sutphen II. Where the river bent - Joyce Sutphen III. Raspberry Island - Patricia Hampl

Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano

Grand Sycamore Fanfare Libby LarsenISU Symphony Orchestra

Erik Rohde, director

Final ConcertFriday, October 28, 2016, 7:30 pm, Tilson Auditorium

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Festival GuestsPrincipal Guest Composers

Libby Larsen is one of America’s most performed living composers. She has created a catalogue of over 400 works spanning virtually every genre from intimate vocal and chamber music to massive orchestral works and over twelve operas. Grammy Award winning and widely recorded, including over fifty CDs of her work, she is constantly sought after for commissions and premieres by major artists, ensembles, and orchestras around the world, and has established a permanent place for her works in the concert repertory. As a vigorous, articulate advocate for the music and musicians of our time, in 1973 Larsen co-founded the Minnesota Composers Forum, now the American Composer’s Forum, which has become an invaluable aid for composers in a transitional time for American arts. A former holder of the Papamarkou Chair at John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Larsen has also held residencies with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Charlotte Symphony and the Colorado Symphony. For further inquiries about Libby Larson, please visit libbylarsen.com

James Beckel graduated from the Indiana University School of Music and has been the Principal Trombonist with the Indianapolis Symphony since 1969. He is also on the music faculty at DePauw University and the University of Indianapolis. In addition to these responsibilities he has been a very active composer and arranger. Mr. Beckel was born in Marion, Ohio in 1948. Many original works have been performed by several professional orchestras such as Minneapolis, St. Louis, Atlanta, Houston, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Buffalo, Detroit, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Rochester, Charlotte, Fort Wayne, Rhode Island, Springfield, Evansville, Tampa, Arkansas, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Terre Haute, South Bend, Omaha, Knoxville, Delaware, West Virginia, Chautauqua, and New Mexico, etc. Mr. Beckel has received many composition grants. He has been an Individual Arts Fellow through the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, and recently was one of 50 composers chosen nationwide to be part of the Continental

Harmony Project. “Liberty for All” was written for that commission from Composers Forum. “The Glass Bead Game” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. “The Glass Bead Game: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra” was premiered by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra on November 10, 1997. Kent Leslie was the horn soloist. “The Glass Bead Game” is now available with orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber ensemble written for piano, harp, and percussion, and a version with piano which is published by Hal Leonard Music. Mr. Beckel has also written several works for brass choir and brass quintet. In 2004 the Indianapolis Symphony premiered and commissioned “Fantasy after Schubert” dedicated to their Music Director, Mario Venzago, for the opening subscription concerts in celebration of their 75th season. For further inquiries about James Beckel, please visit www.jimbeckelmusic.com

Composition Contest Winner

Reinaldo Moya is the recipient of the 2015 McKnight Composers Fellowship, the Van Lier Fellowship from Meet the Composer and the Aaron Copland Award from the Copland House. He graduated from The Juilliard School with both masters and doctorate degrees, under the tutelage of Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser. He has been commissioned by the Minnesota Opera to write a new opera for their Project Opera. An adaptation of Will Weaver’s book Memory Boy, the opera has a libretto by Mark Campbell and was premiered in the spring of 2016. Excerpts from his opera Generalissimo have been performed at Symphony Space, and Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. His orchestral piece Siempre Lunes, Siempre Marzo will be performed by the New Jersey Symphony in July 2016. His music has been performed in Germany, Colombia, Brazil, Australia, Argentina, Venezuela and throughout the United States by performers such as the Juilliard Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Attacca Quartet as well as musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, among others. Mr. will join the faculty at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the fall of 2016 as Assistant Professor of Composition. He has served on the faculty at St. Olaf, and Macalester colleges in Minnesota.

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Guest Soloists

Jeff Nelsen, horn soloist

One of the many Canadian pig-farm-raised magician horn players in the world, Jeff Nelsen has thrilled audiences and mentored students for over twenty years. Probably best known for the eight years he spent touring and recording with Canadian Brass, Jeff has also performed concerti and chamber music on six continents, and in the horn sections of dozens of orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, and the Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Montreal, and St. Louis Symphonies. He is professor of horn at the prestigious Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and is founder of Fearless Performance LLC, a company that focuses on training musicians and more to consistently perform their best. Since giving his celebrated 2011 TEDx Talk about Fearless Performance Jeff has been training fellow TED Talk presenters, teachers, athletes, and business people into giving their own Fearless Performances as well. A huge Broadway musical fan, Jeff played the premiere run of two Broadway shows that were nominated for Tony awards—“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (Sherman Brothers) and “The Pirate Queen” (Boublil and Schönberg). Jeff has toured with Michael Bolton and Barry Manilow, has recorded with Michael Buble and the pop band “Barenaked Ladies,” and has performed on dozens of movie and video game soundtracks. Jeff most enjoys performing with his wife, mezzo-soprano Nina Yoshida Nelsen, on recital and orchestral pops series. Jeff gives back to the music community through his roles as President of the International Horn Society and as a member of the board of advisors for the International Horn Competition of America. Aside from creating musical magic, Jeff is an enthusiastic magician, and often adds touches of illusionary arts to performances. He recently reached a childhood dream of becoming a magician member of the Academy of Magical Arts at the world famous Magic Castle. For more information please visit www.jeffnelsen.com.

Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano

Hailed for her artistry and “rich and radiant” voice (Urban Dial Milwaukee), Clara Osowski is an active soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. She was a 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Upper-Midwest Regional Finalist, the winner of the 2014 Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artists Competition in Milwaukee, and recently named the runner-up in the 2016 Schubert Club Bruce P. Carlson Scholarship Competition. Clara received her Bachelor of Musical Arts degree with emphasis in Voice from North Dakota State University, and Master of Arts Degree in Voice from the University of Iowa.

Clara’s passion for contemporary music is exhibited in the song-cycles she has premiered by numerous composers with the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa, and her most recent collaborations with Linda Tutas Huagen (Gjendine’s Lullaby), Paul Rudoi (Midnight Songs) and James Kallembach (St. John Passion and Songs on Letters of John and Abigail Adams). As a recitalist, she recently completed the Vancouver International Song Institute, the International Workshop on the songs of Edvard Grieg in Bergen, Norway, and traveled to Tours, France to attend the Académie Francis Poulenc. In 2015, she was the only American to reach the finals of the Das Lied competition under the direction of Thomas Quasthoff in Berlin, Germany. In collaboration with pianist Mark Bilyeu and composer Libby Larsen, Clara serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Source Song Festival, a week-long art song festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This festival strives to create and perform new art song, and cultivate an educational environment for students of song, including composers, vocalists, and collaborative pianists. In addition to her solo work and private teaching, she participates in a number of ensembles, including Consortium Carissimi, Lumina Women’s Ensemble, Rose Ensemble and Seraphic Fire. For more information, please visit www.claraosowski.com.

Guest Ensemble

In 2012 a group of friends in New York City came together to form a conductorless string ensemble that was truly collaborative and self-operated. Virtuosic and versatile, Shattered Glass has performed repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach and W.A. Mozart to Krzysztof Penderecki and crossover projects with Grammy®-nominated hip-hop artists. From the concert hall to the salon, Shattered Glass adapts in size to fit the venue and repertoire, transforming from an intimate duo to a full chamber orchestra—at times within a single performance. In the spirit of collaboration, Shattered Glass members regularly rotate the role of principal player and participate in a democratic system for creating and selecting programs. The result is a fresh and exciting approach to all aspects of performance which has led to a wide array of opportunities: A self-governed Midwest tour, performances at high profile events such as at TEDxEAST, a Carnegie Hall premiere at Zankel Hall in 2013, and a performance in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in 2014 featuring violin soloist Alexander Markov. Equally active in educational outreach, Shattered Glass has worked with hundreds of young artists at schools and programs in New York, New Jersey, Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan. Keeping collaboration at the center of it all gives Shattered Glass its unique personality, and as put by The New York Concert Review: “With a core of such talented and enthusiastic young players, the future should be bright.” For more information please visit shattered-glass.org.

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Music Now Composers

Taylor Ackley is a performer and composer of Classical, Jazz and Traditional American Music from Washington State. As an undergraduate, he attended Adelphi University where he studied classical vocal performance, jazz bass and composition. Taylor is currently a graduate student at Stony Brook University, where he has studied composition with Daria Semegen, Perry Goldstein, Margaret Schedel and Ray Anderson. Along with his substantial success as a multi-instrumentalist, Taylor has been commissioned by a number of choirs, ensembles and jazz bands including significant projects for The Peninsula Singers and Discernment Music. Taylor has composed over 40 original works, which explore the various expressive languages he has learned from his wide range of musical experiences. This has led to a recent compositional output which simultaneously liberates and challenges musicians through a unique combination of guided improvisation and nontraditional notation coupled with an intense reliance on the performer’s own ears.

Jack Frerer is an Australian composer, guitarist, and producer based in New York, currently studying composition with Robert Beaser at The Juilliard School with the help of the Adrian Weller Scholarship and the Steuermann Memorial Prize. Jack has written pieces and arrangements for a number of ensembles and artists including the Ku-Ring-Gai Philharmonic, the Lane Cove Youth Orchestra, as well as chamber and jazz groups, solo artists and bands.

Composer Salvatore A. LoCascio has written for a broad spectrum of performers and mediums, frequently turning to Medieval, Renaissance, Early Baroque and early 20th century compositional techniques as a source of inspiration. A champion of 20th and 21st century vocal music, he often performs in recital and does workshops with students int eh Atlanta area on writing for the human voice. He has had works performed by ensembles of varying ability and sizes across the continental United States. In 2010 he won the Atlanta Mu Phi Epsilon Alumni Scholarship, where he was noted showing “achievement in both performance and composition” after performing excerpts of his own Songs of William Blake song cycle. His recent choral work The Good Shepherd won 2014 Georgia Young Composer’s Festival. Bene, a work for viola and recording utilizing elements of byzantine chant, was selected for a performance at the 2014 Society of Composers Incorporated National Conference.

Suzanne Sorkin (b. 1974) is active as a composer and educator. She has received awards and commissions from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University, Chamber Music Now, Violin Futura, Third Millennium Ensemble, counter)induction, ASCAP, Meet the Composer and others. Her work has been programmed on Piano Spheres in Los Angeles, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society in New York City, Denison University New Music Festival, Chamber Music Quad Cities, Florida State University Festival of New Music, and Vassar Modfest. She has written for ensembles including

Melomanie, Mannes Trio, Cabrini Quartet, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Third Angle, and Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. Residencies awarded to her include Millay Colony for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale Foundation, Artists’ Enclave at I-Park, ART342, Brush Creek, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Chicago through the support of a four-year Century Fellowship in the Humanities. Suzanne Sorkin has taught music composition, theory, and music history at Vassar College. She is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, where she teaches music composition and theory and serves as chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Film.

Harry Stafylakis (b. 1982, Montreal) is a Canadian-American composer based in New York City. His “dreamy yet rhythmic” (NY Times) concert music strives for dramatic emotional and intellectual expression, integrating idioms drawn from classical and popular styles. He is the 2015–16 Composer-in-Residence of the McGill Chamber Orchestra and has been appointed the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s Composer-In-Residence and co-curator of the Winnipeg New Music Festival beginning September 2016. Stafylakis’s works have been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, the Spokane, Stamford, Victoria, and FSU symphonies, and numerous ensembles. He has been featured at the NY Philharmonic Biennial, New Music on the Point, Atlantic Center for the Arts, June In Buffalo, and Montreal International Classical Guitar Festival. His awards include the Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the ASCAP Foundation’s Leonard Bernstein Award, four SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, and grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and NYSCA. Stafylakis holds a B.Mus. from McGill University. He is a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and lectures at the City College of New York. His SSHRC-supported doctoral research, examines the conception of rhythm and meter in progressive metal. For more information please visit www.hstafylakis.com.

Guest Orchestra

The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra (ICO) made its debut on November 18, 1984 as Musicians of the Cloister at Trinity Episcopal Church in Indianapolis. In 1987 the name “Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra” was adopted, and the following year Maestro Kirk Trevor was appointed Music Director. The mission of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra is to advance and promote music composed for the small orchestra through professional performances and educational programs. Comprised of 34 professional musicians chosen by audition, the ICO annually presents a subscription concert series using a variety of formats including, Masterworks and Pops. The ICO Masterworks concerts draw on a body of musical literature spanning four centuries, and the ICO Pops focuses on popular and theatrical genre, all of which are

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scored for the small orchestra. In addition to presenting the full breadth of chamber orchestra repertoire, the ICO’s subscription concerts feature internationally recognized concert artists as well as superior local talent, present aspiring young soloists, and showcase the talents of contemporary composers. The ICO has commissioned several new works and has performed a number of world and American premieres during its 30-year history. ICO performances are also made available to the central Indiana community via weekly WFYI radio broadcasts on Monday evenings at 10 p.m. Operating support for the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra comes from private and government granting agencies, a supportive corporate community, and an increasing base of individual contributors who appreciate the organization’s significant place in the city’s multi-dimensional cultural climate. The ICO is governed by a Board of Directors drawn from the professional, business, educational, and arts communities, and has a professionally managed endowment.

Music Director

Recognized for his “musical sensitivity” and “energized sense of interpretation,” Matthew Kraemer is quickly making his mark among young American conductors for his inspired performances and versatility. The Buffalo News noted recently, “He presents a tall, dignified and stately podium presence with a quite clear beat, a good sense of shaping melodic lines, and an all business attitude that focused on the music without any histrionics.” Following an extensive international search, Mr. Kraemer was recently appointed Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, beginning July 2015. He additionally begins his fourth season as Music Director and Conductor of the Butler County Symphony and the Erie Chamber Orchestra, where he has

reinvigorated both ensembles with innovative programming and elevated performance standards. His active guest conducting schedule has included appearances with many of the nation’s finest orchestras, including the Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Columbus, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Nashville, North Carolina, Saint Louis, Spokane, Syracuse, and Virginia symphony orchestras, as well as Canada’s Mississauga Symphony and Hamilton Philharmonic and in Europe with the Vidin Philharmonic and the Orquesta de Cadaqués. Upcoming season highlights include productions of Michael Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Jonathan Dove’s Mansfield Park with Indianapolis Opera, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with the Erie Chamber Orchestra, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho with live orchestral accompaniment, and performances with Midori and the Metropolitan Opera National Council finalists. The 2015-16 season also brings return engagements to the Rochester Philharmonic and the Elgin Symphony.

Mr. Kraemer recently completed a highly successful, five-year tenure as associate conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, where he regularly led the orchestra on each of its concert series, including Classical, Pops, Family, education and community engagement programs. A passionate advocate for new music, he has performed the works of many living composers during his career. He has led composer readings and workshops with several orchestras in the United States, in addition to leading the BPO’s Earshot partnership with the American Composers Orchestra in Buffalo for three consecutive seasons. Increasingly recognized for his committed advocacy of music education and his devotion to young audiences, he has created numerous arts education programs and has taught at several music festivals both in the US and abroad. The Buffalo Philharmonic’s award-winning education concerts grew exponentially under his leadership, expanding to reach over 40,000 students throughout western New York. An Indiana native, Mr. Kraemer studied conducting in Vienna, Austria with Salvador Mas Conde and was twice a fellowship conductor at the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. Recipient of the distinguished Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship and the Bruno Walter Career Development Grant, Mr. Kraemer served a residency with the Vienna Philharmonic at the 2006 Salzburg Music Festival. He has additionally participated in the National Arts Center Conductor’s Program in Ottawa, Canada. His conducting teachers include David Zinman, Robert Spano, Stanley DeRusha, and Jorma Panula. Mr. Kraemer is a graduate of Butler University and the University of Nevada, where he assisted former Cincinnati Symphony concertmaster Phillip Ruder. An accomplished violinist in his own right, he was a member of the Nightingale String Quartet. Fluent in German and French, his principal violin teachers include Phillip Ruder, Herbert Greenberg, Davis Brooks, and Larry Shapiro. When he is not performing, Mr. Kraemer enjoys cooking, running, and reading. He and his wife Megan live in Indianapolis with their son Gabriel.

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VIOLIN IWilliam Ronning, Guest Concertmaster*Deborah RodinPamela CloseThomas WatkinsIrina Mueller

VIOLIN IILisa Brooks, PrincipalAlfred Abel, Assistant PrincipalGinny Womack

VIOLACsaba Erdélyi, PrincipalColette AbelByron PlexicoDonna Lively Clark CELLOMarjorie Lange Hanna, PrincipalNancy SmithDennis McCafferty

DOUBLE BASSDavid Murray, PrincipalEmmet Hanick

FLUTEAnne Reynolds, PrincipalSuzanne Farley OBOELeonid Sirotkin, PrincipalPamela French

ENGLISH HORNPamela Ajango

CLARINETEli Eban, PrincipalCandice Kiser

BASSOONKara M. Stolle, PrincipalMatthew Hogan

HORNLee Shirer, Guest Principal

TRUMPETDaniel Golando TROMBONEJared Rodin

HARPWendy Muston

PERSONNEL MANAGERDaniel Golando

STAGE MANAGERAmylou Porter LIBRARIANMarsha Krantz

Nicole DeGuire, ViolinAmanda Baer, ViolinMarsha Krantz, ViolaDanae Witter, Viola

Tamara Thweatt, Flute/PiccoloMichael Borschel, Clarinet

Krista Weiss, Clarinet

Sarah Greene, HornJohn Rommel, TrumpetGerald Noble, Timpani

Murray Mast, PercussionJimmy Finnie, Percussion

Rebecca Sorley, Piano

Additional musicians performing in this evening’s concert include:

Musicians of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra

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Guest Orchestras

2007 – 2015 The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra

1987 – 2006 The Louisville Orchestra

1967 – 1986 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Principal Guest Composers

2015 Carter Pann

2014 Derek Bermel

2013 Evan Chambers

2012 Christopher Theofanidis

2011 Eric Ewazen

2010 Gabriela Lena Frank

2009 Steve Reich

2008 Dan Locklair

2007 David Baker

2006 Augusta Read Thomas

2005 Roberto Sierra

2004 Tod Machover

2003 Stephen Paulus

2002 Chen Yi

2001 Richard Einhorn

2000 Aaron Jay Kernis (PP, 1998; GA, 2002)

1999 Shulamit Ran (PP, 1991)

1998 Michael Daugherty

1997 George Crumb (PP, 1968)

1996 Libby Larsen

1995 Samuel Adler

1994 Karel Husa (PP, 1969; GA, 1993)

1993 Chinary Ung (GA, 1989)

1992 David Del Tredici (PP, 1980)

1991 John Harbison (PP, 1987)

1990 John Corigliano (GA, 1991)

1989 William Bolcom (PP, 1988)

1988 Joan Tower (GA, 1990)

1987 Gunther Schuller (PP, 1994)

1986 Bernard Rands (PP, 1984) Maximo Flugelman Alexina Louie

1985 Joseph Schwantner (PP, 1979)

1984 Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (PP, 1983)

1983 Ned Rorem (PP, 1976)

1982 Jacob Druckman (PP, 1972)

1981 George Rochberg

1980 Martin Mailman

1979 (Sept.) None (Jan.) William Kraft

1978 Barney Childs

1977 Elliot Schwartz

1976 David Cope William Maloof David Baker

1975 David Del Tredici (PP, 1980)

1974 H. Grant Fletcher

1973 Russell J. Peck

1972 No Festival

1971 Michael Colgrass (PP, 1978) Donald Erb

1970 Jon Polifrone

1969 Arthur Custer Ross Lee Finney Nikolai Lopatnikoff Ron LoPresti Elliott Schwartz Laurence Taylor

1968 Leslie Bassett (PP, 1966) Jack Beeson Thomas Beversdorf Thomas Bricetti Roy Travis

1967 Donaldson Lawhead Jon Polifrone Paul Schwartz Donald White Charles Wuorinen (PP, 1970) Richard Yardumian

GA University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award winner and year

PP Pulitzer Prize winner and year

Past Participants

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Guest Performers

2015 Carter Pann, Piano

2014 Minju Choi, piano Derek Bermel, clarinet

2013 Mary Bonhag, soprano; Evan Premo, double bass

2012 Indianapolis Chamber Players

2011 Chicago Saxophone Quartet; The Ambassador Brass

2010 Michael Kirkendoll, piano

2009 Steve Reich Ensemble

2008 Fulcrum Point New Music Project

2007 Ronen Ensemble

2006 Callisto Ensemble

2005 Continuum

2004 John Graham, viola; Omni Ensemble

2003 eighth blackbird

2002 eighth blackbird

2001 Chicago 21st Century Music Ensemble

2000 The Core Ensemble

1999 The Peabody Trio

1998 Present Music

1997 Continuum

1996 American Brass Quintet

1995 Dorian Wind Quintet

1994 Colorado Quartet

1993 Cleveland Chamber Symphony

1992 The Western Wind

1991 Lydian String Quartet

1990 Aequalis; Maro Partamian, mezzo-soprano; James Tocco, piano

1989 The Da Capo Chamber Players Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano

1988 Equilibrium Adam Klein, tenor The Dale Warland Singers

1987 Kronos Quartet

1986 Chicago Jazz Quintet Shari Anderson, soprano

1985 The Percussion Group/Cincinnati

1984 The Chester String Quartet

1983 Nelda Nelson, soprano Arkady Orlovsky, cello Suzuki and Friends (Indianapolis)

1982 Suzuki and Friends (Indianapolis)

1981 The Chester String Quartet

1980 Equilibrium; Diane Kesling, mezzo-soprano

1979 The University of Illinois (Sept.) Contemporary Chamber Players; Paul Schoenfield, piano; Jack Kirstein, cello; Carolyn Fittz

1979 Hank Roberts and the (Jan.) Terre Haute New Creation Ensemble

1978 Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano

1977 Indianapolis Jazz/Rock Ensemble

1976 Gita Karasik, pianist

1975 The McLean Mix

1974 None

1973 None

1972 No Festival

1971 Paul Reed, pianist

1970 None

1969 None

1968 None

1967 Lili Chookasian, soprano

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Composition Contest Winners

2015 None

2014 Michael-Thomas Foumai

2013 Veronika Krausas

2012 Bin Li

2011 Nicolai Jacobsen

2010 Joseph Dangerfield

2009 Lansing McLoskey

2008 Alejandro Rutty

2007 David Dzubay

2006 Karim Al-Zand

2005 Robert Paterson

2004 Andrián Pertout

2003 Ann K. Gebuhr

2002 Mike McFerron

2001 Cindy McTee

2000 Peter Knell

1999 Mark Kilstofte

1998 James Grant

1997 Garrison Hull

1996 Jennifer Higdon

1995 Srdan Dedic

1994 Lawrence Rapchak

1993 Augusta Read Thomas

1992 Daniel Godfrey

1991 David Dzubay

1990 Michelle Ekizian

1989 Jeffrey Hass

1988 John Muehleisen

1987 Stephen Hartke

1986 Timothy A. Kramer Linda Bouchard

1985 Tyler White James Underwood Thomas Ludwig

1984 Julius Burger Eric Stokes Jerry M. Owen

1983 Donald Grantham Larry Stuckenholtz Jan Swafford

1982 Michael Kurek Faye-Ellen Silverman Stephen Suber

1981 Ruth Anderson Ann Gebuhr Scott Meister

1980 Joey Bargsten Maximo Flugelman Stephen Stucky Jordan Tang

1979 Aurelio de la Vega (Sept.) Frederick Fox Sydney Hodkinson Vincent McDermott John Rinehart

1979 Randall Henn (Jan.) Byron Hermann James Hobbs III James Horner William Steinort

1978 Conrad Cummings Arthur Jannery Daniel Kessner Paul Reale Sheila Silver

1977 Will Gay Bottje Simon Carfagno Gerald Plain George Michael Schelle Byron Tate

1976 Robert Barclay Richard Busch Robert Keys Clark Curtis Curtis-Smith Andrew Frank Andrew Imbrie James Morgan Carl Vollrath

1975 James Balentine Priscilla McLean James Riley Greg Steinke Gary C. White Ramon Zupko

1974 David Cope William Dargan Barton McLean Theldon Myers Jeffrey Prater Glenn Spring

1973 Kurt Carpenter Nicholas D’Angelo William J. Maloof Edward J. Miller Pasquale J. Spino Paul Steg

1972 No Festival

1971 Richard Busch Charles Campbell Kurt Carpenter Gordon Goodwin Walter Mayes Paul Turok Paul Whear

1970 None

1969 None

1968 None

1967 None

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Guest Music Critics/Scholars

2004 Mary Madigan, Boosey & Hawkes

2003 Olivia Carter Mather, Jean-Benôit Tremblay, Vincent Benitez, Ralph Lorenz

2002 Brian Sacawa, Paolo Bortolussi, Tom Lopez, Patti Plascak Willey

2001 Daniel H. Foster, Jeongwon Joe, Charles Leinberger, Thomas Handel, Tobias Plebuch

2000 Arved Ashby, American Record Guide

1999 Wynne Delacoma, Chicago Sun-Times

1998 Andrew Adler, The Louisville Courier-Journal

1997 Kyle Gann, Village Voice

1996 David Patrick Stearns, USA Today

1995 Willa Conrad, Charlotte Observer

1994 Scott Cantrell, Kansas City Star

1993 James Wierzbicki, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

1992 James Oestreich, New York Times

1991 Lawrence B. Johnson, Freelance writer

1990 John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune

1989 Tim Page, Newsday

1988 Byron Belt, Newhouse News Service

1987 Nancy Malitz, Detroit News, Gannett News Service

1986 Eric McLean, Montreal Gazette

1985 David Hamilton, Free-lancer

1984 Michael Anthony, Minneapolis Star and Tribune

1983 Robert Finn, Cleveland Plain Dealer

1982 Charles Staff, Indianapolis News Leighton Kerner, Village Voice

1981 Stephen Cera, Baltimore Sun Betty Dietz Krebs, Dayton Daily News

1980 William Littler, Toronto Star James Wierzbicki, St. Louis Globe-Democrat

1979 Lawrence B. Johnson, (Sept.) Milwaukee Sentinel Nancy Malitz, Cincinnati Enquirer

1979 Robert Croan, (Jan.) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

1978 Robert Finn, Cleveland Plain Dealer Karen Monson, Chicago Daily News

1977 None

1976 None

1975 None

1974 None

1973 None

1972 No Festival

1971 None

1970 Charles Staff, Indianapolis News Thomas Willis, Chicago Tribune

1969 None

1968 None

1967 None

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Contemporary Music Festival Committee

Kurt Fowler, Artistic Director, Music Faculty

Paul Bro, Music Faculty

Colleen Davis, Music Faculty

Christa Flores, Music Student, SAI

Brian Kilp, Music Faculty

Randy Mitchell, Music Faculty

Dan Powers, Music Faculty

Erik Rohde, Music Faculty

Libby Roerig, Office of Communications and Marketing

Indiana State University

Daniel J. Bradley, President

Michael J. Licari, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Christopher Olsen, Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

Paul Bro, Director, School of Music

Hulman Center, Tilson Music Hall and University Hall staff

Audio-Visual Services

Office of Communications and Marketing

Program Book

Kurt Fowler, Editor

Jennifer Johnson, Designer

Media

Terre Haute Tribune-Star

WFIU-FM

Grant Support

This activity made possible, in part, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency and Arts Illiana, the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency.

Indiana State University Center for Community Engagement

SAI Philanthropies, Inc.

Indiana State University Sesquicentennial Grant

Acknowledgments

Special Thanks:

To Erik Rohde and Dan Powers for helping adjudicate the Music Now Competition. To Brian Kilp, Dan Powers, and Yana Weinstein for helping to adjudicate the Student Performer/Composition Competition.

To Indiana State University for continued support of this festival.