Matthew Entwistle (composer, ’13) released his first piano album, Wanderer’s Fantasy under the name The Melodist. The album features nine tracks and a collaboration with ZeniF. Entwistle has also release another single since, titled “Miltontown.”
Ayanna Woods (composer, ’16) composed the music and words to the world premiere of Shift, a new film part of The Crossing Votes: 2020; a pre-election project put on by The Crossing Choir, which premiered on November 2nd, 2020. Woods was also part of a group of composers who wrote the opera, FORCE! an opera …
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Carle Jordan Wirshba (composer, ’18) composed a piece titled “The Sailor Moon Fantasy” for Astral Artist Timothy Chooi. The piece will be premiered next season.
Megan Ilhnen (mezzo-soprano, ’13) of Megan Ilhnan & Alan Theisen present… premiered Black Meridian, a theatrical recital of new music with the theme of distortion of space and time around the presence of black holes. The recital is performed in two parts, “Event Horizon” and “Singularity” and features works by Sarah Bareilles, Michael Oberhauser, Jamie …
Shoshana Klein (oboe, ’18) was admitted into the 2021 Global Leaders Program cohort, a program committed to entrepreneurs and cultural leaders comprised of 60 accomplished arts professionals from around the globe. Klein also founded zFesitval, a virtual new music festival committed to creating a community online despite the Covid-19 challenges.
Ava Shadmani is a recipient of the David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts in 2021! Ava is a DMA candidate in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mead Witter School of Music and will use the award to support her research project, “Unheard Voices of Iran.”
Dan Langa (’17) was awarded residency at Fire Island National Park, starting in May 2021. “For the residency I will be creating an electroacoustic work for the park using field recordings I will take during my stay at Watch Hill in the spring. My goal with the project is to explore to relationship between man–made, …
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Maya Miro Johnson (’19, composition) started a new performance art duo with Sarrah Bushara, called ~ [pronounced two]. They are working on both their first large commission with Zeitgeist and a digital concert performance with Fidget. Johnson was admitted as one of the youngest students ever selected for a conducting fellowship at Aspen Music Festival …
Congratulations to Amalia Young, Fresh Inc 2020 violinist, for being a runner-up for the Winifred Small Prize in Solo Violin at the Royal Academy of Music. Listen to her performance of Biber’s Passacaglia below:
Alexa Letourneau, Fresh Inc 2020 composer, has had a lot on her plate since last summer. She opened her own composition teaching studio and is working one-on-one with five new students. She is planning a digital premiere for some of their work at the end of this academic year. Recently, the second movement of her …
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