Music Composition

IN MEMORIAM: Dr. Steven Strunk, Ordinary Professor, passed away suddenly on Feb. 20, 2012.  Extraordinary composer, performer, scholar.  A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 10:00 AM in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, adjacent to the CUA campus.

Brian Rice, DMA student in Composition, will be a guest composer at the College of Music of University of the Philippines-Diliman on March 6. 

NEW VOICES @ CUA Festival.  The 2nd annual New Voices festival takes place January 20-21 on the CUA campus.  Organized and run by CUA composition students, New Voices brings in composers from across the USA and abroad for performances of vocal music in various styles: art song, sacred, cabaret, and more.  The Great Noise Ensemble, the School of Music's new music ensemble in residence, is participating again in the festival this January. 

For more information, visit the New Voices @ CUA website.

CUA COMPOSERS IN PERFORMANCE

Winter-Spring 2012 Performances
 

Fall 2011 Performances
Please look for more listings here and on the calendar of events.

The Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival hosts two CUA composers' works on Labor Day weekend.  MM Stage Music student Andrew Morrissey's thesis-in-progress Life is but a Dream, and scenes  faculty member Andrew Earle Simpson's new chamber opera The Outcasts of Poker Flat.  Saturday, Sept. 3, 1:00 PM, Millennium Stage South.  Admsision free.

CUA Composition Division Fall Recital.  Monday, Nov. 21, 2011, Ward Recital Hall.

New Voices @ CUA: A very successful student-run, two-day festival of vocal music, which debuted in 2010, takes place for a second year in January 2012: !