Composition Faculty & Staff

Faculty News

  • Just After The Rain, a work by faculty composer Jon Christopher Nelson, is one of nine works selected by an international jury for Sonic Screens 2011. The work will be performed at O' in Milan, Italy on 26 November 2011. One of the other selected works was Spindlesong by 2007 Bourges/CEMI resident Diana Salazar (Simpson).

  • On 16 October 2011, Old Dominion University will perform faculty composer Joelle Wallach's secular oratorio, Toward A Time of Renewal for orchestra, chorus, and SATB soloists, which will also be featured at the 2011 National Conference of the College Music Society on 21 October 2011.

  • Faculty composer Joelle Wallach will be featured on Voices of Change's opening concert of the 2011-12 season (9 October 2011), with a performance of three chamber works. WRR will record, broadcast, and podcast an interview with Dr. Wallach, as well as several of her works.

  • Jon Nelson received an Honorable Mention in the Música Viva Electroacoustic Competition 2011 for his work Turbulent Blue. The international jury reviewed 179 works by composers from 35 countries; the prize-winning works will be released on CD by Miso Records.

  • Loveletter, postmark San Jose, a tiny tender tuba concerto for euphonium and strings by Joelle Wallach, has been added to the required repertoire list of the euphonium competition of the International Women's Brass Conference and has recently been published by Just for Brass, LLC (Summer 2011).

  • The following UNT composers had their works presented at the 2011 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) at the University of Huddersfield, England (31 July - 5 August 2011): doctoral student Dan Tramte; alumni Da Jeong Choi, Mikel Kuehn, Elainie Lillios, and Yu-Chung Tseng; and former faculty John Mallia.

  • Faculty composer Joseph Klein has been commissioned by the Cornell University Department of English to compose computer music settings of poems by four MFA students in Cornell's Creative Writing Program. Klein will be in residence at Cornell in April 2011, where he will participate in the premiere of these settings, along with a performance of Three Poems from Felt with poet Alice Fulton.

  • Fourteen UNT-affiliated composers have been selected to participate in the SEAMUS 2011 Conference at the University of Miami, 20-22 January 2011: student composers Da Jeong Choi, Greg Dixon, Joshua Harris, Brian Hernandez, Mark Oliveiro, L. Scott Price, and Dan Tramte; alumni composers Elainie Lillios, Stephen Lucas, Ilya Rostovtsev, Kohsuke Tajima, Rodney Waschka, and Chapman Welch; and former faculty member Butch Rovan.

  • UNT composition faculty artist, David Stout, and iARTA research associate, Cory Metcalf, received an honorable mention in the VIDA 13.0 International Art & Artificial Life Competition (sponsored by Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, Spain) for their latest performance, NoiseFold 2.0. Noisefold 2.0 was among 285 projects presented by artists from 39 countries, representing a broad range of technological resources such as autonomous robotics, chaotic algorithms, computer viruses, biotechnology, virtual environments and sound sculptures (Fall 2010).

  • David Stout and Cory Metcalf performed NoiseFold 2.0, a new 3-Screen interactive sound and cinema work on 5 November 2010 at the REDCAT theater in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Alumna composer Christina Rusnak continues to organize the sound art series titled "New Sounds for a New Space" at the Dallas Contemporary, with a program on 7 October 2010 at 7:00 pm. The program includes works by Rusnak, and faculty composers Cindy McTee and David Stout.

  • Works by the following UNT composers were selected for performance at the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in New York City and Stony Brook, NY on 1-5 June 2010: student composer Da Jeong Choi (Reflection in the Glass); emeritus faculty composer Larry Austin (Le flutes de Pan, homage a Debussy); alumna composer Elainie Lillios (Nostalgiac Visions); and past CEMI resident composer Diana Simpson-Salazar (Spindle Song).