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thomas wells, featured guest composer Thomas Wells, who studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kent Kennan and Hunter Johnson, is a member of Duo Contemporain, a viola and piano duo that specializes in the performance of contemporary music, and a professor of music theory and composition at The Ohio State University. His compositions have been performed by major orchestras in the U.S., and his computer music compositions have been performed internationally. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Pennsylvania Arts Council and the Texas Commission for the Arts, and was recipient of the 1990 Governor's Award for Outstanding Individual Artist in Ohio. Dr. Wells's reviews and articles have appeared in The Journal of Music Theory, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society and Computer Music Journal and he has been active in national and international conferences. His music has been recorded on CRI, and his book, The Technique of Electronic Music, was published in 1981. |
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benjamin sung, violin Benjamin Sung is Concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, and is a faculty member at both North Dakota State University and Minnesota State University-Moorhead. He is also Artistic Director of ClefWorks, a music and arts festival in Montgomery, Alabama, and Director of the Cheryl Nelson Lossett Performing Arts Series of Minnesota State University. Mr. Sung received his Doctor of Music and Masters of Music degrees from Indiana University, and received his Bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music. He is the winner of the Starling Prize from the Eastman School of Music, and the Violin Fellowship of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has served as Assistant Concertmaster of the Lucerne Festival Academy under Pierre Boulez, performed in the Carnegie Hall premiere of John Adams's Chamber Symphony with Mr. Adams conducting, conducted a residency for the composition department of the University of Louisville with the Arsenal Trio, and appeared with the National Repertory Orchestra as soloist for the Chaconne from the Red Violin by John Corigliano. This spring, he will perform the Violin Concerto of Philip Glass with the University Symphony Orchestra of Minnesota State, and appear in recitals of 20th-century works at St. Olaf College and Gustavus Adolphus College. |
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jihye chang, piano Jihye Chang was recently chosen as the winner of first annual Yvar-Mikhashoff pianist-composer commissioning project with composer Derek Johnson, and will appear in a solo concert featuring the new piece written by Johnson in Buffalo, NY, in spring 2009. She recently recorded music of Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite for the Centaur label, and has appeared as a guest artist for the new music festival at the University of Louisville and The Promising Artists of the 20th/21st- century in San Jose, Costa Rica. Her other commercial recordings were released by Sony/BMG Korea and Seoul Recording. Jihye was a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center during the 2004 and 2005 seasons, where she received the Henry Kohn Award for outstanding achievement. She has also received an Honorary Fellowship from the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Prize of the Samick Piano Competition in Seoul, Korea, full merit scholarship and the president's award from Seoul National University. She received her Bachelor's degree Summa cum laude from Seoul National University, and her Master's and Doctoral degrees from Indiana University, where she studied with György Sebök, Reiko Neriki and Edward Auer. |