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New Tunes Competition 2022 March 7-8 at Western
March 3, 2022
MACOMB, IL – The University of Songs at Western Illinois University, will current its 35th annual New Songs Competition 2022 Monday-Tuesday, March 7-8.
The situations that make up the competition will be held in Browne Corridor and in the Higher education of High-quality Arts and Conversation Recital Hall. The pageant is remaining directed by WIU College of Songs Professor James Romig and Assistant Professor Hong-Da Chin, the two composition faculty.
This year’s highlighted performer is cellist Craig Hultgren and the highlighted composer is Baljinder Sekhon.
Hultgren has done as a cellist with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and has taught at Birmingham-Southern Higher education, the College of Alabama Birmingham and the Alabama University of Wonderful Arts. His operate is featured in four solo CD recordings. For 10 many years he created the Hultgren Solo Cello Performs Biennial, an global level of competition to highlight the finest new cello compositions.
Sekhon’s work has been introduced in a lot more than 500 concerts in 20 nations around the world. His vast variety of musical pursuits and kinds for saxophone and percussion devices are regarded as groundbreaking do the job. He is an assistant professor of composition at the University of South Florida and has also served as a percussionist at the L.S. Philharmonic’s Eco-friendly Umbrella Sequence in Walt Disney Corridor, Competition Spazio Musica in Cagliari, Italy and at the Bang on a Can Marathon in New York Town.
“We are really energized that our WIU composition college students have had the chance to perform closely with Craig Hultgren as they labored on producing the compositions he will conduct at this year’s competition,” stated WIU Songs Professor James Romig. “Craig was a guest for past year’s pageant, held above Zoom because of the pandemic, so our students have recognized Craig for a year now and have been emailing scores and recordings back again and forth with him for these previous months. Getting him execute the university student performs below, in man or woman, is the fruits of a ton of difficult get the job done and I know that our composition students will discover and increase from the knowledge of collaborating with a grasp performer who also transpires to be a generous and supportive teacher and advocate for youthful composers.”
This year’s pageant plan involve:
Monday, March 7


• 7:30 p.m., COFAC Recital Corridor: Live performance 1: Hulgren enjoying works by Sekhon, Chin and Romig. This is a recital of is effective for unaccompanied cello, which include earth-premiere
Tuesday, March 8
• 2 p.m., COFAC Recital Corridor: Live performance 2, An open rehearsal with Hultgren, cello – open up to the community.
• 7:30 p.m., COFAC Recital Corridor Concert 3, Hultren taking part in is effective by WIU university student composers Jessica Schaumberg, Hunter Logan Stuart, Garrett Davis, Libbey Lazowski, Alice Müller, Ryan Simester, Adam Nyquist, Mary Bausman, Robin Butler,and Jeremiah Hendricks. The live performance is open up to the community.
“Baljinder Sekhon is a amazing composer and specialist instructor,” explained Romig. “Owning him below on campus is a terrific chance for our music students to hear two of his functions performed on Monday night time, and they’ll also have a likelihood to hear him talk about his compositions, his job, and his teaching solutions throughout in-course shows on Monday and Tuesday.”
The New Music Festival is supported by the Faculty of Music and the WIU Carrying out Arts Culture. For much more details, get in touch with the COFAC Recital Hall workplace at (309) 298-1843 or stop by bit.ly/WIUNewMusic.
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