The UT New Music Ensemble is a contemporary
chamber music
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group based at the
University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music (College of Fine Arts). The group has been led by Professor
Dan Welcher since 1979.
Featuring solo, chamber and large ensemble works by living composers and those of the recent past, UTNME presents six full-length concerts annually of new chamber music composed primarily within the past 20 years. This group consists of a sixteen-member core ensemble made up of student instrumentalists and singers at the Butler School of Music.
Since the inception of the Visiting Composers Series in 1995, the ensemble has featured works of four to six world-class guest
composers every year; recent guest composers have included
Samuel Adler,
Claude Baker,
William Bolcom,
Susan Botti
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,
Evan Chambers,
John Corigliano
John Paul Corigliano Jr. (born February 16, 1938) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. His scores, now numbering over one hundred, have won him the Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, an ...
,
Michael Daugherty
Michael Kevin Daugherty (born April 28, 1954) is an American composer, pianist, and teacher. He is influenced by popular culture, Romanticism, and Postmodernism. Daugherty's notable works include his Superman comic book-inspired ''Metropolis Sym ...
,
David Del Tredici,
John Harbison,
Stephen Hartke
Stephen Paul Hartke (born July 6, 1952) is an American composer. Hartke is best known as the composer of ''Meanwhile – Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays,'' winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2013 ...
,
Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Elaine Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. She has received many awards, including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her Violin Concerto and three Grammy Award for Best Contempora ...
,
Lee Hyla,
Lowell Liebermann,
David Maslanka,
James MacMillan,
Thea Musgrave,
Robert Paterson,
Shulamit Ran,
Christopher Theofanidis,
Augusta Read Thomas,
Barton McLean
Barton McLean (born 8 April 1938) is an American composer, performer, music reviewer, and writer.
Life
Barton McLean was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of John and Grace McLean, on April 8, 1938. He graduated from State University of New ...
,
Priscilla McLean
Priscilla McLean (née Taylor; born May 27, 1942) is an American composer, performer, video artist, writer, and music reviewer.
Life
Priscilla Taylor was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the daughter of business manager Conrad Taylor and school ...
,
Michael Torke,
Joan Tower and
Chen Yi. In addition, works by faculty composers
Donald Grantham,
Kevin Puts (former faculty member),
Russell Pinkston
Russell Pinkston (born January 1, 1949) is a professor of composition and the director of the electronic music studios at the University of Texas at Austin School of Music.
Pinkston is both an active composer and a researcher in the field of com ...
,
Yevgeniy Sharlat and
Dan Welcher are performed regularly as well as music composed by local
Austin
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and
Texas composers.
External links
Official site
Utnme
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