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"0689" by Marjorie Halloran ('15 MC)

2015 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 2/13/15 by Aliana de la Guardia (soprano), Carrie Cheron (mezzo soprano), Alex Nishburn (tenor), Jonathan Nussman (baritone)

"New York Subway" by Amanda Laven ('16 MC)

2016 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 8/9/15 by Gregg August (bass), Rick Bassett (keyboard), David Cossin (drums), Fung Chern Hwei (violin), Ken Thomson (clarinet & saxophone)

"In Dreams" by Ben Lieberman ('19 MC)

2019 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 8/3/17 by Anna's Ghost – Kamala Sankaram (soprano), Red Wierenga (piano), Jim Whitney (bass), Brian Adler (drums)

"Minstrel Medley" by Vanessa Littrell ('19 MC)

2019 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 8/3/17 by Anna's Ghost – Kamala Sankaram (soprano), Red Wierenga (piano), Jim Whitney (bass), Brian Adler (drums)

"Pazernov" by Stephanie Meyers ('16 MC)

2016 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 8/5/16 by Ken Thompson (clarinet), Russ Johnson (trumpet), Red Wierenga (accordion), Gregg August (bass)

"imagined interaction" by Jesse C. Mitchell ('17 MC)

2017 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 8/7/15 by members of Talujon Percussion – Ian Antonio, Matthew Gold, Michael Lipsey, Matt Ward

"Pandemonium in clave for Percussion and Piano" by Aruán Ortiz ('18 MC)

2018 MFA in Music Composition

"Fado Portugal" by Craig Pallett ('15 MC)

2015 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 2/11/14 by Piano Trio – Jennifer Choi (violin), Yves Dharamraj (cello), Stephen Gosling (piano)

"The Hennepin Shake" by Kyle Pederson ('17 MC)

2017 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 2/9/17 by Anna Webber (flute), Gregor Huebner (violin), John Benthal (guitar), Patrick Swoboda (bass), River Guerguerian (drumset), Kyle Pederson (piano)

Garrett Steele on Scoring Music to Animation ('16 MC)

2016 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 8/6/15 by members of Talujon Percussion – Ian Antonio, Matthew Gold, Michael Lipsey, Matt Ward

Garrett Steele discusses developing a new score to the 1912 animated short film "How a Mosquito Operates," which is one of the earliest animated films of record and directed by animator Winsor McKay.

https://youtu.be/60mQsG9vyOQ

"Vultures" by Bradley Turner ('17 MC)

2017 MFA in Music Composition

Performed on 8/7/16 by Elizabeth Bates (soprano), Kirsten Sollek (alto), Eric Dudley (tenor), Steven Hrycelak (bass)

Bradley Turner (17 'MC), Eric Sample ('18 MC) & Philip W. Riegle ('17 MC)

"Four Dioramas of Conversations between two people who were NEVER ACTUALLY TOGETHER OKAY as remembered by a biased narrator who lacks the self-awareness to be ashamed of the pathetic nature of his inclination toward hopeless romanticism" by Bradley Turner (2017 MFA in Music Composition)

"The Death of My Dog Foxy" by Eric Sample (2018 MFA in Music Composition)

"SAGE/Sapphire" by Philip W. Riegle (2017 MFA in Music Composition)

Performed on 2/9/17 by The City of Tomorrow – Elise Blatchford (flutes), Stuart Breczinski (oboe & English horn), Rane Moore (clarinets), Nanci Belmont (bassoon), Leander Star (French horn)

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