Media

Students and faculty at MSU engage in creative work in a diversity of mediums and contexts, including acoustic and electronic music, improvisation, real-time interactive performance, video/film, installation, and instrument design.

 

Dance Unlikely (concerto for violin and orchestra) | Ricardo Lorenz

Ojibwe Song | Alexis Bacon 

Petals of Fire (for winds and percussion) | Zhou Tian

Concerto for Orchestra | Zhou Tian

Cyclotron (for winds and percussion) | David Biedenbender

Hub New Music | Spring 2021 Premieres Concert Series

Cassette Studies I & II | Doug McCausland (MM Composition, 2017)

Video 5 (Fragments/Motion) | Edward Stumpp (DMA Composition, 2020)

Feedback (solo clarinet) | Chris Kaminski (MM Composition, 2020)

Variations for Piano | Bronwen McVeigh (BM Composition, 2017)

Ire (for baritone saxophone) | Ryan Jones (BM Composition, 2019)

Nostalgia (for flute, cello, and piano) | Charlie Han (DMA Composition, 2020)

I Find No Peace (soprano, violin, and piano) | Keaton Garrett (MM Composition, 2020)

Piano Trio | Hannah Boissonneault (BM Composition, 2020)

NODE | Kyle Landry (DMA Saxophone with studies in composition, 2018)

Ice Fields – Charlie Cooper (BM Composition, 2018)

Time Gone By (for english horn and string quartet) | Christian Kolo (BM Composition, 2018)

 

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Undergraduate composer Megan Anderson conducts a reading of her work with members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

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The Electronic Music Workshop.
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Student composer workshop with Khemia Ensemble.
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Student composer workshop with Sandbox Percussion. 
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Composition students in free improvisation on a Premieres concert. 

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Professor Ricardo Lorenz, composition students, guest composer Karel Husa, and Professor Emeritus Jere Hutcheson. 
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Undergraduate composer Christian Kolo workshops his music with members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Doctoral student Edward Stumpp performs a work for piano and interactive electronics.
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Workshop with guest flutist Mimi Stillman and pianist Charles Abramovic. 
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Workshop and reading with the MSU Wind Symphony and student composer Christian Kolo.
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Musique 21 with conductor Kevin Noe and guest composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
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Brooklyn Rider with composition students following workshops of their work. 
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Students perform with guest artists Crystal Mooncone.
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Graduate student Sarah Palermo performs her work for bassoon, voice, and electronics.
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Professor Lyn Goeringer with guest artists Crystal Mooncone.
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Professor Ricardo Lorenz with MSU composition students and John Adams at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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MSU student composers with Steven Stucky at Music NOW Festival.
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MSU student composers with guest composer Ricky Ian Gordon and Professor Jere Hutcheson.
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Student composers with guest composer John Corigliano.
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Masterclass with guest composer David Maslanka.