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Robert D. MorrisProfessor of CompositionChair, Composition Department Affiliate faculty, Musicology and Theory Departments Recent Engagements: Performances of Wildlife (oboe, piano, and percussion), Ode (piano) and Out and Out (clarinet and piano) CUBE Contemporary Music Ensemble, Renaissance Society, Chicago, 7 pm, June 9, 2005. Guest Composer. Heidelberg Contemporary Music Festival, Tiffin, Ohio, April 22-24, 2005; Master class; Performances of Wye: Lynes Composed for Tinturn Abbey (soprano and computer generated sounds), Raudra (flute solo) and Traces (flute and piano); Public lecture: "Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire." "Towards a Buddhist Music: Precursors East and West," Alfred University Sibley Lecture, April 26, 2005; New York University Composition Symposium, April 13, 2005. "Some Thoughts on my Music and its Poetics," Music Department, University of Maryland, March 5, 2005. Performance of Cuts (for large wind ensemble), United States Marine Band, Captain Jason K. Fettig, conductor, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, March 6, 2005. Performance of Entanglements (viola and computer-generated sounds) John Graham, Faculty Artist Series, Kilbourn Hall, January 25, 2005. Performance of Meandering River, Fang-Tzu Liu, piano, Cambrian College, Sudbury, Canada, January 26, 2005; National Concert Hall, Taipei, Taiwan, June 19, 2004; Hsin Chu City Concert Hall, Taiwan, May 30, 2004. Guest Composer, University of Ohio at Bowling Green, Dec. 2-3, 2004; Performances of Hamiltonian Cycle: Saxophone (alto saxophone), Wye: Lynes Composed for Tinturn Abbey (soprano and computer generated sounds), Raudra (flute solo) and Traces (flute and piano); Master class. "Aspects of Post-Tonal Canon Systems." National Convention of the Society of Music Theory, in Seattle, Washington, Nov. 12, 2004. Residency at the music department of the University of Chicago, May 3-7, 2004: Composition Symposium (on Safety in Numbers), Ethnomusicology Class, paper, "Crowns: Rhythmic Cadences in South Indian Music" in Ethnoise seminar, Theory Seminar (on Schoenberg s Opus 23, 3) and paper The Survival of Serious Music: Musical Citizenship in South India. Composition Master Class, Northwestern University, May 7, 2004. Participant in Radcliffe Seminar at Harvard University on "Presenting Music," April 27-8, 2004. Composition Symposium (on Safety in Numbers and Cold Mountain Songs) Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca., March 11, 2004. Composition Symposium (on Après vous) University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fl. February 13, 2004. "Music in India and the West," University of Mysore, India, Jan 2, 2004. |