NewMusic Season 17 Archives

columns and lantern
Apr 20, 2017
  • ECU School of Music

PREMIERE PERFORMANCES [April 20, 2017]

ECU School of Music performers focus their talents on the music of ECU composers in these first ever public performances--world premiere performances. This is the third of three concerts each...

clock tower
Apr 11, 2017
  • ECU School of Music

MATTHEW RICKETTS, composer [April 11-12, 2017]

As the composer selected for a commission by ECU students, Matthew Ricketts visits us twice this season to begin the collaborative phase of his commission. He will compose a piano...

clock tower
Apr 02, 2017
  • ECU School of Music

ECU SINFONIETTA [April 2, 2017]

Directed by Scott Carter, the ECU Sinfonietta was formed to collaborate with, and premiere and record a NewMusic Initiative Commission by JAMES MOBBERLEY. Mobberley was chosen during the fall '14 semester...

columns and lantern
Apr 01, 2017
  • ECU School of Music

PREMIERE PERFORMANCES [April 1, 2017]

ECU School of Music performers focus their talents on the music of ECU composers in these first ever public performances--world premiere performances. The second of three concerts each year dedicated...

tree branch with green leaves
Mar 18, 2017
  • ECU School of Music

MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE [March 18, 2017]

The MERIDIAN ARTS ENSEMBLE, a sextet comprised of five brass players and a percussionist, is America’s leading brass group exploring the music of today. Founded in 1987, with nine commercial CD...

string trio playing in a semicircle
Mar 04, 2017
  • ECU School of Music

ECU SYMPHONY [March 4, 2017]

Jorge Richter, director in a program featuring Charles Peck's Mosaic, winner of our 12th Annual Orchestral Composition Competition; as well as Beethoven's Prometheus Overture, Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Overture-Fantasy, and...

clock tower
Feb 16, 2017
  • ECU School of Music

FREQUENCIES [February 16, 2017]

Frequencies is an ensemble created and directed entirely by students. These remarkable members of the ECU School of Music's community make programming decisions, form ensembles, rehearse and prepare works for...

columns and lantern
Jan 26, 2017
  • ECU School of Music

SHARON HARMS, soprano & STEVEN BECK, piano [January 26, 2017]

Tune in to the 7:30pm concert on YouTube. Download the concert program here. Praised as "superb," "luscious-toned," "extraordinarily precise and expressive," and "dramatically committed and not averse to risk" by...

clock tower
Nov 11, 2016
  • ECU School of Music

PREMIERE PERFORMANCES [November 11, 2016]

ECU School of Music performers focus their talents on the music of ECU composers in these first ever public performances--world premiere performances. The first of three concerts each year dedicated...

tree branch with green leaves
Nov 03, 2016
  • ECU School of Music

MATTHEW RICKETTS, composer [November 2-5, 2016]

Matthew Ricketts’s music has been featured on festivals and concerts in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Nebraska, New York, Austin, Paris and Boston, where his Double Concerto shared for first prize at...