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Seattle Chamber Players Win CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music
This January, the Seattle Chamber Players were recognized with first prize for an Ensemble dedicated to New Music by the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. The Seattle Chamber Players, featuring Cornish Music Department faculty member Paul Taub, are known for pushing music in new stylistic directions through collaborations and commissions. The award, given jointly by Chamber Music America and ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), marks this contribution.
Cornish Alumna Dawn Cerny at the Henry Art Gallery
Cornish alumna and Print Studio Supervisor Dawn Cerny is currently featured at the Henry Art Gallery in an exhibition entitled, We’re all going to die (except for you). Cerny’s elaborate narrative installations of small drawings and works on paper contemplate present day social and political issues by focusing on parallel moments in history. From the Henry’s collection, Cerny has selected Victorian-era mourning garments and 19th-century landscape paintings to be installed alongside her own work. The ensemble provides an extended meditation on American attitudes toward death, trauma, and war past and present. Cerny will be working in the open studio format during the run of the exhibition which closes on April 27.
The Birth of the New Century Theater Company
The New Century Theater Company (NCTC), a newly developed Seattle based theater company, gave its first performance this January, a reading of Disappeared in the lobby of the Rep. NCTC is made up of a group of established professionals, including Cornish Theater Department faculty Amy Thone, as well as alumni Hans Altwies, MJ Sieber, and Ray Gonzaelz, in addition to Stephanie Timm, Paul Stetler, Jen Taylor, and Michael Patten. Their first full production, The Adding Machine, will be directed by John Langs in the fall.
Breaking Barriers with Composer Frank J. Oteri
The Music Department welcomes composer Frank Oteri for a week-long artist residency this February. Oteri has been hailed as a crusader for new music and is well known for his work as the founding editor of NewMusicBox, a web-based advocacy magazine run by the American Music Center (AMC).
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