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New Music Festival March 5-6 at Western

March 1, 2018

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MACOMB, IL -- The 32nd annual New Music Festival will be held in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) Recital Hall at Western Illinois University Monday-Tuesday, March 5-6.
 
​The New Music Festival provides a unique opportunity for the community and region to hear new music and meet recognized composers and performers. The events of the two-day festival have been designed to provide an opportunity to experience and understand the music of our time.

Since 1988, the festivals have programmed about 500 compositions and the event highlights the University's fine performing faculty; guest artists, composers and performers; and faculty and student composers in lectures, concerts, and workshops that explore the many exciting facets of today's new music world.

For the New Music Festival 2018, the two featured composers are Anthony Donofrio and Bruce Mahin,​ and the ​featured pianis​t​​ is WIU Professor Emeritus Michael Campbell.​ The festival will also feature works by WIU faculty composers James Caldwell, Paul Paccione, James Romig and John Mindeman.

The festival is co-directed by ​Caldwell, Paccione and Romig, WIU composition and theory faculty.

The scheduled concerts, featuring WIU faculty composers and guest artists, will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday-Tuesday, March 5 and 6, with a lecture/recital featuring Michael Campbell at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 6.
 
All events are open free to the public. For more information about the festival, visit wiu.edu/cofac/newmusicfestival/about_festival.php.



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