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New Music Festival at WIU Set for March 3-5

February 27, 2019

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MACOMB, IL -- The 33rd annual New Music Festival will be held in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) Recital Hall at Western Illinois University Sunday-Tuesday, March 3-5.
 
​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 facets of today's new music world.

Concert I: Sunday, March 3, 7:30 p.m. - compositions of Luciano Berio: performed by senior music major Claire Elizabeth Ryterski, soprano, of Columbia, IL; Professor Eric Ginsberg, clarinet; Associate Professor McMurtery, flute; Associate Professor Julieta Mihai, violin; Emily Hart, oboe; and Ashlee Mack, piano.

Concert II: Monday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. - compositions of Robert Honstein, Hong-Da Chin, James Romig and Michael Gordon; performed by guest percussionist Doug Perkins.

Concert III: Tuesday, March 5, 2 p.m. - compositions of WIU Student Composers Crispin Fornoff, a senior music major, of Springfield, IL; Kaleb Rhea, a graduate student in music, of Jacksonville, IL; Sean Klink, a graduate student in music, of Viola, IL; and Joseph E. Feeney, a graduate student in music, of El Paso, IL.

Concert IV: Tuesday, March 5, 7:30pm - compositions of guest composers Kyle Rowan, Daniel Godsil, Amelia Kaplan, Ivette Herryman Rodriguez, Victor Marquez-Barrios and Bruce Quaglia.

The festival's directors are WIU composition faculty members Hong-Da Chin and James Romig.

The scheduled concerts, featuring WIU faculty composers and guest artists, will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 3-Tuesday, March 5, as well as an additional Tuesday performance at 2 p.m.
The performance is open free to the public and will be streamed live on the School of Music's YouTube Channel or the School of Music's Facebook page.

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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