Alumna Sky Macklay Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

Sky Macklay (M.M. in Music Composition, 2012) has been awarded with a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship. Upon completion, she will be joining the composition faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, at John Hopkins University. “She is one of the most prominent composers of her generation,” said Mahir Cetiz, Assistant Professor of Composition and Music Theory…

Tolga Yayalar: Guest Lecturer in Composition Seminar

Date and Time: April 27th @ 4 PM CST Zoom link: https://memphis.zoom.us/j/81382933925?pwd=ZmRvNnk2WGhhcWpDWXppc3gwN244QT09 Tolga Yayalar  was born in 1973 in Istanbul and started music in high school by playing electric guitar in rock and jazz bands. After finishing high school, he studied Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has majored in jazz composition, studying mainly…

Yoshiaki Onishi: Guest Lecturer in Composition Seminar

April 13th @ 4 PM CST Zoom link: https://memphis.zoom.us/j/86481050019?pwd=d3pmUUI5WGlmZkVPcE41eGFQU1FBZz09 Japanese-American composer, conductor, and clarinetist Yoshiaki Onishi received his doctorate in music composition from Columbia University in 2015 and is currently the Postdoctoral Fellow in Music Composition at the University of Missouri, serving as Assistant Conductor for the Mizzou New Music Ensemble. As a composer, he is interested…

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