HWS COMPOSER'S SANDBOX-Faculty Concert Showcase
Join us for a special faculty concert during Reunion Weekend featuring extraordinary compositions by four distinguished composers from our Hobart and William Smith Composer's Sandbox Summer Intensive program.
THE EVENING WILL SHOWCASE WORKS BY:
MARK OLIVIERI, Associate Professor of Music at Hobart and William Smith, whose music has been performed at Carnegie Hall and featured on NPR.
MARC MELLITS, acclaimed composer and associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago and one of the most performed living composers in the United States.
JENNIFER JOLLEY, Associate Professor of Music and Composition at Lehman College, whose work explores the intersection of music and provocative subjects like climate change, #MeToo, feminist history and political abuses.
EVAN WILLIAMS, Berklee College of Music faculty member whose music exploring social justice themes has been performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
The Composer's Sandbox Summer Intensive gives emerging composers a unique opportunity t o study with these renowned faculty while developing new works with musicians from the acclaimed Society for New Music.
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