The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present
ASHLEY FURE LECTURE
Jean Macduff Vaux Composer-in-Residence
Guest composer Ashley Fure gives a free public talk about her work.
Friday, February 9, 2018
12:00 noon
Littlefield Concert Hall
Free and open to the public
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Ashley Fure: “Something to Hunt”
https://youtu.be/XJIFXT2qlXY
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Ashley Fure
Called “raw, elemental,” and “richly satisfying” by the New York Times, Ashley Fure’s work explores the kinetic source of sound, bringing focus to the muscular act of music making and the chaotic behaviors of raw acoustic matter. She holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University and joined the Dartmouth College Music Department as an Assistant Professor in 2015. A finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music, Fure also won a 2017 Rome Prize in Music Composition, a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2016 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists, a 2015 Siemens Foundation Commission Grant, the 2014 Kranichsteiner Composition Prize from Darmstadt, the 2014 Busoni Prize from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, a 2014 Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship from Columbia University, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship to France, a 2013 Impuls International Composition Prize, a 2012 Darmstadt Stipendienpreis, a 2012 Staubach Honorarium, a 2011 Jezek Prize, and a 2011 10-month residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude. Her work has been commissioned and performed by major ensembles at festivals throughout Europe and the United States. Notable recent projects include The Force of Things: An Opera for Objects, an immersive intermedia opera commissioned by ICE for the 2016 Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik; Bound to the Bow, for Orchestra and Electronics, commissioned by the 2016 New York Philharmonic Biennial; and Feed Forward, for large ensemble, commissioned by Klangforum Wien for the 2015 Impuls Festival.
http://www.ashleyfure.com/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/arts/music/chains-clink-water-splashes-a-composers-beautiful-noise.html?ref=arts&_r=0
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Cost: Free