Year-Long
CUA Composition Events, Academic Year 2024-2025
Please check back with us: visiting artists, degree recitals, and other concert events will be added.
December 2nd, 2024. 3pm, Ward Hall 221. Readings by the 9th Street String Quartet of new string quartets by CUA composition students.
November 14th, 2024. 12:40pm, Ward Hall 139. Composer Jordan Jinosko visits with Rome School Students to discuss her recent work.
November 7th, 2024. 12:40pm, Ward Hall 139. Composer Alex Gardner visits with Rome School Students to discuss her recent work.
CUA Composition Events, Academic Year 2023-2024
Please check back with us: visiting artists, degree recitals, and other concert events will be added.
December 7th, 2023. 7:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area Concert. Works by Rome School composition students and faculty.
April 15th, 2024. 7:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area Concert. Works by Rome School composition students and faculty.
April 24th, 2024. 7:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Concert event with Ensemble-In-Residence Balance Campaign. Students from the musical theater area, CUA composers, and Balance Campaign present The Blake Project: Songs from Innocence and Experience.
Spring 2024. Premieres of student composer-in-residence pieces with select Catholic University ensembles (Christian Lyons with the CUA Symphony Orchestra; James Krom with the CUA University Singers); degree recitals from BM composition students Mary Russman and James Krom; MM Student Michael DeMarco.
CUA Composition Events, Academic Year 2022-2023
Please check back with us: visiting artists, degree recitals, and other concert events will be added.
December 7th, 2022. 7:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area Concert. Works by Rome School composition students and faculty.
January 19th, 2023. 12:40, Ward Hall 139. Guest composer Carlos Simon, composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center and Professor of Music at Georgetown University, speaks to the composition seminar.
January 21, 2023. 7:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Ensemble-in-Residence Balance Campaign presents New Ensemble Scores for Silent Films: Titles from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. All music by CUA composition students, with Dr. Andrew Simpson conducting.
January 29, 2023. 3:00pm, National Gallery East Wing Auditorium. Ensemble-in-Residence Balance Campaign presents New Ensemble Scores for Silent Films: Titles from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. All music by CUA composition students, with Dr. Andrew Simpson conducting.
February 4th, 2023. 7:30pm, John Paul Hall (Ward 220). MM Stage Music thesis production by Matthew Brown.
February 25th, 2023. 7:00pm, Ward Recital Hall. MM Stage Music thesis production by Michael Roll.
March 23rd, 2023. 12:40, Ward Hall 139. Guest composer Gina Zdanowicz, Associate Professor of Composition at Berklee College of Music, owner of Serial Music Lab and author of The Game Audio Strategy Guide: A Practical Course.
April 14th, 2023. 7:00pm, John Paul Hall (Ward 220). Reading session with Ensemble-In-Residence Balance Campaign.
April 20th, 2023. 7:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area Concert. Works by Rome School composition students and faculty.
April 22nd, 2023. 3:00pm, Grace Episcopal Church, 1607 Grace Church Road, Silver Spring, MD. MM Concert Music degree recital by Kris Amundson.
April 25th, 2023. 7:30pm, Hartke Theatre. CUA Wind Ensemble Spring Concert, featured the premiere of Pillars of the Coast, by Composer-in-Residence Kris Amundson (MM Concert Music).
April 29th, 2023. 7:30pm, Hartke Theatre. CUA Symphony Orchestra concert, featured the premiere of DMA Composition student Christian Lyon's Listen to the Wondrous Story.
CUA Composition Events, Academic Year 2021-2022
September 23, 2021. 12:40pm, Ward 139. First meeting between students and Balance Campaign, our ensemble in-residence for the 2021-2022 academic year.
October 7, 2021. 12:40pm, Ward 139. Guest composer Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis in composition seminar.
November 13, 2021. Heritage Hall. Performance of Maddie Booth's MM Composition Stage Music Thesis.
November 20, 2021. James Woods, BM Composition, Senior Recital.
December 3, 2021. 7:00, Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Christmast Concert for Charity, CUA Symphony Orchestra and University Choir. World Premiere of new work for choir and orchestra by DMA student Christian Lyons.
December 7, 2021 3:40pm - 6:30pm, Ward 220. Readings by the CUA Symphony Orchestra.
December 10, 2021. 7:30. Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area Concert. Works by Rome School composition students and faculty.
December 12, 2021. 3:00pm. Ward Recital Hall. Concert by ensemble in-residence Balance Campaign.
February 24, 2022. 7:30pm, Heritage Hall. World premiere performance of BE/COME, by Matthew Brown, graduate student composer-in-residence with the CUA Symphony Orchestra.
March 24, 2022. 12:40pm, Ward 139. Guest composer Dr. Philip Carli in Composition Seminar.
March 24, 2022. 7:00pm, Pryzbyla Center Great Room C. Silent Film with Live Musical Accompaniment by Dr. Philip Carli, piano: When Nighthood Was In Flower (1922).
April 21, 2022. 12:40pm, Ward 139. Reading session for student composers with Balance Campaign.
April 29, 2022. 7:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area Concert. works by Rome School composition students and faculty.
CUA Composition Events, Fall 2020/Spring 2021
Due to the ongoing pandemic, most of our in-person events were canceled for the 2020/2021 academic year. Our composers were still meeting as a group every week for virtual lessons and composition seminar via Zoom, where our composition projects included Plague Songs (fall 2020), Found Percussion (spring 2021) and Reinterpretations (spring 2021). We also hosted the following guests: Scott Day, CFO of Sound Exchange; and composers Chen Yi and Skip LaPlante.
CUA Composition Events, Spring 2020
February 12th, 2020. 8pm. Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area Concert, featuring new works by faculty and student composers in our programs.
February 20th, 2020. 7:30pm. Canadian Embassy. New work by faculty composer Robert A. Baker, featuring the Catholic University Symphony Orchestra.
February 21st, 2020. 6:00pm. Kennedy Center Millenium Stage. New work by faculty composer Robert A. Baker, featuring the Catholic University Symphony Orchestra.
April 15th, 2020. 8pm. Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area guest ensemble: Quattri.
April 26th, 2020. 3pm. Caldwell Auditorium. Premiere of a new work by BM Composition student Evan Brende with the CUA Wind Ensemble.
CUA Composition Events, Fall 2019
September 4th, 2019. 6:30pm - 8:30pm, John Paul Hall. Student meet-and-greet with other arts students. Screening of Koyanisqatti.
September 14th/15th, 2019. Ward Hall. The Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art hosts the District New Music Coaltion's 2019 New Music DC conference.
November 12th, 2019. 7:30pm, St Vincent's Chapel. Degree Recital, MM Concert Music, Benjamin Yuly.
November 14 - 17, 2019. 7:30pm and 2:00pm. Hartke Theatre. MM Stage Music student Maddie Booth featured as composer for the main stage production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
December 6, 2019. 7:99pm. Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Premiere of MM Concert Music student Tobias Russell's Nobiscum Deus by the Catholic University Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
CUA Composition Events, Spring 2019
February 7th, 2019. 12:40pm, Ward 139. Guest composer Ashi Day presents on her music.
February 29th, 2019. 12:40pm, Ward 139. Guest composer Jimmy Lopez presents on his music.
March 7th, 2019. 12:40pm, Ward 139. Guest speaker Joy-Leilani Garbutt gives a presentation on her research and work as co-founder of the Boulanger Initiative.
March 18th and 20th, 2019. 11:10am, John Paul Hall. Chamber Choir Readings. Student readings with the CUA Chamber Choir, directed by Dr. Timothy McDonnell and Sacred Music graduate students.
April 24th, 2019. 5:00pm, St. Vincent's Chapel on the CUA campus. Repertory Chorus Concert. New pieces for chorus by CUA composition students, led by CUA conducting students.
April 24th, 2019. 7:15 - 9:00pm, John Paul Hall. Brass Ensemble Readings. Student readings with the CUA Brass Ensemble, directed by Dr. Jeff Cortazzo.
April 25th, 2019. 12:40pm, Ward 139. Guest composer Joao Ripper presents on his music.
April 25th, 26th, 27th at 7:30pm, April 27 and 28th at 2pm. Hartke Theatre. Sophocles' Antigone, with original music by faculty composer Andrew Simpson; music direction by MM student Madeleine Booth.
April 27th, 2019. 3:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Degree Recital, BM Composition Rebecca Nisco.
May 5th, 2019. 3:00pm, Caldwell Auditorium. Wind Ensemble Concert. World premiere by student composer-in-residence Tobias Russell (MM).
CUA Composition Events, Fall 2018
November 29th, 2018. 12:40pm, Ward Hall Room 139. Guest composer Douglas Boyce at the CUA composition seminar.
December 7th, 2018. 7:30pm, Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. World premiere of MM composition student Ben Yuly's choral/orchestral work In Dulci Jubilo, as part of the annual Christmas Concert for Charity.
December 10, 2018. 7:30pm, Ward Recital Hall. Composition Area Recital. New works by CUA student and faculty composers.
Past Events:
CUA Composition Events, Spring 2018
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21 | 12:40 PM | Guest Composer Masterclass: George Walker | Ward 139 |
| Feb 21 | 7:30 PM | Guest Composer Lecture and Concert: George Walker | St. Vincent Chapel |
| Feb 28 | 8:00 PM | Composition Academic Area Recital: works by CUA student and faculty composers | Ward Recital Hall |
| April 9 | 7:00 PM | Undergraduate Degree Recital: Gabriel Jaar | Ward Recital Hall |
| April 13 | 1:00 PM | Concert Spirituel, featuring the premiere of "Salve Regina" by MM composition student Ben July | St Vincent's Chapel |
| April 22 | 3:30 PM | CUA Wind Ensemble concert: premiere of a new work by student composer-in-residence Ben Yuly. Richard Roberts, conductor | Caldwell Auditorium |
| April 23 | 7:30 PM | Third Millennium Ensemble | Ward Recital Hall |
| April 25 | 7:30 PM | CUA Brass ensemble concert: premiere of a new work by Undergraduate student Evan Brende | Ward Recital Hall |
CUA Composition Events, Fall 2017
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23 | 7:30 PM | Guest performance by Newprism Ensemble featuring solo and chamber works by Boulez, Ran, Widmann, Kirkland Snider, Baker, and Read Thomas. Directed by CUA faculty member, R. A. Baker. | Ward Recital Hall |
| Nov 8 | 12:40 PM | Guest Lecture: Sarah Robinson, author of " Clubbing for Classical Musicians" and founder of LA's Helix Collective and Co-director of LA's chapter of Classical Revolution, on event production and outreach. | Ward 139 |
| Dec 1 | 7:30 PM | Annual Christmas Concert for Charity, featuring the premiere of "Hush" by DMA Composition major Valencio Jackson | Basilica |
| Dec 6 | 8:00 PM | Joint Composition/Piano Academic Area concert: Schumann's Kinderszenen and new group composition, Scenes from CUA | Ward Recital Hall |
| Dec 11 | 11:10 AM - 12:15 PM | Choral readings of student pieces by the CUA Chamber Choir, conducted by Dr. Timothy McDonnell and CUA conducting students | JPH |
| Dec 11 | 4:10-7:00 PM | CUA Symphony Orchestra readings of student compositions, led by students of Maestro Simeone Tartaglione | JPH |
CUA Composition Events, Fall 2015
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 18 & 19 | tba | 24-Hour Musical: Center Stage annual production of new music-theater scenes composed and performed within 24 hours | Ward Recital Hall |
| Oct 30 | 8:00 PM | Amanda Bono DMA Composition Recital | St. Vincent's Chapel |
| Nov 11 | 12:30 PM | SONAR New Music Ensemble Composer Readings Session (Enrolled Students only: Composition Seminar) | Ward |
| Dec 2 | 12:30 PM | Guest Composer Lecture: Dr. Linda Dusman (Enrolled Students only: Composition Seminar) | Ward |
| Dec 4 | 7:30 PM | Annual Christmas Concert for Charity, featuring the premiere of a newly commissioned choral-orchestral work by CUA Faculty, Robert A. Baker | Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception |
| Dec 11 | 4:00 PM | Composition Day 2015: an afternoon of Composition Academic Area activities and presentations by currents faculty and students | Ward |
| Dec | 7:30 PM | Composition Academic Area Recital | Ward |
CUA Composition Events, Spring 2015
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25 | 5:00 PM | Senior Composition Recital: Matthew Yost (BM '15) | Ward Recital Hall |
| Feb 20 | 7:00 PM | Stations of the Cross: 14 New String Quartets | Church of the Little Flower, Bethesda, MD |
| Mar 31 | 7:00 PM | New Morse Code Duo in concert: new works for cello and percussion | Ward Recital Hall |
| Apr 17 | 7:30 PM | Composition Academic Area Spring recital | Ward Recital Hall |
| Apr 23 | 5:00 PM | String Orchestra Student Composition Reading Session | John Paul Rehearsal Hall |
CUA Composition Events, Fall 2014
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov14 | 7:00 PM | Composition Academic Area Fall Recital | John Paul Rehearsal Hall |
| Nov 18 | 4:00 PM | String Orchestra Student Composition Reading Session | John Paul Rehearsal Hall |
| Dec 5 | 7:00 PM | Annual Christmas Concert for Charity, featuring the premiere of a newly commissioned choral-orchestral fanfare by Jeff Cortazzo (DMA, 4th year) | Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception |
| Dec 6 & 7 | 9:00 PM | First Light - a new musical by CUA composer, John Tafone (BM '16) | Ward Recital Hall |
CUA Composition Events, Spring 2014
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24 | 8:00 PM | New Voices @ CUA | Ward Recital Hall |
| Jan 25 | 8:00 PM | New Voices @ CUA | Ward Recital Hall |
| Feb 24 | 3:40 PM | Jacqui Horner Guest Artist Premieres three new works by CUA student composers | John Paul Rehearsal Hall |
| Apr 5 | 7:30 PM | Composition Academic Area Spring Recital | Ward Recital Hall |
| Apr 29 | TBA | String Orchestra Student Composition Reading Session | John Paul Rehearsal Hall |
CUA Composition Events, Fall 2013
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 14 | 7:00 PM | 24-Hour Musical Project performance | Ward Recital Hall |
| Oct 12 | 7:30 PM | Ensemble Next Parallel concert | Ward Recital Hall |
| Nov 9 | 7:30 PM | Composition Academic Area Fall Recital | Ward Recital Hall |
| Nov 21 | 2:10 PM | Student Composers' Reading Session (CUA Contemporary Music Ensemble) |
John Paul Rehearsal Hall |
| Dec 6 | 7:00 PM | Annual Christmas Concert for Charity, featuring the premiere of a newly commissioned choral-orchestral fanfare by Erik Abrahamson (MM, 2nd year) | Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception |