Updates
- The Department of Music welcomes new additions to their faculty
The Department of Music is pleased to announce recent additions and changes to our faculty. Chiharu Naruse, a beloved applied instructor of piano at Bates since 2008, has been appointed in the newly created position of Bates’ Collaborative Pianist. In addition to continuing to teach piano lessons, Chiharu will lead students in performance workshops and… - VIDEO: BITTERSWEET NOTES FROM VILLAGE CLUB STUDENT MUSICIANS
It didn’t replace the feeling of performing before friends and fellow students in the warm confines of the Benjamin Mays Center at Bates. But it still felt good, said Maddie Hallowell ’20 of North Haven, Maine, after performing for a Zoom-based installment of the long-running Village Club Series, a staple of campus entertainment offered by… - MULTIMEDIA: THREE DAYS WITH ART AND ARTISTS, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS IN OLIN ARTS CENTER
At the dedication of Olin Arts Center in 1986, the late Carl Benton Straub, then dean of the faculty, said that “none of us will ever know the countless moments of discovery and self-discovery which will occur in and around this place.” - Faculty Spotlight | Connecticut College’s Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology Presents: [Re]Generation
Asha Tamirisa’s work “ARTIFACT” is a sculptural installation motivated by the connections between textiles and electronics, communication technologies and computational media. The piece literally weaves textiles and electronics materials into a singular tapestry. By bringing together these seemingly disparate materials, the work illuminates the shared technical and labor histories between these materials and technical processes. - Q&A: ‘WE’RE MADE TO COMMUNICATE WITH SONG,’ SAYS JOËLLE MORRIS, NEW CHOIR DIRECTOR
Are you ever tempted to tell a younger person that they can’t sing? Well, don’t. “They retain that. And then for the rest of their lives, they believe that they can’t sing,” says Joëlle Morris, the new director of the Bates College Choir. - Faculty Spotlight | MUSICAL FIRSTS TAKE MIURA FROM PRAGUE TO THE LEFT COAST AND SHAKUHACHI TO SHAMISEN
Composer and Bates music professor Hiroya Miura already had plenty on his plate when a music festival in the Czech Republic made him, as they say, an offer he couldn’t refuse. - Momenta Quartet returns to Bates as Artist-in-Residence in Music for 2019-20
Momenta Quartet will join Bates’ Department of Music as Artist-in-Residence for the 2019-2020 academic year. The quartet has performed for, and worked with, our students numerous times over the years, and we are delighted that they have agreed to step into this role. About Momenta QuartetEmilie-Anne Gendron and Alex Shiozaki, violinsStephanie Griffin, viola; Michael Haas,… - Dr. Asha Tamirisa joins us as Assistant Professor of Music Composition
The Bates College Department of Music is pleased to welcome Asha Tamirisa, who will be joining their faculty beginning fall of the 2019-2020 academic year. She will be teaching courses in digital music and hardware design, music theory, and interdisciplinary courses in music and technology. Asha Tamirisa is a time-based media artist working with sound… - Joëlle Morris Appointed Visiting Lecturer in Music, and Director of Bates College Choir
We are thrilled to announce that Joëlle Morris, an applied voice instructor at Bates College, has been appointed Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Music. Beginning in the Fall of 2019, she will teach courses such as Intro to Music, in addition to instructing practical musicianship labs. Joëlle will also conduct the Bates College Choir,… - The Department of Music welcomes Carl Bettendorf as a Visiting Lecturer and Director of the College Orchestra
We are pleased to announce that Carl Bettendorf, a New York based conductor/composer, will be a visiting lecturer in the Department of Music for the 2019-20 academic year. He will be teaching courses in composition and music theory, as well as conducting the College Orchestra. Carl C. Bettendorf is a New York-based composer/conductor. Born in… - Q&A: DALE CHAPMAN ON NEOCLASSICAL JAZZ IN A NEOLIBERAL ECONOMY
The Jazz Bubble by music professor Chapman draws surprising parallels between conservative schools of jazz and political economy. - Alumni News | Illinois music professor awarded Carnegie Fellowship
Illinois ethnomusicologist Michael Silvers has been awarded a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He’ll use the fellowship to research a book that will examine the connections between aesthetic, cultural, environmental and political histories and instrument-making using Brazilian natural resources. - Frank Carlberg returns as Artist-in-Residence in Music for 2018-19
For the 2018-19 academic year, Frank Carlberg, a Finnish-born, New York jazz pianist and composer, will return to Bates Music Department as Artist in Residence. During his last residency at Bates in 2015-16, he directed the Guest Artist Ensemble (MUS 290I), which culminated in “Space Is the Place: The World of Sun Ra.” The… - Alumni News | Kramer ’95 to perform ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!’
About 40 years after the premiere of “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” — Frederic Rzewski’s piano composition based on a populist Chilean song — John Kramer ’95 is taking the 50-minute piece on the road in Massachusetts and Maine. - Alumni News | Pianist Duncan Cumming ’93 to perform tribute to Frank Glazer
A pianist and member of the music faculty at the University of Albany, Duncan Cumming ’93 honors his Bates teacher and mentor, the late pianist and artist-in-residence Frank Glazer, with a tribute concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. - Alumni News | For Fort Kent native and Bates alum, all’s well in Metropolis
Andrew Cyr admits, it feels really good to be right. The Fort Kent native and Bates College graduate began the Manhattan-based Metropolis Ensemble seven years ago for the single purpose of giving young classical music composers a chance to be heard. So far, it’s worked out well.