04/26/2009

CIM'S NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE PERFORMS APRIL 26

The NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE will perform on CIM's New Music Series on Sunday, April 26 in Mixon Hall at 4:00 p.m. KEITH FITCH, CIM's new head of composition, will present new works by composition students. For more information, visit cim.edu or call 216.791.5000.
Keith Fitch holds the Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition at CIM. Dr. Fitch received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Indiana University. He received the annual Dean's Prize for Composition six times, as well as the Kate and Cole Porter Memorial Fellowship. He has also received three ASCAP Young Composer Awards, three National Society of Arts and Letters awards, an Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fromm Foundation Commission. He has been a resident fellow at The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Charles Ives Center for American Music, and the Atlantic Center for the Art, and has also served as Resident Composer and faculty at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East. Dr. Fitch's works have been performed throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan by many of today's leading ensembles and soloists. Additionally, his music has been heard at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, June in Buffalo Festival, Midwest Composers' Symposium, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Milwaukee PremiereFest, New York's Carnegie and Merkin Halls and in university settings nationwide. Highlights of recent seasons include performances of Dancing the Shadows by the Da Capo Chamber Players and To sleep, to dream by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Sunday, April 26 at 4:00 PM
Mixon Hall
NEW MUSIC SERIES
CIM NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
KEITH FITCH, director
New works by CIM composition students
216.791.5000, ext. 411 or visit cim.edu
 

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