October 2021 College News

1 Dr. Joey Martin, Dr. Richard Novak, and Dr. Ames Asbell at the College Music Society’s Annual National Conference 2 Te Texas State Mysterium for New Music Ensemble heading to the College Music Society’s Annual National Conference 3 Te Texas State Mysterium for New Music Ensemble heading to the College Music Society’s Annual National Conference 12 | October | College News MUSIC Music, Music Studies, Per formance, & Sound Recording Technolog y FACULTY ACCOLADES Dr. Lynn Brinckmeyer participated in the recent CoSearch retreat, sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and Communication. Te team she served on, Famila First!, received the frst place award for outstanding research project. Dr. Dimitar Ninov, senior lecturer of Music Teory & Aural Skills, read an invited paper at the largest music theory conference in the world, EUROMAC (European Music Analysis Conference), in Moscow, on September 23, 2021. He also saw the premiere of a new composition for clarinet and piano at the New Bulgarian Music Festival, Sofa, Bulgaria, October 7, 2021. On October 7th, Dr. Richard Novak (tenor), Dr. Ames Asbell (viola), and Dr. Joey Martin (piano) performed selections from Kevin Salfen’s and Rick Davis’ newly composed song cycle, “Stations of Mychal” at the College Music Society (CMS) National Conference in Rochester, New York. [1] In September, Dr. Alec Scherer , assistant professor of Music Education, presented two research posters “Undergraduate Choral Conducting Courses: Examining Students’ Practice Behaviors and Instructors’ Pedagogy” and “High School Band Directors’ Perceptions and Applications of Democratic Rehearsal Procedures in Concert Band Rehearsals” at the virtual 2021 Symposium on Music Teacher Education. Te Society for Music Teacher Education, which hosts the biennial conference, was founded in 1982 as one of the Societies of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Dr. Scherer and his team was recently awarded 2nd place at the 2021 CoSearch event hosted by the Texas State Center for Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity. Dr. Scherer’s team was comprised of 6 Texas State faculty members from 4 diferent colleges. Aurora Voce's recording of Marie-Claire Saindon's “You Are the One,” from the spring 2021 semester has been selected to be posted on the Hal Leonard website as a model performance of her song. STUDENT ACCOLADES Te Texas State Mysterium for New Music Ensemble recently performed in Rochester, NY, at the College Music Society’s (CMS) Sixty-Fourth Annual National Conference in association with the Association for Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI). Te performance titled “Beautiful Sounds,” was a laptop septet soundscape celebrating the sights and sounds of the San Marcos River. Te work was composed and realized by all members of the ensemble and consisted of sectionalized, structured improvisations utilizing recorded sound-samples taken from the San Marcos River. Tese samples were performed via real-time manipulations on certain parameters with real-time controlled digital video art. Ensemble members included senior Luke Frost and graduate students Stephen Adkisson, Stephan Arce-Penedo, Adam Koch, Ella Pedrozo , and Tomas Torres . Te ensemble is directed by Senior Lecturer of Music Richard D. Hall. [2 & 3] Te Florida Orchestra gave the world premiere of Michael Ippolito's new work, a la fenestra , which was commissioned for the orchestra’s opening weekend of concerts for the 2021-2022 season. Ippolito found inspiration for his new work in the Covid environment, and linked it to Petrarch’s poem about love during another epidemic, the Black Death. Te music is abstract, but suggests the poet sitting at an open window, a lone voice waiting to connect with others during a troubled time. Scored for strings, percussion and three brass ensembles that were placed around the theater, Ippolito depicted the isolation many experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the urge to reach out and connect across distance. A LA FENESTRA College of Fine Arts and Communication | 13