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Jonathan Mann's lo-fi musical exploits landed him in the news again last month when he was named winner of Microsoft's first-ever "Bing Jingle Contest."
Music faculty member Bruce Williamson can be heard performing the jazz classic "Bye Bye Blackbird" with Diana Krall on the soundtrack for Public Enemies, a new movie starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard. He also played on the soundtrack for the recent PBS documentary, Antonia Pantoja 隆Presente!
Jonathan Mann '04, who has been posting a new song every day on his , was featured in and , and appeared on MSNBC recently after about Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman was viewed hundreds of thousands of times on YouTube.
Bennington guitar teacher and composer has earned a 2008 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award from the for his arrangements and performance on flutist 's new album, .
The June 22 issue of The New York Times Magazine features a personal essay by music faculty member Allen Shawn.
Joan Tower '61, one of America鈥檚 preeminent composers won three Grammy Awards for her orchestral composition "."
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This photo contest brings those experiences to life. Students use #FieldWorkTerm to share photos of themselves making, working, and learning to tell the story of their unique work exploration over Field Work Term.
Nicholas Brooke creates music across disciplines, from collages of recordings with live theater, to home-built instrumentariums inspired by gamelan. He has received Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and New Music USA fellowships and premieres at the Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto, and MASS MOCA.
Jen Allen is a pianist, composer and author. She frequently performs in New York, the Northeast US and in venues throughout the world, as the leader of her own groups or as a member of other creative music ensembles.
Virginia Warnken Kelsey, mezzo-soprano, is internationally celebrated for her heartfelt and dynamic interpretations of Baroque opera, oratorio, and contemporary chamber music. She maintains an active career in an adventurous assortment of musical and artistic settings.
Composer, writer, and director who fashioned a unique style of socially engaged musical theatre
Photograph 漏 Jack Mitchell (New York Times)
Executive director of The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation, a philanthropy dedicated to improving the lives of patients and their families through nurse-led innovation, and a member of the board of directors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Internationally acclaimed jazz musician and theorist Milford Graves has been the recipient of honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Down Beat International Award, and the Critics Award. Photo credit: Noa Ben-Amotz
Nathaniel Reichman '98, immersive mixer and producer, crafts three-dimensional audio experiences in music and film. He has produced Grammy-winning albums with artists ranging from John Luther Adams to Deadmau5, and is committed to advancing both the art and science of recorded music.
Matthew Edwards is the piano instructor for the student that wants to learn multiple styles of music including classical, blues, jazz, and pop styles.
Nathaniel Parke is a regional freelance cellist and is also on the faculty of Williams College.
Suzanne Thorpe is an award-winning electroacoustic flutist and composer, as well as a researcher and educator, whose work migrates between fixed, improvised, performed and installed forms. She employs an evolving array of technologies, listening for sound qualities and timbres, and moments to introduce them to each other. Drawing upon traditions of soundscape, land art, and improvisation, as well as research in new materialism, environmental ethics and systems inquiry, she composes works that reference the dynamic relationships between sound, place and its inhabitants.
Since 1972 William Parker has been a significant figure in the world of black music. He has contributed to the language of improvisation as a valid form of musical composition.
Grammy Award-winning vocalist Thann Scoggin has thrived on the cutting edge of the contemporary new music landscape as well as the historically-informed performance practices of the nation鈥檚 finest early music ensembles. He is particularly interested in the juxtaposition of refined and pristine vocal sounds against the often guttural sounds found in many folk and popular traditions.
Kerry Ryer-Parke '90 performs in a range of musical styles, from oratorio, opera, and early music to folk, jazz, and rock, in addition to directing the Bennington Children鈥檚 Chorus and Bennington Voice Workshop.
Pictured: Singer Mira Cook performing at Rubulad. Projections by the Sperm Whale. Photo: Briee Della Rocca.
Grammy-winning American composer hailed by The New Yorker as 鈥渙ne of the most successful woman composers of all time鈥
Joseph Alpar's research focuses on the anthropology of music in Turkey and the Middle East, and the relationships between music, spirituality, modernity, marginalization, social expression, and identity.
Violinist Joana Genova is active as a chamber musician, teacher, orchestral player and a soloist. She is Co-Artistic Director of Taconic Music in Manchester, VT and the second violinist of The Indianapolis Quartet.
Pianist whose performing career has taken her from The Kennedy Center to tours of Europe, Japan, and South America
Curtis Wells turned a degree in engineering into an expertise for fixing electronics and optimizing audio gear鈥攕kills he puts to good use in his support of faculty and student work in music.
Brian Chase is a Brooklyn based drummer and composer active as a performer in contemporary rock and experimental music communities.
