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| STALLMANN RECEIVES FROMM COMMISSION Office of News and Media Relations Jennifer Evans Media Relations Specialist Email: jevans@rice.edu Shepherd School of Music composer Kurt Stallmann has been named one of 14 national recipients of a $10,000 Fromm commission, one of the most highly sought honors in contemporary composition.
Stallmann, the Lynette S. Autrey Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory and director of REMLABS, Rice Electronic Music Labs, specializes in electro-acoustic compositions and his work has been performed throughout the United States and Europe. Most recently, he premiered ³SONA: Sounds of Houston: Wind, Rain and Trains,² a multi-media work that combines music for string quartet with live computer processing, video of East Coast trains with the sounds of Gulf Coast trains, computer generated sounds using falling rain as rhythmic models and natural wind ‹ including a special appearance by Hurricane Rita. This full-scale performance was held in December at DiverseWorks ArtSpace with his collaborators, the Enso String Quartet and filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti. The work was made possible through the support of DiverseWorks and an individual artist grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County. Before coming to Rice in 2002, Stallmann was an assistant professor of music and the associate director of HUSEAC, the electro-acoustic composition studios at Harvard University. He also founded and directed the Computer Music Studio at the Longy School of Music and served on the faculty at the Boston Conservatory of Music in the Dance Division, where he designed a multi-disciplinary course on music and choreography. His compositions have been performed by the New Millennium Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, Mendelssohn String Quartet and the Cleveland New Music Associates and have appeared as part of the Boston Conservatory Performance Series, NuClassix concert series, the Composer in Red Sneaker Series, and at various festivals in Europe. Among other grants and commissions Stallmann has received are the ASCAP Annual Awards, American Music Center, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Dinosaur Annex Ensemble and the CrossSound Festival in Alaska. His current commission, a new work for electronics and the New World Trio, a chamber ensemble in Hartford, Conn., is scheduled for a premiere in April. |
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