Faculty News Archive

November 2011

• Director of Choral Ensembles Brian Gorelick and students in Wake Forest choral ensembles perform alongside professional musicians in the Munich Symphony Orchestra and Gloriae dei Cantores in Mozart's Requiem as part of the Secrest Artists Series.

• Featured in Wake Forest Magazine: Wake Forest music alum and Harvard University faculty member Andrew Clark ('98) to premiere Professor of Music and Composer-in-Residence Dan Locklair's WINTER (from the forgottens).

September 2011

• September, 2011: Dan Locklair served as Composer-in-Residence for the Carolina Chamber Music Festival, held in New Bern and Morehead City, North Carolina.

June 2011

• June 27, 2011: Dan Locklair's Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, commissioned by the Greensboro Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, premieres on Wednesday, June 29th at 8:00 pm at Christ United Methodist Church in Greensboro, NC. The Concert Organ Gala is part of Eastern Music Festival's Friends & Great Performers Series. The concerto will be performed by organist Susan Bates, with the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Schwarz. See Locklair's interview by the Winston-Salem Journal regarding the new composition.

May 2011

• At the end of the Spring 2011 term, Susan Borwick was the first recipient of the Honor and Ethics Council Faculty Member of the Year Award for Outstanding Service and Commitment to Wake Forest University Judicial Affairs. Borwick has been a member of the Honor and Ethics Council, which hears cases involving the College Honor System, for fifteen years.

March 2011

• March 18, 2011: Louis Goldstein's recording of Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus (Nuscope Recordings) ranked in the top 10 modern composition records of 2010 by The Wire Magazine.

December 2010

• December 6, 2010: Susan Borwick received a grant from the Institute for Public Engagement, Wake Forest, to represent her course in American Music and the IPE at the College Music Society Summit Community Engagement: Music beyond Educational Institutions in January 2011 at Georgia State University.

• Dan Locklair's works broadcast on nationally syndicated radio. Pipedreams broadcast Toccata from In Mystery and Wonder.

November 2010

• Stewart Carter interviewed by the Office of Communications and External Relations, and featured on the Wake Forest University homepage.

October 2010

• The Music of Dan Locklair reviewed in the October 2010 issue of The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians.

• The World Premiere of Dan Locklair's Arise in Beauty took place on Saturday, October 16th at the Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, VA. Click to view the concert program.

September 2010

• Concert Choir featured by Window on Wake Forest
  Reflections on Concert Choir's Italy Tour by Brian Gorelick, Director of Choral Ensembles and Associate Professor of Music

• Dan Locklair's works broadcast on nationally syndicated radio: With Heart and Voice, carried locally over 88.5 WFDD-FM, recently broadcast two of Locklair's works. Originally aired on Sunday, September 19th, the broadcast can be heard here through September 26th. Locklair's Symphony of Seasons (Symphony No. 1) will be broadcast on Sunday, September 26th, by 89.7 WCPE-FM on its Wavelengths program (9:00-10:00 pm EST).

August 2010

• Professor Susan Borwick featured by Window on Wake Forest Music and meaning: Award-winning professor and students live and learn in the community

SUMMER 2010

Susan Borwick was one of twenty-three artists, writers, and composers selected for a residency at Wildacres Retreat Center during the summer of 2010. The 23 were selected from over 150 applicants from North America and England.  Borwick's original composition "Gloria" for SATB choir, children's choir, handbells, and organ was published by MorningStar Music during the summer, as well.

Stewart Carter was awarded the International Tuba Euphonium Association's Clifford Bevan Award for Meritorious Work in Low Brass Scholarship, in recognition of distinguished, life-long research on the trombone and dedicated service as editor. He was also on the faculty of the Early Music at Mideast Workshop, held at LaRoche College in Pittsburgh, PA, and read a paper entitled "A Tale of Bells and Bows: Iconography and the Early Development of the Trombone" at the Historic Brass Society's 26th Annual Early Brass Festival in Northfield, MN.

Louis Goldstein's CD of Morton Feldman's For Bunita Marcus was released by Nuscope Recordings in June 2010, joining his acclaimed recording of Feldman's Triadic Memories. In Goldstein's opinion, Morton Feldman is one of the most important composers of the 20th century. In his long compositions Feldman deals with time in its raw, unstructured sense, "how time exists before we put our paws on it," Feldman famously remarked. With gently shifting patterns over a 67-minute timeframe, this quietly reserved, mesmeric music is well suited to the CD medium. The Nuscope catalog states, "Goldstein's interpretation of Feldman's Triadic Memories is considered one of the best of all of the currently available versions."

Brian Gorelick's Reflections on Concert Choir's Italy Tour was featured by Window on Wake Forest in September, 2010.

David Levy

• gave talks at Chautauqua Institution on Mahler's Third Symphony and Beethoven String Quartets
• wrote notes for Winston-Salem Symphony 2010-11 season classical concerts
  
• chairs Winston-Salem Symphony Artistic Advisory Council
• appointed Program Director for WFU Flow House (Vienna) program

Dan Locklair taught music composition at Yale University in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music during the 2010 Summer Term. Locklair's work was inducted into the International Museum of Peace and Solidarity, Samarkand Republic of Uzbekistan, where his scores and recordings are now permanently on display. A highlight of a July cruise of the Baltic region was a personally guided tour of the house of Finland’s greatest composer, Jean Sibelius, with the honor of playing Sibelius’s personal Steinway piano and an invitation to sign the Ainola International Guest Artist Book.