Associate Professor of Music Jason Hoogerhyde’s new work for alto saxophone, Hollow, received its premiere performance at the College Music Society’s National Annual Conference in Spokane, WA, on October 31. The work explores the wide range of the instrument, motivically employing large melodic intervals across that range.

Associate Professor of Music Jason Hoogerhyde’s student Brayden Carr ’23 was an invited participant to the Valencia International Performing Arts Festival, Valencia, Spain, this summer. While there, they participated in composition masterclasses and received a performance of their commissioned work for the Mivos String Quartet. Carr was the winner of an international call for scores from the Rock Mountain Chamber Choir. The choir’s performance of Carr’s work, The Elysian Fields, may be heard here.

Cargill Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Education Alicia Moore and Margarett Root Brown Chair in Fine Arts and Professor of Music Michael Cooper collaborated with pianist Lara Downes to produce a crowdsourced recitation of the Civil Rights “Credo” of W. E. B. Du Bois for the podcast We Need Gentle Truths for Now, hosted by Alexandra Juhasz. Seven SU faculty and staff (Part-Time Instructor of Applied Music Adrienne Inglis, Associate Professor of Music Jason Hoogerhyde, Professor of Music Kiyoshi Tamagawa, Professor of Music Lois Ferrari, Sarofim School of Fine Arts Coordinator Olivia Wise, Assistant Dean for Student Multicultural Affairs Terri Johnson, and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Valerie Renegar), three current students (Alexis Lemus ’22, Grace Sexton ’22, and Shelby Avants ’21), and six alumnae (Erin McHugh ’09, Isabel Tweraser ’19, Julia Fowler ’15, Katiebeth Brandt ’19, Kinley Johnson ’17, and Sara Watson ’13) participated in the recitation, along with 25 other participants Black and white, ages 5 to 81, from the Americas and Europe, representing four native languages. The podcast is available here. The recitation is also available as a YouTube video titled “Testimony: A #BlackLivesMatter Manifesto after the Credo of W.E.B. Du Bois,” here.

Associate Professor of Music Jason Hoogerhyde has published a review of pianist Matthew Odell’s recording Connections: The Music of Olivier Messiaen and his Students (Albany Records, 2019) in the scholarly journal and affiliated digital resource repository College Music Symposium (spring 2020, vol. 60, no. 1).

Associate Professor of Music Jason Hoogerhyde’s composition Revolve/Retract was performed four times by Line upon Line Percussion, with choreography by the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company, November 14–16, at the Ground Floor Theatre, in Austin, TX.