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Graduate student composers achieved numerous impressive accomplishments this year, including a world premiere with the Cincinnatti Symphony Orchestra, a Fulbright Fellowship, and more. Continue reading below to learn about several of these accomplishments.
![Hunter Brown headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/hunter.jpeg?itok=wpYWgtjt)
Hunter Brown
Commissions
— Piece for solo carillon and electronics, Joey Brink/Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
— Piece for open instrumentation, Ensemble Dal Niente
Significant Performances
— Premiere of new collaborative work at Line Upon Line Composer festival with Dominic Coles, 2021
— Several performances at High Desert Soundings and Indexical with Other Plastics, 2021
— Premiere of new work at Big Ears Festival with Ken Vandermark and Ensemble Dal Niente, 2022
— Premiere of new sextet with electronics with Hunter Brown, 2022
![Darlene Castro Ortiz headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/darlene.jpeg?itok=3ZImpJnN)
Darlene Castro Ortiz
Significant Performances
— Two performances on the Ear Taxi Festival (Carillon and Electronics, and Flute and Electronics), 2021
Commissions
— Piece for Fonema Consort, 2022/23
— Piece for Masso Saxophone Quartet
Other
— I Care If You Listen ListN Up feature, 2022
— FluCoMa podcast feature, 2022
![Baldwin Giang headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/baldwin.png?itok=gc5pJhmZ)
Baldwin Giang
— Fulbright Fellowship, 2022, Awarded Open/Research: Creative & Performing Arts Grant to Taiwan for 2022-23
Awards
— Verdent Vibes Call for Scores Winner, 2021, awarded for muzzle
— Gaudeamus Award, Nominee, 2021, selected as one of five finalists to compete for the Gaudeamus Award in Utrecht, September 2022
— Loadbang Commission Competition, First Prize Winner, 2022, awarded for songs after sufjan
Commissions
— Music in Bloom Festival Ensemble, Fidelio Descending, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2021
— Metropolis Ensemble, this distance between us, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, New York, 2021
— Playground Ensemble, butterfly, posthumously, Mercury Café, Denver, CO, 2022
— Gaudeamus Muziekweek, my axe, my gun...my wayward son, Ensemble But What About, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2022
Festivals & Residencies
— Midwest Graduate Music Consortium, Call for Scores Winner, Northwestern University, 2022, awarded for you in me, me in you
— IRCAM ManiFeste: Conducted Ensemble Workshop, Composition Participant, Paris, 2022. Commissioned to write new work for Ensemble Intercontemporain, conducted by Jean Deroyer
— New Jersey Symphony Edward T. Cone Institute, Composer Fellow, Princeton, NJ, 2022. to remember is always forgetting to be premiered by the New Jersey Symphony, conducted by David Robertson.
![Alison Yun-Fei Jiang headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/alison.png?itok=SntxJAiI)
Alison Yun-Fei Jiang
— Appointed RBC Affiliate Composer, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, 2022-24
Significant Performances
— Sanctuary (2020), premiere performance by Esprit Orchestra, conducted by Alex Pauk, 2022
— Stray Birds (2021), premiere performance by the National Centre Orchestra of Canada's principal woodwind quintet, 2021
Residencies
— Carrefour Composer-in-Residence with the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada, 2021-22
![Maria Kaoutzani headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/Maria.jpeg?itok=T39xLreO)
Maria Kaoutzani
Significant Performances
— Nine Mothers, written with members of Kinds of Kings, premiered by Eighth Blackbird and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Louis Lagree, 2022
— Count Me In premiered by ~Nois, Long Play Festival, New York, New York, 2022
— Piece recorded for album Kinds of ~Nois by ~Nois and Kinds of Kings
![Gabriel Novak headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/gabe.jpeg?itok=Xcs9qNEJ)
Gabriel Novak
— Visiting Assistant Professor, Cleveland Institute of Music, Music Theory Department, 2022-23
Significant Performances
— languor | torpor for string quartet, world premiere by Quatuor Diotima, 2022
— death is a drum beating forever, recorded by Plena Libre, 2021
— spur for brass quintet, New York premiere by Calliope Brass Quintet, 2022
Fellowships and Faculty Appointments
— Graduate Fellow, Arts, Science + Culture Initiative, University of Chicago, 2021-22
— Faculty, Young Composers Program, Cleveland Institute of Music, 2022
— Faculty, Skyline High School Choir Summer Program, Interlochen Center for the Arts, 2022
![Paul Novak headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/paul.jpeg?itok=9d-r3Y7D)
Paul Novak
Awards
— American Academy of Arts and Letters, Charles Ives Scholarship, 2022
— National Association of Composers of the USA Composer Competition, First Place, 2022
— Cortona Prize, Winner, 2022
— RED NOTE Composition Competition, Winner and Runner-Up, 2021
— Lake George Music Festival Composition Competition, Winner, 2021
— Loop38 Composer Collaborative, Selected Composer, 2022
— Ensemble CONCEPT/21 Call for Scores, Selected Work, 2022
— Quatuor Lontano Call for Scores, Winner, 2022
— Florida State University Festival of New Music Call for Scores, Selected Work, 2021
— ScoreFollower Call for Scores, Selected Work, 2021
— Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award Competition, Honorable Mention, 2021
Residencies & Festivals
— soundSCAPE Festival, 2022
— Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Residency with Blackbox Ensemble, 2021
— Copland House CULTIVATE Emerging Composer Institute, Fellow, 2021
— I—Park Foundation Artists-in-Residence Program, 2021
Commissions
— New work for Voice and piano, Lynx Project - Amplify Series, 2023
— entwining for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, Music from Copland House, 2021
— reflected tides for soprano and ensemble, Blackbox Ensemble 2021
Significant Performances
— dialogues in black and white (2019) and dances and prayers in isolation (2020) performed by Wesley Ducote at New World Center
— as the light begins to drift (2019) for sinfonietta performed by faculty at Illinois State University
— dialogues in color (2022) for string orchestra, piano, and percussion premiered at UChicago, conducted by Justin Weiss
— almostdances (2022) for string quartet premiered by Quatuor Diotima
— birds, the binding of (2022) for high vocal quartet premiered by Quince Ensemble
— prisms and mirrors (2021) for pierrot ensemble performed by Blackbox Ensemble; Cortona Collective; Boston New Music Initiative
— reflected tides (2021) premiered by Blackbox Ensemble at New Music Gathering; performed in New York in 2021
— a string quartet is like a flock of birds (2020) performed by Quatuor Lontano, Lake George Music Festival
— glimmersongs (2020) for pierrot ensemble performed by Polymorphia, FSU Festival of New Music
— marking punctuations (2018) for string quartet performed by Loop38
— entwining (2021) performed by Music from Copland House; Ensemble CONCEPT/21
— interlocutor (2021) performed by MingHuan Xu, Anthony DeVroye, Nick Photinos, and Winston Choi
![Andrew Stock, headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/andrew.jpeg?itok=fOlxgKFj)
Andrew Stock
Commissions
— Electronics piece with reader for "Beuys at 100," Goethe-Institut / Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry
— New work for piano trio, OvAnima Trio (Frankfurt/Lüneburg, DE)
Significant Performances
— Guest lecture and performance workshop, Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History, 2022
— Work for voice, ensemble, electronics, Fonema Consort, 2022
![Kari Watson headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/kari.jpeg?itok=6NdYswS9)
Kari Watson
Awards
— American Academy of Arts and Letters, Charles Ives Scholarship, 2022
— Broadcast Music Industry Student, Composer Award for Sandbox Percussion and Ekmeles project, 2022
Commissions
— Trio for Axiom Brass, Brass Legacy commission, 2022
— NOVA New Music Series Commission from the Constellation Men’s Ensemble, 2022
Residencies
— Virginia Center for Creative Arts, 2021
![Justin Weiss headshot](https://humanities-web.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/music/prod/styles/max_325x325/s3/2022-07/justin.jpeg?itok=fXb4_gWD)
Justin Weiss
Awards
— ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Finalist, 2021
— MGMC Call for Scores Winner, 2022
Commissions
— Valencia International Performance Academy and Festival, Commission and Attendee, 2022