Tag: Indiana University

You can’t help feeling a sense of awe when encountering Tyron Cooper. Cooper is a man of extraordinary talents, possessing a masterful skill on the guitar and a rich, expressive singing voice. Words by Kyle Long, adapted from NOTE Magazine. Film Scores …

5 Helpful Tips for Teaching High Notes on Clarinet and Saxophone Written by Shawn Royer As a Yamaha Performing Artist and Vandoren Artist Clinician, I typically work with many young clarinetists and saxophonists each year in sectionals and masterclass …

Musical Mountains Legends: After A Lifelong Reputation As A Master Flute, James Pellerite is Still Climbing. Words by Tom Alvarez Adapted from NOTE Magazine Up until a year ago, Pellerite lived in Bloomington, Ind., where he taught flute at Indiana Uni …

Los Angeles-born conductor Leonard Slatkin has led an award-winning career, conducting orchestras all over the world. Slatkin has received six Grammy awards and 33 nominations and is a recipient of the prestigious National Medal of Arts. Slatkin also h …

Canadian Brass performs at Clowes Auditorium November 19 with the Butler University Wind Ensemble. One member of this esteemed brass ensemble, Jeff Nelsen, is an adopted Hoosier: he’s on the faculty at the IU School of Music. He recently talked with Mi …

In the early 1980s two enterprising women set out to design and build the perfect timpani. Rebecca Kite and Barbara Allen met when both were graduate students at Indiana University (IU), Bloomington. They believed that they could improve upon timpani a …

Jamie Barton is a current mezzo-soprano on the international rise in Opera. Barton grew up loving to sing and share bluegrass with her family. That love grew to exploring what else the music world had to offer. Cover Photo by Stacey Bode. Jamie Barton: …

In honor of Women’s History Month, we asked Lauren Kapalka Richerme, Assistant Professor of Music Education at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, to profile two female innovators in the field of Music Education. Read below about Francis Elliot Clark and Patricia Shehan Campbell, two women who have had profound influence on the lives of children and the promotion of music as a key to educational success.

There’s a subversive joy in being black and achieving excellence in a field from which black people were traditionally excluded. For black classical musicians and composers, staking a claim in the classical genre means looking up to white composers – m …

My Music. My Story. is one of Classical Music Indy’s initiatives to feature music, musicians, and music lovers in a fun way. This week we talked with cellist Maya Nojiri Sutherland who regularly performs with Classical Music Indy. She moved to the US to continue her music education and is currently pursuing her PhD at Indiana University Bloomington. Read Maya’s thoughts on music, life, and community below.

This week we spoke with John Alvarado, President of the Indianapolis Society of the Classical Guitar, about how his organization brings the centuries-old art of classical guitar to today’s Central Indiana.