March 4, 2025
- The Annual New Music Festival 2025 - Concert II - Student Composers
- Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Location:
COFAC Recital Hall
- Description: This performance is free and open to the public.
New Music Festival 2025 is made possible by support from the
WIU Performing Arts Society and the WIU School of Music.
This year's featured composer/performer is Marilyn Shrude.
This year's guest performer is John Sampen.
The festival directors are Hong-Da Chin and James Romig.
Since 1988, the annual New Music Festival at Western Illinois University has provided the WIU community the opportunity to hear concerts of recently-composed acoustic and electroacoustic music, curated and performed by WIU faculty and guests. In addition to concerts, the NMF features lectures, panel discussions, masterclasses, workshops, and other interactions between students, faculty, and invited composers that further connect our community to the world of contemporary music.
WIU Composition Studio
WIU Student Performers
Technicality (2025) - Brady Wade
- Sarah Post, flute
Not Really an Echo (2024) - Mattias Luitjens
- Christina Wier, piano
Stretto (2024) - Christina Wier
- two-channel fixed media
Composing a Letter While Trapped in a Damp Cave (2024) - Gabe Schult
- Mattias Luitjens, piano
Dor (2024) - Helena Iacob
- Sadie Thornton, flute
Giovanni's Testimony (2023/2025) - Libbey Lazowski
- Zander Eckerman, tenor
- Jake Van Buren, piano
- Related Web Site: NMF 2025
- Contact Information:
Joanie Herbert
Phone: 309-298-1843
Email: JE-Herbert@wiu.edu - Source: School of Music
