March 4, 2025
- The Annual New Music Festival 2025 - Concert III
- Time: 7:30 PM - 8:30 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.
Marilyn Shrude, guest composer/pianist
John Sampen, guest saxophonist
Charlie Chadwell, saxophone
Hong-Da Chin, flute
Christian Jenkins, saxophone
Joseph Kroeck, saxophone
Natalie Landowski, piano
La Folia II: Lacuna (2010) - Marilyn Shrude
- Natalie Landowski, piano
In the Blink of an Eye (2024) - Hong-Da Chin
- Marilyn Shrude, piano
- John Sampen, soprano saxophone
*** premiere performance ***
Solidarność (1982) - Marilyn Shrude
- Natalie Landowski, piano
Watch the Weather Change (2024) - James Romig
- John Sampen, soprano saxophone
- Charlie Chadwell, alto saxophone
- Joseph Kroeck, tenor saxophone
- Christian Jenkins, baritone saxophone
*** premiere performance ***
Notturno: In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu (2007) - Marilyn Shrude
- Marilyn Shrude, piano
- John Sampen, saxophone
- Hong-Da Chin, flute
The Postcard Pieces - Marilyn Shrude
From My Mother’s Land (“Bogurodzica”) (2018)
River Song. A Postcard from the Sichuan Province (2010)
Kantada (2004)
Once again. . . (2020)
Continuum (Postscript ’97) (1997)
- Marilyn Shrude, piano
- John Sampen, saxophone
- Related Web Site: NMF 2025
- Contact Information:
Joanie Herbert
Phone: 309-298-1843
Email: JE-Herbert@wiu.edu - Source: School of Music
