Congratulations to Barbara White and Juri Seo, both on the Music Department’s Composition Faculty, who have each received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University.
Other recipients this year are Michael Fiday (Cincinnati, OH); Erin Gee (Somerville, MA); Pierre Jalbert, (Stafford, TX); Tonia Ko, (Lawrence, KS); John Liberatore, (Notre Dame, IN); Scott Lindroth, (Durham, NC); Sky Macklay, (New York, NY); Jeffrey Mumford, (Oberlin, OH); Elizabeth Ogonek, (Oberlin, OH); and Hans Thomalla, (Evanston, IL).
Founded by the patron of contemporary music, the late Paul Fromm, the Fromm Foundation is now in its sixty-first year. Since the 1950s, it has commissioned well over 300 new compositions and their performances, and has sponsored hundreds of new music concerts and concert series.