Davee Media Library
Lectures and Interviews
Autumn Selover (MM '19) discusses her experience performing with the Contemporary Music Ensemble. Also featured are Contemporary Music Ensemble conductors Alan Pierson and Ben Bolter.
Composition PhD candidate Noah Jenkins discusses his experience writing for, and collaborating with, the Mivos Quartet.
The Institute for New Music functions as the nerve center of all contemporary music activities at Northwestern University.
Jennifer Higdon, winner of the 2018 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, reflects on her first Bienen School residency. The Bienen School of Music welcomed Higdon Oct.
Ben Wulfman ’19 MMus, a master’s horn student of Gail Williams, discusses and prepares for his recital.
An Tran ’23 DMA, a guitar student of Anne Waller, prepares for and discusses his recital.
Mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Barkidjija ’18, ’20 MMus, a student of Karen Brunssen, discusses and prepares for her recital.
Donald Nally uses his role as conductor of both the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble (BCE) and the Grammy-winning professional choir, The Crossing, to commission and perform new choral music with an eye towards social advocacy.