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Artists at Work

Date: 2/5/2008; 12:00 to 1:30
Location: Room 2022
202 S. Thayer St.
Ann Arbor
Host Department: Institute for the Humanities

(cosponsor: University Musical Society)
Derek Bermel, composer, New York City
“Making Strings Talk: Writing for the Guarneri Quartet”

Detailed Information
Derek Bermel will talk about the new piece of music, co-commissioned by the University Musical Society, that he composed for the Guarneri Quartet. It will be premièred on Saturday, February 9, at 8 pm, in Rackham Auditorium, 915 E. Washington St, Ann Arbor (for tickets, go to www.ums.org). He will also talk more generally chamber music for strings, sharing a composer’s insight into the inner workings and history of the string quartet.

Derek Bermel earned his DMA from the U-M School of Music in 1997, and is the winner of the 2007 Paul Boylan Award. He comes from New York City, where he is composer-in-residence of the American Composers Orchestra.

Free and open to the public

Contact Information
Doretha Coval
humin@umich.edu
734-936-3518