Arts & Culture

Setnor School of Music to Host Society of Composers, Inc. Conference Nov. 4-6

Monday, October 31, 2022, By Erica Blust

The Rose, Jules R. and Stanford S. Setnor School of Music in the College of Visual and Performing Arts will host the 2022 Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) Region II Conference Nov. 4-6.

SCI is an organization that is dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music. The conference is a celebration of contemporary composition, featuring the works of 40 composers from both the local region and across the country. Region II encompasses New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico.

Nilo Alcala

Composer Nilo Alcala G’09

The conference includes six concerts that are open to the public, with music spanning the solo, chamber, electronic, multimedia, choral and orchestral mediums. The concerts will be held on the Syracuse University campus as well as in the Syracuse community in partnership with the Society for New Music and Symphoria, the orchestra of Central New York.

The concerts feature visiting performers as well as Setnor students, faculty, staff and alumni. Composer Nilo Alcala G’09 is a featured guest artist, with three of his choral works programmed on the final Nov. 6 concert. Alcala will also give a pre-concert talk.

The concert schedule is as follows. Tickets are not required unless noted.

  • Friday, Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. Society for New Music, Park Central Presbyterian Church, 504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse. Tickets are required. Music by Paul Richards, Wenbin Lyu, Sami Seif, Jiyoun Chung, Charles Peck, Paul Novak, Octavio Vazquez.
  • Saturday, Nov. 5, 11 a.m. Mixed Chamber and Electronic Music, Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building. Music by Cecilia Suhr, Brittany Green, Devin Cholodenko, Manual Sosa, Neil Flory, Jamie Leigh Sampson, Filipe Leitao.
  • Saturday, Nov. 5, 2:30 p.m. Mixed Chamber and Electronic Music, Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. Music by Andrew Martin Smith, Ivette Rodriguez, Paul David Thomas, Matthew Jaskot, Andrew Walters, Natalie Draper, Mark Zanter, William Vollinger.
  • Saturday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m. Symphoria, Oncenter Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, 421 Montgomery St., Syracuse. Tickets are required. Music by Giacomo Rossini, Dinah Bianchi, Samuel Barber, Ralph Vaughan Williams.
  • Sunday, Nov. 6, 11 a.m. Mixed Chamber and Electronic Music, Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College. Music by Paul Leary, Beth Wiemann, Robert McClure, Eric Heumann, Hubert Howe, Sam Parnin, Sierra Wojtczack, Gregory Wanamaker, Ed Martin.
  • Sunday, Nov. 6, 4 p.m. Music and Message: New Choral Works, Hendricks Chapel. Music by Patrick Vu, Megan DiGeorgio, Carrie Magin, Anuj Bhutani, Michael Rickelton and guest composer Nilo Alcala. Alcala will give a pre-concert talk at 3 p.m.