BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Faculty Artist Series: Jeremy Ruthrauff\, Tenor Saxophone and Mischa Zupko\, Piano X-WR-TIMEZONE:Central Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T124915Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_3982915 DTSTART:20190302T020000Z DTEND:20190302T030000Z DESCRIPTION:Tenor Madness!\n\nJacob Tv (b. 1951)\nMay this Bliss Never End (2007)\n\nChristian Lauba (b. 1952)\nHard (2010)\n\nJeremy Ruthrauff (b. 1 968)\nSpectrum\n 1. Inivitation\n 2. Gateways\n 3. Scale\n 4. Fountain\n 5. Stone\n 6. Ajna\n 7. Pheonix\n\nBetsy Jolas (b. 1926)\nEpisode Quatrieme (1994)\n\nArturo Fuentes (b. 1975)\nPlexus (2 009)\n\nMischa Zupko (b. 1971)\nWorld premiere of a new work for tenor sax ophone and piano (2018)\n\n \n\nJeremy Ruthrauff\nJeremy Ruthrauff is a sa xophonist\, composer/improviser and teacher based in the Chicago area acti ve in the concert\, jazz and experimental music arenas. \n\nFreelance work involves regular performances with numerous prominent ensembles such as t he Chicago Symphony Orchestra (including regular concerts at Symphony Cent er\, the MusicNow contemporary music series\, and performances at the summ er Ravinia festival)\, Lyric Opera of Chicago\, Chicago’s Grant Park Sym phony Orchestra\, Chicago Opera Theater\, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra \, Chicago Contemporary Chamber Players (Contempo)\, Eighth Blackbird\, F ulcrum Point New Music Project and the Chicago Saxophone Quartet. \n\nHe h as given solo and chamber music performances at prestigious venues through out the United States and in Europe such as Merkin Hall in New York City\, the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro\, Italy\, the Ojai Music Festival (guest art ist with the Grammy award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird)\, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art\, Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicag o\, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre\, and the Renaissance Society. He was recently featured as a soloist on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s cont emporary music concert series MusicNow performing Jason Eckardt’s work T angled Loops for soprano saxophone and piano.\n\nJeremy has premiered nume rous new works by leading composers\, including recently the world premier e of Jacob TV’s multimedia opera The News with Fulcrum Point New Music P roject as part of the Off the Wall concert series at the Andy Warhol Museu m in Pittsburgh.\n\nHe has been invited to give master classes at leading institutions such as the New England Conservatory of Music\, American Comp osers’ Forum\, University of Illinois\, and others. Recently\, he parti cipated in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s program Harmonia at the Nati onal Museum of Mexican Art in which soloists introduced music to children from Chicago’s Pilsen and Little Village neighborhoods.\n\n\nMischa Zupk o\nMischa Zupko’s honors include first place in the Pacific Symphony Orc hestra’s ‘AMERICAN COMPOSER’S COMPETITION’\, first place in the Lo udon Symphony’s American Composer Competition\, the Lee Ettelson Compose rs Award from Composers Inc.\, co-winner of the USA International Harp Com petition Composition Contest\, three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Aw ards one of which was the first place Kaplan Award\, the ‘First Music’ award from the New York Youth Symphony\, the Ruth and Emil Beyer award fr om the National Federation of Music Clubs\, awards from the Bloomington Ch apter of the National Society of Arts & Letters\, the Jacob Druckman prize from the Aspen Music Festival\, a CAP grant from the American Music Cente r\, Dean’s Prizes from Indiana University and finalist in the Rome Prize Competition. \n\nMr. Zupko’s commissions include those from the Minneso ta Orchestra\, the Pacific Symphony\, the St. Olaf Symphonic Band\, the Ba rlow Endowment\, the Fromm Foundation\, the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival\, the Music Institute of Chicago and the New York Youth Symphony . In addition\, he has collaborated closely with several virtuoso instrume ntalists including pianists Winston Choi and Lori Simms\, violinist Minghu an Xu\, saxophonist Timothy McAllister\, harpsichordist Bradley Brookshire \, flutist Thomas Robertello\, harpist Maria Luisa Rayan\, and organ/saxop hone duo Doug Cleveland and Fred Hemke. In a more commercial venue\, he ha s had the opportunity to work with Cortina Productions in scoring a short film exhibit that exists as a permanent installation at the new Indiana St ate Museum and with the Lilly Company in producing musical demos to promot e a new product.\n\nMr. Zupko remains active as a performer. As a pianist\ , he has performed in a number of venues playing his own works as well has the works of his peers and more standard literature. Among his performan ces include those with the Indiana University New Music Ensemble\, solo an d collaborative performances at the Mayslake Peabody Estate in collaborati on with PianoForte and on the Fulcrum Point New Music series. He has also conducted several ensembles\, including the well-known Chicago Virtuosi c hamber orchestra.\n\nMr. Zupko was appointed the 2010-2011 composer-in-res idence with Chicago’s own Fulcrum Point New Music Project. He also serv es as the composer-in-residence with the Music Institute of Chicago where he runs an innovative new program for young composers called the Composers ’ Lab. In addition\, he holds teaching positions at DePaul University\, Roosevelt University\, and Trinity Christian College and directs the musi c program at the Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Northfiled\, IL. LOCATION:Gannon Concert Hall SUMMARY:Faculty Artist Series: Jeremy Ruthrauff\, Tenor Saxophone and Misch a Zupko\, Piano URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.depaul.edu/event/faculty_artist_series_jeremy_ ruthrauff_tenor_saxophone_and_mischa_zupko_piano CATEGORIES:Performances END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR