New Music Festival

THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL

HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL

About the Festival

The New Music Festival is a celebration of new music, dance, theater and multi-media. Inaugurated as an annual event by Dr. Brian Bevelander, it serves as an opportunity for faculty, students and guest artists to explore new realms of expression in the context of the Heidelberg community. The Festival has grown from two concerts in 1989 to a weekend event drawing on the talents of composers and performers from all parts of the world.

Compositions are selected to give a wide range of styles and musical philosophies. Each year featured guest composers/artists are selected whose music forms the core of the festival. In addition, the featured guests present lectures to theory and composition classes, critique the work of student composers and present master classes and pre–concert lectures for the general public.

This year's New Music Festival is supported in part by The National Machinery Foundation, Robert & Donna Overholt and The Heidelberg Community Engagement Committee.

For schedule and more details, download Festival PDF.

Festival Director

Brian Bevelander, director of the New Music Festival, is Professor of Piano and Composition at Heidelberg University. He received his undergraduate training at the New England Conservatory of Music and Hartt College of Music (BM). He received a MM from Boston University and a DMA in Composition from West Virginia University. Besides teaching at Heidelberg University, he has been the recipient of several composition fellowships, awards and residencies. Many of his electro-acoustic compositions have enjoyed numerous performances in Europe, the United States and Asia. In addition to his electro-acoustic works, his compositions include chamber music, orchestral works, concertos and solo pieces.