The Lee Composition Showcase in 2023
Lee University School of Music will present its Composition Showcase on Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Squires Recital Hall, in Lee’s Humanities Center.
The showcase promotes student works and provides students with an opportunity to experience sourcing their own performers, leading rehearsals, and hearing their own pieces in a live setting.
The Composition Showcase will feature new acoustic and electronic works by seniors McGraw Eby, Avery Brokish and Vu Tran.
“I am thrilled to participate in this year’s Composition Showcase, an event in which students like myself will showcase original, never before heard pieces that represent the culmination of their own hard work and true artistry,” said Mr. Eby. “As a senior music major with a composition emphasis, I am elated to be premiering my string quartet ‘Cymru,’ a three-movement piece inspired by places I visited in South Wales. This is an opportunity for students to hear unique works by other student-composers like myself and support new music at Lee.”
Other featured music will include “Considerations,” a set of atonal thematic variations for piano by Mr. Eby; “Still Lifes,” a series of electronic pieces by Mr. Brokish; and “Moon,” premiered by Mr. Tran.
The Composition Showcase is a student-led concert that features music by student composers both inside and outside the music composition major. The event is sponsored by the Composers’ Forum, a student-run organization at Lee that seeks to foster creativity and camaraderie among student composers and songwriters.
This concert is free, non-ticketed, and open to the public.
For more information about the concert or Lee’s School of Music, call 614-8240 or visit https://www.leeuniversity.edu/academics/music/.